Sylvia: 1490 books

Prior to D-Day General Montgomery, the Commanding Officer of HQ21 Army Group, gathered together a small number of ATS girls who had volunteered to serve abroad. Sylvia was one of them. Her service with HQ as a shorthand typist commenced with her posting direct from the training centre in 1943 and...

Major Gervase Benefield returns injured from the wars to find himself the unlikely heir to a dukedom. Unfortunately, there are many more debts than assets. Miss Sarah Strong is the daughter of a weathy businessman and an accomplished businesswoman in her own right. Although she has no desire...

From the winner of the Griffin Prize, a richly lyrical collection of poems exploring the body’s minutiae In her first full-length collection published in the United States, Sylvia Legris probes and peels, carves and cleaves, amputates and dissects, to reveal the poetic potential of human...

Endorsed with a cover blurb by Neil Gaiman. Sylvia Townsend Warner’s final collection of short stories was originally published in The New Yorker, and appeared in book form in 1977. This reprint brings these sixteen sly and enchanting stories of Elfindom to a new readership, and shows Warner’s...

Sophia Willoughby, a young Englishwoman from an aristocratic family and a person of strong opinions and even stronger will, has packed her cheating husband off to Paris. He can have his tawdry mistress. She intends to devote herself to the serious business of raising her two children in proper Tory...

A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events...

Rookie P.I. Sidra Smart thinks she knows where she’s headed. But when Sid’s second case requires that she clear the name of a dead man, she finds herself confounded by clues that lead no-where. She will have to face a baffling series of crimes, a burned-out office, the disappearance...

In 2012 Jamaica celebrates the 50th anniversary of Independence.Mixed Company is a collection of three of the finest early Jamaicantheatrical works, written for the most part before the dawn ofIndependence.Written in 1954 (The Creatures by Cicely Waite-Smith), 1960 (Bedwardby Louis Marriott) and 1970...

“You’re mine, Arianne. Always.” Ari has never felt more alive—not to mention safe—than when she’s tangled up in Jared’s powerful embrace. But despite his deliciously dirty mouth and passionate promises, Ari knows there’s only one way out of danger… for both of them. She...

Some rules beg to be broken. Arianne Holbrook is desperate for a better life, but until she can devise an escape plan, she’s forced to obey the rules. Rule number one? Never confess her secrets to a man. Especially when that man is a sexy, dirty-talking billionaire whose demanding...

Wenceslaus the clumsy apprentice despairs of ever mastering smith-magic. His teacher, wicked Black Kaspar, mocks him, but Kaspar’s lonely young wife Kalyna breaks into a smile full of dimples whenever Wenceslaus is about. None of them know that their mountain harbours a dragon—or that the gold...

Charlie & Me is a Hollywood memoir written by Harriett Bronson, the first wife of the international super star, actor Charles Bronson. The book details their 16-year high profile marriage and divorce, and Harriett's life afterward as the "ex" Mrs. Famous who reinvents herself as a talk...

In 1945, Taiwan was placed under the administrative control of the Republic of China, and after two years, accusations of corruption and a failing economy sparked a local protest that was brutally quashed by the Kuomintang government. The February Twenty-Eighth (or 2/28) Incident led to four decades...

Issue #125 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Gemma Files and Sylvia Linsteadt.