Bloomsbury

Od Fitch hates his life. He hates living in the middle of nowhere, hehates the fact that his mum is dead and his dad is too wrapped up inhis research to notice him, and he hates his school, where the lessonsare too easy and dull to bother with. But everything changes one day when Od arrives home to discover hisfather has been abducted by...

Drawing on the principles of the Slow Movement, which advocates a return to local, sustainable ways of living, Slow Finance reveals the true scale of the imbalances within the world equity markets, in the context of the trends of the last 20 years. Slow Finance draws direct parallels between the adverse effects of globalisation on food production,...

In 1960, Storm Jameson decided to write her memoirs. The result was Journey from the North, one of the great literary autobiographies of the century. Volume One, first published in 1969, tells of her childhood in Whitby before the First World War, the strong ties with her formidable mother, an early love of the sea, her intellectual achievements at...

The Dead Witness gathers the finest adventures among private and police detectives from the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth--including a wide range of overlooked gems creating the finest ever anthology of Victorian detective stories. "The Dead Witness," the 1866 title story by Australian writer Mary Fortune, is the first known...

With literary ability, clarity of style, and astonishing inventiveness, Storm Jameson tells the story of people who - as may happen to any one of us at any time - are forced to make a supremely momentous decision.The author’s intellectual curiosity, combined with her grasp of social, political and moral happenings, make this novel a powerful...

The Sparkling Cascade of diamonds was designed to adorn the women who married into one of England’s most prominent families - a symbol of the wealth and privilege enjoyed by the Firths of Yorkshire. Instead the magnificent necklace would come to burden the women who wore it, becoming for them an emblem of bondage and inherited tragedy.Pamela...