The profound issues raised in this novel, which contains no altered historical facts but more human truth than facts alone can deliver, have not gone away.

Follows Prussian aristocrat Max von Hofmannswaldau from 1914 to the beginning of World War II as he comes of age during the rise of the Nazis and seeks to uncover the truth about his own identity and the origin of the modern German ...

In this volume, Lucy Beckett illuminates some of the finest writings in the Western tradition and trains our eye to discover in them the Christian vision of God.

The Leaves Are Falling, a sequel to A Postcard from the Volcano but a stand-alone story, explores this question. Ê

In this book Lucy Beckett gives a comprehensive account of Wagner's last and strangest opera.

His grandson, well-educated but ignorant, comes to the village to help the old man make a book of the pile of chaotic manuscript that tells the story of a difficult, painful yet luminous life.

Clare Wilson, long widowed, nearly eighty, and mostly alone in the Kensington flat where she has lived for decades, is used to the losses of old age.

Lucy Beckett presents Stevens as a contemplative poet, engaged on a long enquiry into the nature of the relationship between the creative imagination and the world it illuminates and recreates.

This series is designed to provide an informative introduction to non-fiction subjects for young readers.