A Shorter Ulysses
The publication of A Shorter Ulysses will delight all readers of James Joyce and Anthony Burgess, as well as those who are coming to their work for the first time.| Galileo Publishers
On the eve of World War II, Lady Lupin Hastings, the young, totally scatterbrained but kindly wife to Andrew Hastings, the vicar of Glanville, is off for a bit of a rest cure at a country hotel in Kent, owned and run by her old friend Diana Turner, while she recovers from a bout of ...| Galileo Publishers
Alistair Greenwood, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, hosts a luncheon at his faultless 17th-century home. Its perfection is marred by the incompatibility of the guests and the arrogance of the host. Gillian Adams, an American scholar revisiting the university while on sabbatical from Vancouver, finds it distasteful, but she’s truly appalled when the ...| Galileo Publishers
The publication of A Shorter Ulysses will delight all readers of James Joyce and Anthony Burgess, as well as those who are coming to their work for the first time.| Galileo Publishers
A Record of Shelford Parva was written and illustrated by village grandee Fanny Wale in the early 20th century. It was the first dedicated history book of Little Shelford.| Galileo Publishers
A beautiful collage painting by local artist Frances (‘Frankie’) Richardson.| Galileo Publishers
It was a far cry from Communist China to the peaceful village on the South Downs, but for a self-confessed murderer, keeping his agonised diary, it could buy no peace. But then, who was the writer of the diary? And why had there been so many incidents around the mill pond? This is one of ...| Galileo Publishers
Firestarter is part true-crime mystery, part historical investigation. Set in the early 19th century, it is the tale of a farm worker who gains notoriety for setting multiple fires on farms in a village near to Cambridge. It is also the story of how that village determines to rid itself of a man whose actions ...| Galileo Publishers
A DARK ALCHEMY pervades this atmospheric tale of ambition, magic and Victorian intrigue.| Galileo Publishers
When a body is discovered at a stadium used by a college athletics squad, Darac cedes leadership of an ongoing case to investigate. Who is the victim? Why were they killed? Who could have performed such a brutal act? As the list of suspects grows and the earlier case continues to frustrate Darac’s second-in-command, Roland Granot, a mysterious sighting sets in train a series of events which threatens to strike at the very heart of Darac’s world.| Galileo Publishers
Quentin Blake’s illustrations to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the founding of Cambridge University make a perfect 1000 piece jigsaw.| Galileo Publishers
It is July 1897, at the northernmost reach of the inhabited world. A Swedish scientist, an American journalist and a young, French-speaking adventurer climb into a wicker gondola suspended beneath a huge red and white balloon. The ropes are cut, the balloon rises and the three begin their voyage: an attempt to become the first ...| Galileo Publishers
From Southern California in the late 1900s to San Francisco at the time of the earthquake: ending in Paris at the beginning of WW1, Herma is a rollercoaster of a novel with an extraordinary twist. With a cast of characters that includes Proust, Puccini and Caruso, Herma also beautifully evokes the dawn of early flight, ...| Galileo Publishers
thing Like the Sun Nothing Like the Sun opens with a young WS (as he is known throughout the novel) at home in Stratford-upon-Avon. WS is desperate to escape the confines of a domestic life which he finds to be highly distracting. He hears ‘the world, the wide world crying and calling like a cat ...| Galileo Publishers
Anthony Burgess’s novel is an Anglo-Russian comedy, which takes us into the heart of the Cold War world of mutual love-hate and incomprehension. Pro-Russians, anti-Russians even Russians themselves will find plenty here to be delighted and outraged by. To Leningrad sail Paul Hussey, an antique dealer from Sussex, and his American wife Belinda. Paul is ...| Galileo Publishers
Only now, 70 years after his death, are English language readers gaining access to Alfred Döblin’s astonishing epic fictions. However, very little background information is available in English to orient a reader to this extraordinary body of work. This book entirely solves the problem by providing wanderers with a map and compass — and rations ...| Galileo Publishers
As a doctor in a military hospital in Haguenau, near Strasbourg,Alfred Döblin witnessed the chaotic two weeks between the Kaiser’s abdication and the evacuation of Germans from Alsace, when everyone – military and civilian, high official to lowly cleaning lady – had to negotiate a game without rules as the old (Prussian) order broke down ...| Galileo Publishers
There is one word missing from the text of this extraordinary book by novelist and playwright Jonathan Smith. Parkinson’s. The fact that the author never mentions the word is significant. His writing is without a trace of self-pity and is yet a work that penetrates to the core of what happens when the body no ...| Galileo Publishers
Could there be any connection between the theft of a tomahawk from Monk Jewel museum and a notorious gang of violent thieves who called themselves ‘The Busy Bees’? Sergeant Bradfield is sent to investigate the theft while Detective-Inspector Charlton is looking into what he feels are the far more significant crimes of The Busy Bees. ...| Galileo Publishers
PUZZLE SIZE: 680 x 480 mm Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) Piccadilly Circus on Boat Race Night Eric Ravilious is best known for his watercolour paintings of the English landscape, but he also worked as a designer, book illustrator, and engraver. During the 1930s, he collaborated with Josiah Wedgwood & Sons to produce a series of ceramics ...| Galileo Publishers
An extraordinary collage of Oxford scenes including partly hidden characters from the city’s rich cultural life. The artist is K. L. Lewis, who has already had huge successes with Cambridge and Edinburgh puzzles.| Galileo Publishers
