This collection of Lafcadio Hearn's writings, including ghost stories and letters, is published to mark the centenary of Hearn's arrival in Japan. Hearn was the son of an Anglo-Irish surgeon major in the British army and a Greek mother and became famous as one of Japan's great interpreters, at a time when Japan was undergoing dramatic social change as a result of the modernization programme begun in the 1860s.

Siegfried Sassoon praised Isaac Rosenberg's 'genius' and T.S. Eliot called him the 'most extraordinary' of the Great War poets. Yet it is over 30 years since there has been a biography of Isaac Rosenberg. This reappraisal of his life and work by one of the First World War literature's leading authorities is long overdue.

Charles felt ashamed of his father when he spent too much money and was taken away to the Debtors' prison; after all it happened more than once. His father was locked up until he found enough cash from somewhere to get out. Charles's Mama, brothers and sisters stayed with his father in the "little" room in the Marshalsea prison but Charles was on his own and had to work in a blacking factory, lodging with an old lady he thought of as his very own witch, Mrs.Roylance. He shuddered every time he thought of her - skin folded in pleats on her creased face, small whiskers on the upper lip and...

A 1914-1918 Fisher Lass's War. The 'Great War' raged in Europe, reaching out as far as the north east of England to touch Alice living in a mining community. In the space of this war the fisher lass lost her first love in a pit disaster and the second by treachery on the battlefield. She would have to leave her village and return before the war released its grip in her. Shelley and Friends. Shelley and friends are remembered for their literary achievements but are arguably more memorable because of their avant-garde attitude to women and children. Here a little light is thrown onto what is...