Edgelands

by Paul Farley & Michael Symmons eye opening and hugely enjoyable The title of this eye-opening and hugely enjoyable book summarises neatly what the book describes – the places on the margins of our supposedly civilized world. Places that most of us ignore or even fail to notice at all. A fascinating, if rather unsettling, journey round the edges. Retail price £8.99  |  Our price £7.99  

The Etymologicon

What is the actual connection between gruntled and disgruntled?

The Last Gunfight

The definitive work on the Wild West’s greatest shoot-out…

Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War

by John Stubbs Cavaliers – foppish romantics/drunken roaring boys With almost effortless brilliance Stubb’s explores the gilded artistic world of the court of CharlesI. He explores in detail the conflicting views generated by the word “cavaliers”, men seen either as foppish romantics fighting for a doomed cause or caricatured as drunken yobs threatening public order. As the book so effectively demonstrates neither image reflects the truth. The primary focus is less on the actual Civil War and more on the fascinating lives of men such as gifted poet John Suckling and William Davenant – a man who, having contracted syphilis, managed to burn off his own nose by inhaling mercury fumes while in search of…