The Great War changes everything. In this epic tale spanning over a decade war turns the world of privileged English aristocrat Christopher Tietjens upside down. It forces him to question everything he holds dear
- social order morality marriage & loyalty. & it rocks the very foundations of English society. This is a powerful story about love betrayal & disillusionment in a time of horror & confusion by one of Britains finest novelists. Ford Madox Fords monumental novel comes to our screens this August as a major BBC adaptation with a screenplay by the legendary playwright Tom Stoppard & a stellar cast. This edition of the novel

Includes:: all four parts originally published separately between 1924 & 1928.


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Last Post" the fourth & concluding volume takes place on a single summers day. Fords characters move on into the unsettling & disorienting post-war world. With fluency humour & his unmatched formal skill Ford explores individual memory hope & uncertainty subtly questioning the current & future matter of Engl&." ...

Booker Prize-winner Julian Barnes introduces Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece Parade's End"
- now a major new BBC/HBO TV adaptation
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Praise for Katie Price 'A fabulous guilty holiday pleasure'
- heat Unabashedly laden with sex & OTT with glitz... Go on run yourself
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This is an emotionally compelling teen novel from Joanna Nadin
- twice nominated Queen of Teen
- featuring romance & family

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It's not as if Nel hadn't enough on her plate already: organising a farmers' market in the picturesque Paradise Fields & keeping track of her unnervingly beautiful teenage daughter
- plus sorting out a houseful of animals
- are quite enough to keep her busy. The last thing she needs is another complication in her life but when her old friend Sir Gerald dies & his son Pierce
- accompanied by his glamorous American wife
- takes possession of The Big House it seems that preserving the Fields is not on his list of priorities. Nel takes up arms determined to fight for the meadow & the market she loves. But whom can she trust? She's pretty sure her friends Sacha & Vivian are on her side but her sensible boyfriend Simon an estate agent is less encouraging. & then there's Jake the exaspering yet attractive stranger who kissed her under the mistletoe. Maybe she's been a not-so-merry widow for far too long.



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Angel Sands is a traditional seaside resort of bed & breakfasts cottages to let & teashops. & with the best views of the tiny beach & surrounding coastline is Paradise House home to the Baxter girls
- or the Sisters of Whimsy as they're known locally. With their mother taking time out to find herself it's down to Genevieve to maintain the smooth running of the family-owned B&B. Not an easy task given that their father
- now that his wife isn't around
- has suddenly become a magnet for the opposite sex. & there's little help from her sisters: Nattie is too busy offending her long time admirer & Polly spends most of her days with her head in the clouds or in a book. But when news spreads in the tightly knit community that a nearby dilapidated barn has been sold Genevieve finds that a bittersweet trip down memory lane is unavoidable...


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John Milton's celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological moral & spiritual origins of man's existence Paradise Lost" has been fully revised with an introduction by John Leonard in " Penguin Classics". In " Paradise Lost" Milton produced poem of epic scale conjuring up a vast awe-inspiring cosmos & ranging across huge tracts of space & time populated by a memorable gallery of grotesques. & yet in putting a charismatic Satan & naked innocent Adam & Eve at the centre of this story he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties
- blind bitterly disappointed by the Restoration & in danger of execution
- " Paradise Lost's" apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways of God to men' or exposes the cruelty of Christianity. John Leonard's revised edition of " Paradise Lost" contains full notes which elucidates Milton's biblical classical & historical allusions & discuss his vivid highly original use of language & blank verse. John Milton (1608-1674) spent his early years in scholarly pursuit. In 1649 he took up the cause for the new Commonwealth defending the English revolution both in English & Latin
- & sacrificing his eyesight in the process. He risked his life by publishing " The Ready & Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth" on the eve of the Restoration (1660). His great poems were published after this political defeat. If you enjoyed " Paradise Lost" you might like Dante's " Inferno" also available in " Penguin Classics". " An endless moral maze introducing literature's first Romantic Satan". (John Carey). "" Paradise Lost" is to my mind the greatest poem in English". (Philip Pullman author of " His Dark Materials" trilogy)."


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Of mans first disobedience & the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world... Sing heavenly muse From almost the moment of its first publication in 1667 Paradise Lost was considered a classic. It is difficult now to appreciate both how audacious an undertaking it represents & how astonishing its immediate & continued success was. Over the course of twelve books Milton wrote an epic poem that would justify the ways of God to men a mission that required a complex drama whose source is both historical & deeply personal. The struggle for ascendancy between God & Satan is played out across hell heaven & earth but the consequences of the Fall are all too humanly tragic
- pride ambition & aspiration the motivating forces. In this new edition derived from their acclaimed Oxford Authors text Stephen Orgel & Jonathan Goldberg discuss the complexity of Miltons poem in a new introduction & on-page notes explain its language & allusions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more.
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First published in 1968 Alastair Fowlers annotated edition of Paradise Lost is acknowledged as the most authoritative guide to this major work. It is the only recent edition of Paradise Lost to be based on the text of the first (1667) edition now widely accepted to be closer to Miltons intention than that of 1674. ...