Introduction by Frank Delaney. Set in Ernhardt with Friz Quadrata display on Balmoral Wove paper. Bound in full cloth using a design by Malcolm Harvey Young. A collection of Irish short stories, including Goldsmith, Edgeworth, Carleton, Le Fanu, Sheehan, Gregory, Moore, Wilde, Somerville, O'Kelly, Dunsany, Corkery, Joyce, Stephens, O'Flaherty, Bowen, O'faolain, O'Connor, Boyle, Beckett, Macmahon, Lavin, Kiely, Higgins, Trevor, Friel, O'Brien, McGahern, Daly, Jordan from the 18th to contemporary authors. 16 illustrations. A lovely book. Read More...

Based on the true story of William Buckley, a bricklayer, the novel begins in the rural Cheshire of the 1790s as William and Het are making ready for the annual festival known as Shick-Shack Day. William has been chosen as the village's Shick-Shack - an ancient fertility figure, face blackened with charcoal and bedecked with boughs of oak - and Het is to be his Teaser. Read More...

A novel by Aldous Huxley which tells the story of a Hollywood millionaire fearing his impending death. This satire explores several philosophical and social issues, some of which would later take the forefront in his final novel Island. Read More...

The sequel to The Three Musketeers. The action begins under Queen Anne of Austria regency and Cardinal Mazarin ruling. D'Artagnan, who seemed to have a promising career ahead of him at the end of The Three Musketeers, has for twenty years remained a lieutenant in the Musketeers, and seems unlikely to progress, despite his ambition and the debt the queen owes him. By chance, however, he is summoned by Mazarin, who requires an escort, as the French people detest Mazarin, and are on the brink of rebellion (La Fronde). D'Artagnan is sent to the Bastille to retrieve a prisoner, who turns out to be his old friend and former adversary, the Comte de Rochefort. Read More...

The final section of The Vicomte de Bragelonne. Read More...

The Three Musketeers is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. Set in the seventeenth century, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a guard of the musketeers. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis; inseparable friends who live by the motto "all for one, one for all". Read More...

Edmond Dantès, a young and successful merchant sailor recently granted his own command, returns to Marseille to marry his fiancée Mercédès. Leclère, a supporter of the exiled Napoléon I, charges Dantès on his deathbed to deliver two objects... Read More...

1826: Napoleon Bonaparte is dead, the Congress of Vienna's work is done, and there is peace in Europe. However, in Portugal there is the scent of civil war in the air following the death of King John VI. And with Spain, and perhaps even France, threatening to take sides, England's historic treaty with Portugal is set to be invoked. Newly returned from India, Matthew Hervey joins a party of officers sent to make an assessment and lend support to the Portuguese regent. Read More...

The last two years have not been good ones for Matthew Hervey. His beloved wife Henrietta is dead and, believing that he can no longer remain in a regiment where men like Lord Towcester can rise to command, he has turned his back on the Sixth. He is left kicking his heels in a corrupt and unruly England far removed from its once glorious past. Read More...

The year is 1824; the Sixth Light Dragoons are still stationed in India, and the talk in the officers' mess is of war. The Burmese are increasingly encroaching on Company land and skirmishes are becoming common on India's borders. Meanwhile, across the country, the succession to the Raj has been usurped. The rightful claimant, Balwant Singh, has been forced from the throne by the warmonger Durjan Sal. A conflagration looks set to flare, taking the surrounding provinces with it. Read More...