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The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940
Bright Young People/ Making the most of our youth/ They talk in the Press of our social success/ But quite the reverse is the truth. [Noel Coward] The...
The New Life
A fascinating exploration of George Orwell—and his body of work—by an award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, presenting the author anew t...
The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age
A pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites known as the Bright Young People romped through the gossip columns of 192...
Nervously monitored from a twelfth-floor eyrie near Blackfriars, Scott Marshall’s world looks as if it’s falling apart. It’s late 1990 in the Ci...
Systems, Maintenance and Change
This is the third edition of the highly successful book, Biological Science. The text has been revised and updated to provide comprehensive coverage o...
A Biography of George Orwell's Masterpiece
The essential backstory to the creation and meaning of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century—and now the twenty-first. Since its...
A Victorian Mystery
It's Derby Day and all of England is heading for the Epsom Downs. Society beauties rub shoulders with Whitechapel street girls, as every class of soci...
‘Terrific’ Daily Mail ‘Tremendous’ Guardian ‘Page-turning’ The Times ‘Gripping’ Daily Telegraph Autumn 1939. In an alternative world, ...
Summer 1931 in seedy Bayswater and James Ross is on his uppers. An aspiring writer whose stories nobody will buy ('It's the slump'), with a landlady h...
A Reader's Guide to George Orwell
A spirited and essential companion to Orwell and his works, covering all the novels and major essays An intellectual who hated intellectuals, a social...
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A Definitive Guide to Modern Snobbery
'Hugely enjoyable' AN Wilson, Sunday Times 'Thoughtful, entertaining and enjoyable' Michael Gove, Book of the Week, The Times Inspired by William Make...
The Decline of Amateurism in Sport
In January 1929, before 20,000 spectators, Norwich City of the Third Division South went down 0-5 in the third round of the FA Cup to an amateur side ...
Love, War and Literature: 1939-51
A Times Book of the Year 2019 'You should not deny yourself the pleasure of reading it' Sunday Times 'A remarkable work and an important addition to t...
A Novel
Past and present collide for a man on a mission to document a history that may or may not exist, in this ingenious novel by the acclaimed author of De...
Organisms, Energy and Environment
Biological Science covers both core and option material for AS Level and A Level. This is the third edition of the highly successful book, Biological ...
Stories
Eighteen tales featuring down-on-their-luck characters whose dreams will never come true, by Man Booker Prize–long-listed author D. J. Taylor In the...
Autumn 1933, and for once struggling writer James Ross seems to have fallen on his feet. Not only has the Labour Exchange fixed him up with a day-job ...
Literary Life in Britain Since 1918
'An entertaining history of literary life' Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily Telegraph Spanning a century of literary history, from the pitched battles foug...
When Henry Ireland dies unexpectedly from what appears to be a riding accident in August 1863, the failed landowner leaves behind little save his high...
A stuffed bear, a pet mouse, fraud and felony on the streets of London, and strange goings-on in the fens... Full of suspense and teeming with life, K...
Cambridge Low Price Editions are reprints of internationally respected books from Cambridge University Press. The text has been completely revised and...
The True Story of Resurgam Records by One Who Was There
Essays and Rreviews 2010-2022
Poppyland moves on from D.J. Taylor's Stewkey Blues (2022) to offer more pitch-perfect reportage from his native Norfolk (and beyond it), bringing tog...
The True Story of the Helium Kids by One Who Was There: A Novel
'Taylor's magnificent new novel is Spinal Tap for literary types . . . thoroughly entertaining, knowledgeable romp through the fear and loathing of ro...