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Matt Wingett
A young woman arrives in an English seaside village in deep snow and is desperate to leave? But what is she running from, and why does she have nowhere to…
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Available post-free in the UK from the publisher’s website, www.lifeisamazing.co.uk. A woman on the run arrives in a British seaside town, a refugee from a horrifying past. Trapped by a…
9 stories ranging from the strange and fun to the weird and dark, all set in Portsmouth - the UK's only island city.
Lake Allen
The first Popular history of Portsmouth and its environs originally written in 1817. Starting with the Anglo-Saxon invasion in 501 AD, the book traces the early battles of the English…
Robert Dolling
Available post-free in the UK direct from the publisher, www.lifeisamazing.co.uk.
This new edition of this excellent book has been carefully edited and the type reset to modern standards. It is…
Henry Hawkes
Account of the life of the founder of the ragged school movement, describing his life and his work in the town of Portsmouth in the early 1800s. John Pounds’s pioneering…
Traces the spiritualist career of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between the years 1887 and 1920, from a fascinated dilettante to the mouthpiece of a world movement. Reproduces every article and…
Arthur Conan Doyle
The first complete edition of the previously uncollected short stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with specific interest in his home town of Southsea, Portsmouth, during the 1880s, where he…
Walter Besant,James Rice
Victorian novel, completely reset and edited, and includes a preface by Dr Alison Habens, lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Portsmouth, who gives modern readers a fresh insight…
The Mysteries of Portsmouth - full description to follow with ghosts, UFOs, myths, The Mysteries of Portsmouth - full description to follow with ghosts, UFOs, myths, The Mysteries of Portsmouth…
A celebration of the writers who have featured Portsmouth in their works, including Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Meredith, Rudyard Kipling, H G Wells, Walter Besant, J S Law…
