The Old and the Young

Margiad Evans

English literature has a fine tradition of rural writing, and one of this century’s greatest exponents was Margiad Evans (1909-1958). Although born in Uxbridge, she was brought up near Ross-on-Wye, and it is the south Herefordshire borderlands, its farmsteads, hamlets and towns, which are the setting for The Old And The Young, her collection of short stories first published in 1948 ...

Old People are a Problem

Emyr Humphreys

The western world is growing old and as the ’silver’ readership increases the octogenarian - though sprightly - Emyr Humphreys has written six long stories for and about the elderly. In these stories Humphreys explores change: political, social and physical, and its effects on the individual and society ...

Out of Nowhere

Roger Granelli

White British guitarist Frank Magnani arrives in fifties New York to break into the smoky world of jazz. Coming home from the austerity of post-war Europe to a land of plenty he finds there’s plenty to learn. His education is not confined to music alone, he also finds himself in a world where ego is everything, the musicians are black, and the drink and drugs the fuel of creativity ...

Outside the House of Baal

Emyr Humphreys

Spanning the twentieth century, Outside the House of Baal is the story of the conflict between public duty and personal love. In the course of a day J.T. Miles looks back over his life, a "Good Man" confronted by the choices of living. He is forced to contemplate the modern world (of which he feels no part) and his betrayal of his Welsh-speaking heritage ...

Overland

Richard Collins

Welcome to the happy-go-lucky world of 19-year-old Daniel Brownlow as he travels abroad after leaving school. Things ’just happen’ to Dan, a Seventies teenager with a blue Mohican and the nickname ’Madness’ ...