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The return to Camelot: chivalry and the English gentleman
Hardback. English.
Published
New Haven; London: Yale, 1981
Uppies and downies: the extraordinary football games of Britain
Paperback. English.
Published
Swindon: English Heritage, c2008
Association football - or 'soccer' - is the world's most popular sport. Yet, in Britain, there remains around 15 traditional versions of football, many...
The line of beauty
Hardback. English.
Published
London: Picador, 2004
Picking up at the point in time where 'The Swimming-Pool Library' left off, 'The Line of Beauty' traces the further history of a decade of change and...
Before the war
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Head of Zeus, 2016
Consider Vivien in November 1922. She is 24, and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and - worse - intelligent. At nearly...
I'll go to bed at noon
Hardback. English.
Published
London: Chatto & Windus, 2004
A follow-up to Gerard Woodward's previous novel 'August', this title charts the disintegration of Colette Jones' entire immediate family through alcohol...
Sense and sensibility
Paperback. English.
Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008
New ed. / edited by James Kinsley /with an introduction by Margaret Anne Doody /notes by Claire Lamont
Jane Austen sets social snobbery against summer picnics; social rejection against the passion of real love. Her warm portrait of the relationship between...
Between the acts
Hardback. English.
Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011
[New ed.] / edited by Mark Hussey
With detailed explanatory notes, a chronology and an informative critical introduction, this volume will allow scholars to develop a fuller understanding...
August
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Vintage, 2002
In his debut novel, Gerard Woodward turns the story of one family's happiness and grief into an elegy for the charms of postwar English family life and...
A time to keep
eBook. English.
Published
[London]: Bloomsbury, [2015]
Set in Dorset in the summer of 1804, against the backdrop of the threatened Napoleonic invasion of Britain, 'A Time to Keep' inhabits terrain somewhere...
