Books

David Morris lives the quiet life of a book-valuer for a London auction house, travelling every day by omnibus to his office in the Strand. When he is asked to make a trip to rural Somerset to value the library of the recently deceased Lord...
By: Peter Benson

A prolific author of novels, poetry collections, plays, biographies and translations, Elaine Feinstein is one of the towering literary figures of the last few decades. In this, her first memoir, she tells the story of her journey from a Jewish...
By: Elaine Feinstein

Enriched by new material not available in the previous hardback edition The Leopard , published posthumously in 1958, was one of the most important works of fiction to appear in the Italian language in the twentieth century. Between 1925 and 1930,...
By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Lightship Publishing aims to discover and mentor the best new literary voices from around the world. The Lightship Anthology 1 is a collection of new short stories, poems, flash fiction and the winning first chapter from the Lightship International...
By: Various Authors

Lightship Publishing aims to discover and mentor the best new literary voices from around the world. Lightship Anthology 2 is the second collection of short stories, poems, flash fiction and a first chapter from the 2012 Lightship International...
By: Various Authors

Bishop Odo, half-brother of William l, commissions a hanging to commemorate the King’s conquest of England. The man he chooses to design this tribute, Turold, a Norman renowned for his skill but not his temper, reluctantly travels to the convent in...
By: Peter Benson

On his nineteenth birthday in an English seaside town, Duncan Blaine gets a clue to the whereabouts of his mother, Diana, who, nine years earlier, left him to be raised by relatives when a tragic accident took the life of her husband. When he meets...
By: Peter Benson

A story of displacement, betrayal – and the lingering past September 1953. Fourteen-year-old Barney Holland is promised a fresh start when he is offered a place at a boarding school on the remote North Sea island of Lindsey. Instead, he is shunned...
By: Trilby Kent

Nine-year-old “Skid” Beaumont’s family is stuck in the mud. Following his father’s decision to relocate and build a new home, based on a drunken vision that New Orleans would rapidly expand eastwards into the wetlands as a result of the Seventies...
By: Roland Watson-Grant