The Book Mill: 4 books

It's 1935.  Tamar Fell has no family - or so she's been told - and she relies on the friends she makes as she's dragged from lodging house to lodging house by her mother - the reckless, beautiful Sadie.  Then Tamar meets Anna Weissmann, exiled from her own family by European politics, and they forge...

A book detailing the lives and occupations of itinerant Irish immigramts in the north of England during the last two centuries. It tells the story of how the Irish helped to build the North of England and of the many characters who left their mark. It is written with the conviction of personal experience,...

A The Lake Poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, have become a literary myth and we are used to looking at the Lake District landscape through its romantic prism. But for their sisters, wives and daughters the view was very different. The Wordsworths lived at Grasmere, the Coleridges and Southeys...

The compelling, intimate,  and often controversial, story of Katherine Mansfield - one of the world's greatest short story writers - the only writer Virginia Woolf confessed to being afraid of.   Kathleen Jones has been the beneficiary of a mass of previously unavailable material relating...