From suburbia and skyscraper scrawl to the open prairies and 'local color', slum life to rural idyll: reprinting American and British literary classics.
This was Stella Benson’s third novel, published by Macmillan in 1919. It blends comedy and social commentary, fantasy and reality. It is the fictional account of Sarah Brown (who shares …
This was Sara Teasdale’s fourth collection, published in 1917, after she had moved to New York. In 1918 it was awarded the Columbia Poetry Prize (which was inaugurated in 1922 …
BRITISH RETRO : BR04 C format paperback (216mm x 135mm) gatefold cover. 160pp colour illustrations by Christopher Vinz cover design by Alexandra Andries
Baret Magarian’s novella is a tale of the shadow self set amidst the backdrop of Venice. It is about the changing nature of identity and the inescapability of the past. …
Nathanael West’s novel was published in 1933 and became the basis for several Hollywood films. It was written while he worked as the night manager of a Manhattan hotel. Miss …
Robert Frost’s first Pulitzer Prize winning volume, published in 1923. It contains many of his best loved poems. Frost was championed by Amy Lowell in 1914, when he was living …
A collection of three short stories that explore nostalgia and eroticism in the fragments of modern Europe. From the youthful Ilke, through the middle-aged Ignacio to the elderly Catherin, these …
SIMON COLLINGS is an Oxford-based writer. His poems, stories and essays have appeared in various journals. Out West is his first chapbook. 36pp, C format paperback, card wrapper. introduction by …
The word for ‘path’ in Arabic means so much more than can be translated into English. It signifies a familiar or even intimate neighbourhood with connotations of home and safety. …
Edward Thomas wrote all of his poems in just 30 months. He died at the Battle of Arras in April 1917. Only six of Thomas’s poems were published in his …
Sarah Gillespie is the most original singer/songwriter in the UK at the moment; her four albums have received widespread critical acclaim and much radio airplay in the UK and on public …
B format paperback (198mm x 130mm) 96pp cover design by Alexandra Andries
B format paperback (198mm x 130mm) 96pp cover design by Alexandra Andries
NOT YET PRINTED March 2020 This is one of only two novels Edith Wharton set in New England. It deals with unprivileged, poor members of a remote, rural town rather …
B format paperback (198mm x 130mm) 102pp cover design by Alexandra Andries
Gertrude Stein started to write this book as a collection of short prose poems in 1912. Its reception on its publication in 1914 (and since) has been diverse. It has …
E. W. HORNUNG’s gentleman criminal creation A. J. Raffles was a milestone in British detective fiction. Based on his friend George Cecil Ives, who was a talented cricketer and criminologist, …
NOT YET PRINTED March 2020 Mary Roberts Rinehart was prolific and hugely successful in her time; her first novel was published in 1906, her last in 1952. She is often referred …
BRITISH RETRO SERIES : BR11 C format paperback (216mm x 135mm) gatefold cover, 256pp cover design by Alexandra Andries