Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best BiographyNew York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the YearPenelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-concealing, oblique and subtle. She won the Booker Prize for her novel Offshore...

I can explain why I'm hiring male strippers.I can explain the want ads for saucy male companionship I'm posting. I can even explain pretending to date the city's most notorious playboy.They say revenge is a dish best-served cold, but mine is going to be spicy, sizzling, and hilariously humiliating.My ex, Vaughn, cheated, stole from me, and worse. I refused to be the lovable, heartbroken heroine who hides under a pile of tissues and ice cream pints. ...

Unlucky-in-love Penny Irving can’t believe the gall of Greg Danvers. He walks into her naturopathy clinic asking for help after his louse of a brother skipped town with her rent money. Greg needs to relax all right, he’s the most tightly wound individual Penny’s ever met. She’d turn down his request for yoga lessons if she didn’t need the money. It’s only a week out of her life, she tells herself. It won’t kill her.But the surprising fantasies she starts to have about Greg just mig...

Wall Street Journal bestselling author Penelope Bloom returns with a laugh-out-loud office romance about two sworn enemies who bash heads until sparks fly.For some reason, my new boss has it out to get me.Innocent little me? I'm just a petite, talented, darling little thorn in his side. Okay, my words, not his.But he can't fire me unless I quit—long story. The joke's on him because I couldn't even quit chewing gum, let alone my dream job. S...

Violet Paget (1856–1935), also known under the pseudonym Vernon Lee, was a French-born British writer famous for her supernatural fiction and contributions to the field of aesthetics. She also wrote more than a dozen books on a variety of subjects ranging from music to travel, and today she is best remembered for her original ideas and amusing use of irony. First published in 1903, “Penelope Brandling” is a fantastic example of classic Victorian literature not to be missed by those who hav...

A collection of RD Wingfield’s finest thrillers from the Sixties, Seventies and EightiesBest known for his ‘Inspector Jack Frost’ series of novels, RD Wingfield also penned a string of gripping thrillers for BBC Radio. Initially thought lost, many of the 14 dramas in this collection were recovered and restored by Keith Wickham and the Radio Circle, and thanks to their careful preservation, are now available to enjoy once more.Credit Risk

Her free spirit will snap his iron control. Wild Crush, Book 4. Penny Irving has been unlucky in love—most recently with a man who stole her rent money before skipping town. She’d love to forget the experience, but it’s next to impossible when the louse’s brother walks into her naturopathy clinic. She’d slam the door in Greg Danvers’s face—if she didn’t need the cash he’s offering for yoga lessons. It’s only a week out of her life. No harm done…until the tightly strung lawyer infiltrates h...

Mary Webb’s award-winning novel adapted for radio with a full cast, plus a dramatised biography of the celebrated authorNovelist and poet Mary Webb is as closely associated with Shropshire as Thomas Hardy with Dorset and the Brontës with Yorkshire. She wrote six books set against the timeless landscape of the county she knew and loved so well, but only achieved literary success after her death when the then Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin praised her work, describin...

This practical book provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of all aspects of the commercial production of blackberries and their hybrids, covering plant growth and development, cultivar description and selection, propagation, pruning, soil and water management, postharvest management, economics and marketing, and pest identification and management. Cultivated blackberries are a relatively new crop, but with new cultivars and cultural practices they are now grown and available wor...

A trio of dramas based on Henry Green’s most notable novelsBorn Henry Yorke, aristocrat and industrialist Henry Green led a double life as a managing director of an engineering firm and one of the finest English modernists of the 20th century. A contemporary and friend of Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell, he penned nine novels before giving up writing in 1952 at the age of 47. Three of them are dramatised here, with casts incuding Pauline Quirke, Amanda Root...

Penelope Meets the Puddlemans is an Australian made picture book about Penelope, an Australian Brushtail Possum, and her quest to get rid of the noisy new neighbours that have moved into her house. Each morning brings an unwitting new disturbance that ruins Penelope's sleep, each night she tries a new set of shoes to drive out the intruders. Covering universal themes of grief, change, and compromise, Penelope Meets the Puddlemans aims to provide a delightful insight for c...

Set against the stunning backdrop of the Welsh coast in the eighteenth century, Vernon Lee's "Penelope Brandling" intricately weaves a tale of personal and cultural discovery. Through lyrical prose and vivid imagery, Lee delves into themes of identity, morality, and the intricacies of relationships amidst societal constraints. The story revolves around its titular character, Penelope, as she navigates the tumultuous waters of love and societal expectation, revealing the rich tapestry of he...