Monthly Archives: October 2013

An announcement: We won’t be in town between 23-29 October, and so are unable to mail books or entertain guests at our office during this period. If you’d like to purchase a book online, our shopping cart will still be functional, but your books won’t be mailed until 30 October. Apologies for this, and see […]

Here are some great quotes from the Selected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer, intentionally excluding quotes from his extremely sexist essay ‘On Women’: On Reading and Books: “Nine-tenths of our whole modern literature has no other purpose than to swindle the public of a few thalers out of its pocket. Author, publisher and reviewer are in […]

It almost always takes just a small group of people, sometimes only an individual, to change the course of history. And in the case of English poetry, particularly the British Romantic movement, the two most important figures are probably William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who are generally regarded as the founders of the Romantic […]

Our latest book, English Madrigals in the Time of Shakespeare is a collection of madrigals – or secular a capella songs – from the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Written in medieval English, if we can call it that, these were probably the pop songs of the day, delighting audiences with proclamations of love […]