Intro John Shapcott (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Arnold Bennett's first novella is the story of a 'generic man from the North' coming to London with aspirations as a writer and discovering a thrilling new world, alongside frustration, office politics and crippling writer's block.

Hardcover. Condition: New. This novel follows shy, retiring Constance Baines and her bold, romantic sister Sophia from their childhood in Victorian Staffordshire to their European travels, their differing married lives, and finally their reunion as old women in the early 19th century.

Hardcover. Condition: New. This comedic work follows Edward Henry 'Denry' Machin, a washerwoman's son from the Five Towns who cheats his way into grammar school and scrambles up the social ladder to become a local town mayor.