Select your day, on orders placed before 14:00 (Mon-Fri) Nominated day or Saturday/Sunday delivery* Parcelforce normally offer a one hour delivery window via SMS or Email.ĭelivery Charges for items sold by JarroldĭPD Upgrade (upgrade to DPD express delivery) Standard delivery orders are usually sent with either Royal Mail and Parcelforce. We aim to dispatch all items which are in stock on the same working day when orders are received by 14:00. In 1927, he settled in the south of France, and lived there until his death in 1965. His other works include travel books such as On a Chinese Screen, and Don Fernando, essays, criticism, and the autobiographical The Summing Up and A Writer's Notebook. His fame as a short story writer began with The Trembling of a Leaf, subtitled Little Stories of the South Sea Islands, in 1921, after which he published more than ten collections. His first play, A Man of Honour, was followed by a series of successes just before and after World War I, and his career in the theatre did not end until 1933 with Sheppey. His position as a successful playwright was being consolidated at the same time. Of Human Bondage, the first of his masterpieces, came out in 1915, and with the publication in 1919 of The Moon and Sixpence his reputation as a novelist was established. Thomas' Hospital with a view to practising medicine, but the success of his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, published in 1897, won him over to letters. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and at Heidelberg University. William Somerset Maugham, famous as novelist, playwright and short-story writer, was born in 1874, and lived in Paris until he was ten.

VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. 'She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference'

The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham