ReadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2025

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Alan Shelston Editor & Author

John Chapple is Emeritus Professor at the University of Hull. Alan Shelston is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester

Selected Writings cover

Selected Writings

Thomas Carlyle - Paperback

£12.99

Further Letters of Mrs Gaskell cover

Further Letters of Mrs Gaskell

2 contributors - Paperback

£19.99

Biography cover

Biography

Alan Shelston - Paperback

£33.99

Biography cover

Biography

Alan Shelston - Hardback

£89.99

North and South cover

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell - Paperback

£11.99

Thomas Hardy: Moments of Vision cover

Thomas Hardy: Moments of Vision

Alan Shelston - Hardback

£105.00