During a Christmas leave in London, Ford Madox Ford attended a party at the French Embassy, "a heavy blond man in a faded uniform" wearied by years of war, recalled to a longing for the life of a writer. The evening marks the beginning of a new phase...

Parade's End is the title Ford Madox Ford gave to his greatest work, the four Tietjens novels which, in Graham Greene's words, tell "the terrifying story of a good man tortured, pursued, driven into revolt, and ruined as far as the world is concerned...

This very special picture book is an unusual and utterly enchanting ABC, entirely devoted to the theme of Christmas. Each image opens a window onto some form of festive celebration, from the lighting of the candles on the tree, to bell-ringing, ice s...

Ford Madox Ford's post-war masterpiece, "Parade's End", is recognised as one of the great British novels about the First World War. This selection from his other extensive writings about the war, published and unpublished, sheds light on the tetralog...

Of all Ford Madox Ford's critical works, "The English Novel" (first published in 1930) is his most satisfying. He wrote it while travelling: memory plays a large part. It does not smell of the lamp or the library. Our guide-a major innovative novelis...

"It occurred to me to wonder what would really happen to a modern man thrown back to the Middle Ages", Ford Madox Ford said after reading Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court". The fruit of this meditation is "Ladies Whose Bright...