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Piers Dudgeon
‘Astonishing… A fascinating and obsessively close look at one of the great rags-to-riches stories of our time.’ Sunday Express
From working-class dreamer on the cobbled streets of Yorkshire to one…
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A story of genius and possession. It describes the turn of the century, when a late-nineteenth-century world of mesmerists, psychics, trancers and table-turners gave way to a new twentieth-century age…
Born into the bleak industrial heartland of Tyneside in 1906, an illegitimate child, with the courage to escape and discover her true self, denies her people, reaches rock bottom, and…
‘A remarkable insight into the private life of the much-loved author.’ Irish Independent ‘A loving tribute to the popular Irish writer. Fans will find new insight to their favorite Binchy…
A compelling oral history of life in Glasgow and the second title in our Disappearing Britain series
A fascinating insight into the life of one of the country’s bestselling and best-loved authors, marrying her work with her extraordinary life, and looking at her rise to fame and…
The untold story behind Peter Pan The shocking account of J. M. Barrie’s abuse and exploitation of the du Maurier family.
Giovanni Guareschi
First time publication in the English language of 26 Don Camillo stories by Giovanni Guareschi.
In the sixth book in the Don Camillo series a storm breaks and the village priest discovers that the last straw can break even a Camillo’s back.
No. 7 in the Don Camillo Series, this bumper volume of classic Tales from the Lower Plain includes many never before translated into English. Beloved of 23 million readers worldwide…
Beset by the third young progressive leftwing priest with a mandate to steer him into the modern world, Don Camillo digs in and finds a surprise ally in Peppone as…
More timeless and insightful stories of life in Italy’s Lower Plain, where the hot-headed priest Don Camillo and the equally pugnacious Communist mayor, Peppone, define with perfect and hilarious symmetry…
Brand new, authorised translation of Guareschi’s 2nd classic collection of tales about the hot-headed Catholic priest, Don Camillo. 12 stories never before published in English.
When Peppone loses out to Don Camillo on a matter of conscience, he must accept the battling priest among a group of Italian activists on a trip he is organising…
These enchanting, wise and strangely moving tales of life in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna continue to enthral millions of readers of all ages around the world. In this newly translated volume, many…
The fifth in the Don Camillo series and the first wholly new anthology to be translated into English for over forty years. As ever, the book includes conversations with God.
In Merry Christmas Don Camillo the author's Christmas stories appear alongside his war-time experiences in the prison camps of Germany and Poland, out of which he formed the polemic that…
Paul Worsley QC
This is a vintage whodunit, first in the author’s Judge’s Tales series, a grisly murder in Edwardian London as social revolution and psychiatry posed new questions for the Law and…
