Interweaving real and fictional elements, The American Boy is a major new literary historical crime novel in the tradition of An Instance of the Fingerpost and Possession.

1934, London. Into the decaying cul-de-sac of Bleeding Heart Square steps aristocratic Lydia Langstone fleeing an abusive marriage. However, unknown to Lydia, a dark mystery haunts Bleeding Heart Square. What happened to Miss Penhow, the middle-aged spinster who owns the house and who vanished four years earlier?

Andrew Taylor explores the intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father.

one of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous short stories and novels.

'To Mr Andrew, This is to Inform you that from May 31st, your contract will not be renewed. You should contact the personnel Department to arrange payment of your three months' pay in lieu of notice'. For most people, a fear of redundancy hangs over them like a dark cloud.

One of a series of editions of the author's most famous short stories and novels.

This book deals with narratives of cultural legitimation in nineteenth-century US literature, in a transatlantic context.

Features an analysis of books from various fields of human creativity and intellectual endeavour. This book sets each work and its author in historical context, summarizes the content of the work in question, and explores its influence and legacy.

When Mattie Harris' body is found drowned in the river, everyone in Lydmouth knows something is wrong. Mattie wasn't a swimmer - it can't have been a accident. She was drunk on the last night of her life - could she have fallen in? Or was she pushed? Part of the Lydmouth crime series, this work is set in the Marches in the years after WWII.

It's a difficult time for William Dougal - he's given up smoking. To make matters worse, a touch of blackmail persuades him into doing a job for his old adversary James Hanbury. Nothing complicated - all he has to do is keep an eye on Dr Vertag, the leader of a lunatic fringe survival group, The Sealed Servants of the Apocalapse.

Back in 1964, Peter Redburn and his best friend Richard had played out their special game - a private world of secret rituals and oaths of loyalty sworn for eternity. Now an adult, Peter stumbles across childhood memories. And with a funeral bringing all participants together again, bitter rivalries and sordid secrets are about to be unearthed.

Richard & Judy author Andrew Taylor's award-winning Dougal series, available for the first time in years.

It is 1993 and Thomas Penmarsh has lived in Finisterre, the house by the sea, all his life, he's only 48 and in 1967 he lost everything he valued. However now his controlling mother has died and he is master of the house. When Esmond, his cousin and childhood confidante, comes to live with him Thomas is overjoyed. But is Esmond all that he seems?

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

The books in this series contain 50 photocopiable extracts covering the year-appropriate range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Each extract is supported by teacher's notes and an annotated mini-version of each extract to show how it can be worked in the lesson.

When the body of Rufus Moorcroft is found in his summerhouse the verdict is suicide. But both reporter Jill Francis and her lover, Detective Richard Thornhill, approaching the case from different angles, discover there's more to it than that.

William Dougal, a post-graduate expert in the medieval script of Caroline Minuscule, stumbles on the garroted corpse of his tutor - and finds himself embroiled in a hunt for a cache of diamonds.

Andrew Taylor gathers together 35 years worth of his published poetry and adds to this a substantial body of new unpublished material. Ranging through explorations of relationships, landscapes, cultures and political issues, Taylor's work delights in the physical world and celebrates the regenerative power of love.

This book attempts to address the paradoxes inherent in international modernism (a literary movement which at once strove to cross borders of nation, language, and tradition yet which at the same time often endorsed nationalist and 'racial' models of identity.

Every age of human history has been dominated by attempts by ethnic and national groups to establish their power and dominance over other, weaker entities, whether for reasons of territorial and cultural aggrandisement, material ambition or even individual obsession. This book features 25 imperial hegemonies.