It is 1913 - just prior to England's entry into World War I - and Edwardian England is about to vanish into history. A group of men and women gather at Sir Randolph Nettleby's estate for a shooting party. Opulent, adulterous, moving assuredly through the rituals of eating and slaughter, they are a dazzlingly obtuse and brilliantly decorative finale of an era.
It is 1913 - just prior to England's entry into World War I - and Edwardian England is about to vanish into history. A group of men and women gather a...
'As a novelist of English manners, Isabel Colegate has no rival.' - "The Times" 'Colegate's prose is flowing and unpretentious. She tells an excellent tale.' - "Daily Telegraph" ' Colegate's] strengths - neat psychological details, coolly literate narration, dry humor - are on ample display throughout.' "Kirkus Reviews" Anthony Lane is dead, a casualty of the Korean War, and at home in England he is praised a hero. But Baldwin Reeves, who served with him, knows the truth: Lane, a traitor and a coward, was executed ignominiously by his own men. Envious of the wealth and social...
'As a novelist of English manners, Isabel Colegate has no rival.' - "The Times" 'Colegate's prose is flowing and unpretentious. She tells an exce...
The masterpiece of one of the most important and overlooked British women writers of the twentieth century, with a new introduction by Melissa Harrison; 'Isabel Colegate has no rival' (The Times) Orlando King is a trilogy about a beautiful young man, raised in a remote and eccentric wilderness, arriving in 1930s London and setting the world of politics ablaze. In a time of bread riots and hunger marches, with the spectre of Fascism casting an ever lengthening shadow over Europe, Orlando glidingly cuts a swathe through the thickets of business, the corridors of politics, the pleasure...
The masterpiece of one of the most important and overlooked British women writers of the twentieth century, with a new introduction by Melissa Harriso...
