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Oscar Wilde & Murders At Reading Gaol

Emma — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Dieppe, 1897. Oscar Wilde, poet, playwright, novelist, raconteur and ex-convict, has fled the country after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel imprisonment with a mysterious stranger. He has endured a harsh regime: the treadmill, solitary confinement, censored letters, no writing materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation, Oscar's astonishing detective powers remain undiminished.

Last Dance

Emma — Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

‘The year has, indeed, begun in gloom. The King ill, and Kipling dead . . .’ so wrote the diarist Chips Channon in 1936 as George V lay on his deathbed at Buckingham Palace. The passing of two such pillars of the establishment sent tremors through the nation and heralded the ending of the old order.

1936 was to be an extraordinary year: at home social and constitutional crisis threatened, while in Europe, the dictators were on the march. It was the year of the abdication and civil war in Spain. The tectonic plates of history were shifting – Britain would never be the same again.

The Last Dance is told using the accounts of those who lived through this turbulent period. Through extracts from diaries of shopkeepers, socialites, bishops, and volunteers in Spain, and the memoirs of the unemployed, housewives and hostesses, as well as the contemporary accounts of politicians, journalists and poets, Blakeway offers a compelling and vivid account of a turning point in our nation’s story.

John Betjeman Collected Poems

Emma — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

‘It would be difficult – in my opinion impossible – to point to a contemporary poet of greater originality or more genuine depth of feeling’ Anthony Powell

THE DEFINITIVE JOHN BETJEMAN COLLECTION, REISSUED FOR THE CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH

Collected Poems made publishing history when it first appeared, and has now sold more than two million copies, to an ever-growing readership. This newly expanded edition includes Betjeman’s verse autobiography, Summoned by Bells. With a new Introduction by Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, Collected Poems is the definitive Betjeman companion.

Includes his verse autobiography Summoned by Bells in its entirety.