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The following sheets pretend to no merit in composition, the writer pretends to no reputation as an author; the subject must be interesting to every British reader, and if the events are faithfully recorded, the work will deserve some attention. Unaccustomed for a series of years to any great or continued exertion upon the continent, the people of England almost doubted their power or means of supporting one. The genius of Lord Wellington, the bravery of British troops, have removed this d...

The memoirs of the early campaigns of the Duke of Wellington, particularly during his time in Portugal and Spain, provide a vivid account of military strategy and leadership. Written by the Earl of John Fane Westmorland, these recollections offer a unique perspective on the challenges faced by British forces during the Peninsular War. Westmorland's insights into Wellington's tactics and the experiences of soldiers on the ground illuminate the complexities of warfare in the early 19th centu...

Shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2024In Tristram Fane Saunders' first collection, readers encounter a poet whose ingenious forms dazzle, even while exploring darker themes. Drawing on delicious, unconventional rhymes and rhythms, Before We Go Any Further conjures a contemporary London as it maps the ways we try to communicate with each other across real and invented distances.Sphinxes and sea-creatures, sleepwalkers a...

The sublime rests precariously on the edge of the abyss.'This volume is a collaboration between wordsmith Olivia Fane and painter John B. Harris. Fane's first essay is on the philosophical understanding of the sublime. The sublime first became a subject of serious philosophical thought in the eighteenth century, thanks to Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant. Fane argues for an interpretation of the sublime as the radically other, and argues that its function is primarily epistemological, in tha...

Tristram Fane Saunders lives in London and works as a journalist. The Rake lives in lavish squalor and has never worked in his life. Laura lives nowhere – she's dead, for now – but she is working on a way to solve that problem.These sly, untrustworthy poems tell the story of a nameless, ageless dandy – his slow decline, and his well-deserved fall. Take a ride in the Rake's carriage, but keep an eye on your purse.

What flies on moonlit wings?An ancient predator...A balloonist turning the tide of a battle...A vengeful Valkyrie...These characters and more await in stories born of the magic of moonlit wings and the need--the power--of transformation.Embrace the night. Embrace the magic. And fly...Experience the magic of moonlit wings in these five science fiction and fantasy short stories by Tracy Eire, Ember Fane, ...

This is a Harley Ryder Short. Woken in the middle of the night by a desperate mechanical familiar, Rye discovers that her mentor, friend, and sometimes lover, has been trapped inside a snowglobe by a cold-hearted witch bent on revenge. When she finds herself transported into the snowglobe along with the cold-hearted Elsarine, Rye must face the elements, injury, ravenous wildlife and an ice dragon.

This is a Harley Ryder Short. Rye has a buyer for her newly restored Harley-Davidson Sportster. But the succubus bound inside the bike by a frustrated wizard is making things difficult.

Olivia Fane addresses the politics, the obsessions, the misconceptions of one of the most important aspects of human existence.Is Sex Natural? Is Sex Dirty? Is Sex Loving? Is Sex about Beauty? Is Sex Political?This is a necessary and controversial book in these confused, self-obsessed, sex-obsessed and gender-fluid times.

Edna St Vincent Millay (1892–1950) was one of the most popular American writers of her generation, and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Thomas Hardy once remarked that America had only two great wonders to show the world: skyscrapers, and the poetry of Edna St Vincent Millay. Poems and Satires restores that wonder to view, while also revealing Millay as a more innovative and versatile talent than she is usually given credit for being. It includes some of her wickedly f...

As a fit and active 51-year old, with low cholesterol and no obvious risk-factors, I experienced a near fatal heart attack.I was fitted with a stent and prescribed a life-sentence of medication, that contained a long list of terrible side effects, and was told that the chances of another heart attack were quite high.Confused, scared and frustrated at the position I found myself in, I decided to learn as much as I could about heart disease.What I have discovered alon...