Michael Walmer

A Day to Remember to ForgetAuthor: Rosalind BrackenburyPublisher: Michael WalmerPublication Date: January 25, 2020Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Anna Parrish and Ruby Smith have been intimate friends from childhood. Anna is blonde, coolly interrogative, more traditionally beautiful and, in subtle senses, dominant. Ruby is dark-haired, more...

In London, before the First World War, where in society love and money predominate, Bertha and Nigel had been inseparable. But then Nigel felt he had to focus on the economics of life, and after all...

In the small town of Sintiempo in Arizona, in the hot summers of 1942 and 1943, young Millie Delaney is the solitary teacher at the tiny local school. There are only a few students, most of them just...

Into EgyptAuthor: Rosalind BrackenburyPublisher: Michael WalmerPublication Date: Nov 25, 2021Number of Pages: 232 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0648920496ISBN-13: 9780648920496

Sir Lionel Bridgemont, a wealthy young English traveller, and Lavinia BuenafE, a young well-born Portuguese girl, had thought, ten years ago when they were betrothed, that their love was forever. But...

In the early nineteenth century, Juliette Ruyter, a beautiful young Belgian, and her protector, the noble Spaniard Aleo Bustamante, have arrived in Venice just before carnival. The mystery of their...

Miss Ethel Browne is a typical adornment of her era. A single lady of a certain age in the period before the First World War usually assists a senior, or less healthy family member with the running...

In this extraordinary collection of nine stories, called in the original Czech Painful Tales (Trapn?pov?ky), one of the masters of twentieth century fiction details human situations where the...

NAKIKETAS AND OTHER POEMS.Author: MAY. SINCLAIRPublisher: Michael WalmerPublication Date: Sep 25, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 0645751944ISBN-13:...

Odette d'Antrevernes, a sheltered and enthusiastic young girl, lives with her widowed mother, her Creole nurse and their aged butler in an old grey chateau by the Loire. She receives regular visits...

Pagan Papers (Walmer Belles-Lettres)Author: Kenneth GrahamePublisher: Michael WalmerPublication Date: Aug 25, 2020Number of Pages: 196 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

On first publication in 1958, The Daily Telegraph's reviewer said "Hugo Charteris' Europeans are neurotic, frightened, clinging to their fragmented patterns...the sheer intensity of the whole book is...

PICTURES ON THE WALL.Author: HUGO. CHARTERISPublisher: Michael WalmerPublication Date: Sep 25, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0645751936ISBN-13: 9780645751932

In the early 19th century, young Prue and Gideon Sarn live with their mother on a farm around a mere deep in the Shropshire countryside. Their life is full to brimming with the agricultural round,...

Gillian Lovekin is the daughter of a lonely farm up on the high moorland of Shropshire. Her widowed father, Isaiah, is wealthy, but rustic. In a cottage on the farm lives the Makepeace family: old,...

Edith and Bruce Ottley could not be called idyllically married. But a form of love persists between them, and their two precocious young children, Archie and Dilly, provide a further bond. Bruce's...

The Dancer from the DanceAuthor: Janet BurrowayPublisher: Michael WalmerPublication Date: Nov 25, 2024Number of Pages: 260 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1763565610ISBN-13: 9781763565616

Dormer is an old house with Elizabethan origins, much added to. It sits, very isolated, in a cup of the Shropshire hills, surrounded by forest. The Darke family have lived there for centuries...

O my noble-hearted boy! cried Bianca, pressing my head against her breast with deep emotion; "O pure and unselfish soul! Who will dare now to say that there are no great hearts save those that are...

Two young Lunarians, daughter Lorlt and son Rorlt, live with their ancient father, Horlt, who is Master of the Kingdom of Zed, a domain on the near, Earth-visible, side of the Moon. They have just...

In this extraordinary piece all of John Cowper Powys' eccentric and wild inventiveness is on display. In a small flat in New York in the 1920s an old couple, former circus performers, live a...

Known primarily as a colourful and eccentric novelist, Ouida embodied in her forthright essays a much more piercing energy and single-minded verve. The majority of these ten essays were first...

Mary Webb was passionately devoted to revealing nature in all of its expressions and forms. She was diagnosed with Graves' disease at the age of 20, and in times of recovery she early noticed that...

The Story of KethAuthor: Blanche GirouardPublisher: Michael WalmerPublication Date: Apr 25, 2020Number of Pages: 232 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0648690938ISBN-13: 9780648690931

Valmouth, a southern English coastal resort, has a generous supply of well-furnished and well-connected relics of society. Hare-Hatch House, inhabited by good friends Eulalia Hurstpierpoint and...

Author: Hugh LoftingPublisher: Michael WalmerPublication Date: Apr 25, 2020Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 0648690946ISBN-13: 9780648690948

Gerald Bullett's life was marked by war. He served in the First World War for four years in his twenties, and then worked for the BBC in London during the Second World War, in middle life.Like many...