This pioneering anthology of Middle English prologues and other excerpts from texts written between 1280 and 1520 is one of the largest collections of vernacular literary theory from the Middle Ages yet published and the first to focus attention on English literary theory before the sixteenth century. It edits, introduces, and glosses some sixty excerpts, all of which reflect on the problems and opportunities associated with writing in the "mother tongue" during a period of revolutionary change for the English language.
The excerpts fall into three groups, illustrating the strategies...
This pioneering anthology of Middle English prologues and other excerpts from texts written between 1280 and 1520 is one of the largest collections...
From the prize-winning author of Richard and Judy Book Club novel, The American Boy, this is the first in the acclaimed Lydmouth crime series, set on the Welsh/English border in the confusing years after the Second World War.
From the prize-winning author of Richard and Judy Book Club novel, The American Boy, this is the first in the acclaimed Lydmouth crime series, set on ...
From the prize-winning author of Richard and Judy Book Club novel, The American Boy, this is the second in the acclaimed Lydmouth crime series, set on the Welsh/English border in the confusing years after the Second World War.
From the prize-winning author of Richard and Judy Book Club novel, The American Boy, this is the second in the acclaimed Lydmouth crime series, set on...
A sheep farmer is found hanging from a tree at a crossroads outside the Welsh market town of Lydmouth, wearing handcuffs with his legs tied. Death appears to be suicide or a bizarre accident, with sexual overtones. Detective Inspector Richard Thornhill and reporter Jill Francis think it is neither.
A sheep farmer is found hanging from a tree at a crossroads outside the Welsh market town of Lydmouth, wearing handcuffs with his legs tied. Death app...
From the prize-winning author of Richard and Judy Book Club novel, The American Boy, this is the fifth in the acclaimed Lydmouth crime series, set on the Welsh/English border in the confusing years after the Second World War.
From the prize-winning author of Richard and Judy Book Club novel, The American Boy, this is the fifth in the acclaimed Lydmouth crime series, set on ...
Final novel in Andrew Taylor's powerful Roth Trilogy: 'With all due deference to its heavenly virtues, this is a hellishly good novel' -- Frances Fyfield, Sunday Express Janet Byfield has everything Wendy Appleyard lacks: she's beautiful; she has a handsome husband, a clergyman on the verge of promotion; and most of all she has an adorable little daughter, Rosie. So when Wendy's life falls apart, it's to her oldest friend, Janet, that she turns. At first it seems as to Wendy as though nothing can touch the Byfields' perfect existence in 1950s Cathedral Close, Rosington, but old sins gradually...
Final novel in Andrew Taylor's powerful Roth Trilogy: 'With all due deference to its heavenly virtues, this is a hellishly good novel' -- Frances Fyfi...
The Korean war rumbles in the background throughout this novel as a reporter is found murdered at the Bathurst Arms, squatters are evicted from a military camp and there are new developments in the three-year-old hunt for a missing teenager.
The Korean war rumbles in the background throughout this novel as a reporter is found murdered at the Bathurst Arms, squatters are evicted from a mili...
From the prize-winning author of Richard and Judy Book Club novel, The American Boy, this is the sixth in the acclaimed Lydmouth crime series, set on the Welsh/English border in the confusing years after the Second World War.
From the prize-winning author of Richard and Judy Book Club novel, The American Boy, this is the sixth in the acclaimed Lydmouth crime series, set on ...
Detective Inspector Richard Thornhill could be the new Morse if TV schedulers have their way: don't miss the breakout book from this hugely talented award-winning crime writer It is 1955 and the influx of televisions do nothing to relieve the tensions in t
Detective Inspector Richard Thornhill could be the new Morse if TV schedulers have their way: don't miss the breakout book from this hugely talented a...
The true story of Gerard Mercator, the greatest map-maker of all time, who was condemned to death as a heretic.
'Geographie and Chronologie I may call the Sunne and the Moone, the right eye and the left, of all history.'
In 'The World of Gerard Mercator', Andrew Taylor chronicles both the story of a great astronomer and mathematician, who was condemned to death as a heretic, and the history of that most fascinating conjunction of science and art: the drawing of maps. Gerard Mercator was born in Flanders in 1512. In addition to creating accurate globes of the earth and the...
The true story of Gerard Mercator, the greatest map-maker of all time, who was condemned to death as a heretic.
