A description of the experiences of a poet-soldier who was posted to Palestine in 1941 with a cavalry regiment. This book tells how he disobeyed orders, and drove a truck to the sight of the battle and participated as a tank commander.

A Siberian permafrost hell lost in endless nights, the perfect setting for an underground Russian research station. It's a place so secret it doesn't officially exist; once there, the scientists are forbidden to leave. But one scientist is desperate to get a message to the outside world.

A collection of the author's essays on architecture. It discusses a range of topics including conservation battles, modern architecture and the author's passion for railways.

Describes farming experiences, the author's marriage, and becoming habituated to country life.

Returned from twenty years of travelling in China, Marco Polo now languishes in a Genoan prison cell. But his fellow inmate, Rustichello of Pisa, turns out to be an author of popular romances and persuades Polo to dictate his memoirs to him. This fiction queries the nature of authorship, readership, and truth itself.

In 1770 the 17-year-old poet Thomas Chatterton, tormented by a sense of failure, committed suicide in his garret room. Within a few years he was transformed into a legend. This title explores the development, pervasiveness and astonishing persistence of the Chatterton legend, throwing light on the writers and artists who admired him.

An anthology of the twentieth century poems.

Celebrates 150 years of courage, energy, innovation, resourcefulness and grand ideas, from the late 17th century to the early 20th. This book discusses about seafarers, engineers, inventors and trailblazers who enabled the British to hold together a vast empire and the Americans to push their frontiers west.

Offers a critical and polemical survey of English fiction. This book dismisses Lawrence Sterne for his 'irresponsible trifling'.

A car mowing its way through Flaxborough market dramatically signals the presence of fearlessjournalist - Clive Grail, bent on uncovering scandal in that town's quiet respectable back streets. In answer to published hints of revelations to come, the mayor issues a challenge of a bloodcurdling and - as Inspector Purbright explains - illegal nature.

Tells the story of how the Marvell Press, a small publishing company, became a chapter in literary history when, in 1955, the then novice publishers, of which Jean Hartley was one, were entrusted with the manuscript of Philip Larkin's The Less Deceived .

Presents a varied conspectus of A J P Taylor's shorter writings on the nineteenth-century.

A survey of taste, design, and style of British architects and craftsmen from 1600 to 1830, including not only Sir Christopher Wren, Sir John Vanbrugh, William Kent and other great English architects, but also the craftsmen - the clockmakers, the silversmiths, the bookbinders, and the weavers of tapestry of this period.

Includes essays on British Prime Ministers from Sir Robert Walpole to Anthony Eden; How Wars Begin; How Wars End; The Congress of Vienna and, one of his more unlikely heroes, Lord Beaverbrook.

Anthologizes 'the variety and vigour' of the thinking and writing of the Enlightenment. This book examines the way that reason and imagination intertwined, or collided head on, in the period.