Blackthorn Press: 164 books

‘The Overtone’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1923. It was the forty-fourth of his sixty-seven short stories, all of which will be published individually in ebook format by the Blackthorn Press. 'The Overtone' looks at a sterile marriage with no children and no spontaneous sexual feeling between...

‘Daughters of the Vicar’ was written by D H Lawrence in 1911. It was the eleventh of his sixty-seven short stories, all of which will be published individually in ebook format by the Blackthorn Press. Lawrence is at his best in this story, taken from the scenes of his childhood and based on characters...

The ship 'General Carleton' was built in Whitby in 1777 and sank off the coast of Poland in 1785. When she was excavated in the 1990s a wide range of artefacts were recovered many of which, due to being coated in tar from the ship's cargo, were in a remarkable state of preservation - most notably...

The words of William Wordsworth are part of the fabric of the English language. His poem 'The Daffodils' was voted the second most popular poem in England (after Kipling's 'If') and phrases jump off the page like old friends when seen in their original setting: 'The world is too much with us; late...

David Herbert Lawrence was the son of a coal-miner and a mother from a family with middle-class aspirations. He was a novelist, short story and travel writer, playwright, art critic as well as one of the most consummate poets of the twentieth century. For the first time, all of Lawrence’s poetry...

"... full of emotion-, secrets, mystery and steam!" - Kobo Reader Farrell Black is dirty, dangerous, and holds nothing sacred. Growing up on the mean streets of London, he clawed his way to the top of a criminal empire with nothing but sheer force of will and the determination to...

*** A Standalone Romance *** Luca Cassano is off-limits, hard-to-reach, and hotter than hell. After the turf war that almost got Luca killed, a job in Miami working as a bodyguard sounds like just what the doctor ordered; sun, sand, and a completely straightforward job. But as...

This new fully, illustrated, history of Hull, in the United Kingdom, traces the story of the city from its beginnings as a haven for the transportation of goods to one of the main medieval harbours of England. The town was a key player in the Civil War of the seventeenth century and grew to become one...

Miss Mackenzie was written in 1865 and looks at the love of a mature couple, John Ball and Miss Mackenzie. There are echoes of earlier novels, with love and fortune won and lost and clergymen acting as the villains. But the story is memorable for its treatment of how a lone woman could maintain her...

Trollope visited North America at the time of the American Civil War and wrote, not only about the war but with humour and sympathy on all things American he saw on his travels. The book was well received in America, but met with a certain amount of British hostility because of its championing of...

The Villages of East Yorkshire' is a collection of forty historical studies of some of the East Riding's most interesting and well-known communities, the events that shaped them and the personalities that made them famous. From the Wolds to the plain of Holderness and the North Sea coast, the rich...

Hailed by his contemporaries as the 'Father of Water Colour painting in this country', Francis Nicholson's career spanned nine decades. He witnessed the founding of the Royal Academy, the opening of the first public 'Picture Gallery', the founding of the National Gallery, and the Inaugural Exhibition...

'Two Blue Birds', the classic triangle of the man, the wife and the secretary, struggle to work out what their relationships are with each other. Neither of the women seem to want the man sexually but the secretary offers devotion while the parasitic wife has more insight into the man and his work....

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was born in London to a bankrupt barrister father and a mother who, as a well-known writer, supported the family. Trollope enjoyed considerable acclaim both as a novelist and as a senior civil servant in the Post Office. He published more than forty novels and many short...