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This is a capacious and wide-ranging book, not just about individuals but about the history they move through. Whether the scene is Liverpool in the Blitz, a potato-chip factory in the prairies or a seedy hotel room in Hanoi, the writing is immediate . . . Grant...
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST, GRACE PALEY'Grace Paley's is exceptional' KASIA BODDY, GUARDIAN 'Her unladylike gutsiness and friendliness are nonpareil' EDMUND WHITE, OBSERVER 'They are stories full of the stories we all tell and live by,...
By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and The TestamentsCharmaine sees an advertisement for a project called Positron that promises you a job, a place to live, a bed to sleep in - imagine how appealing that would be if you were working in a dive bar and living in your...
Funny, irreverent, dark, and tender - a startling and sexy debut collection. Women (and men) cope with foreign marriages in Elena Lappin's shrewd domestic comedies of the absurd, set in London, New York, and a constellation of European and Israeli cities. Transplanted...
Natasha Kaplan, a giggly, overeducated thirty-something New Yorker, is now married and living in London. Her life seems quite settled until she accepts the job of editor on an Anglo-Jewish magazine called The Nose. Things here are not what they seem, andNatasha soon...
AN AWARD-WINNING AND REMARKABLE IRISH NOVELIST'This family tale mirrors the history of a country that can never evade its own past' The TIMES'Rush out for the works of Kate O'Brien. You are in for a treat' VAL HENNESSY 'A fuller appreciation of modern literature and a...
'There is something holy about Georgetown at dusk. The Atlantic curling the shoreline . . .'The first adult novel from Grace Nichols, winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2021. It is 1960 and the Walcotts are moving into the city from the village of Highdam....
AN AWARD-WINNING AND REMARKABLE IRISH NOVELIST'Rush out for the works of Kate O'Brien. You are in for a treat' VAL HENNESSY 'The first time I realised how powerful the small ordinary family life story can be' MAEVE BINCHY'A peculiarly beautiful and arresting piece of...
AN AWARD-WINNING AND REMARKABLE IRISH NOVELIST'A fuller appreciation of modern literature and a greater understanding of twentieth century Ireland' IRISH TIMES 'Writes with almost poetic intensity of the ecstasy and anguish of love' VAL HENNESSY'Stunning, unforgettable...
Elena Lappin's life could be described as 'five languages in search of an author'. She now lives in London, but she was born in Russia and has lived in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Israel, Canada, and the United States. As a multiple émigré, her decision to write in English...
For the past four years Jane Miller, author of Crazy Age: Thoughts on Being Old, has been writing a column for an American magazine called In These Times. Her beautifully observed pieces about life, politics and Britain open a window to her American readers of a world...
Provence, May 1889. The hospital of Saint-Paul-de Mausole is home to the mentally ill. An old monastery, it sits at the foot of Les Alpilles mountains amongst wheat fields, herbs and olive groves. For years, the fragile have come here and lived quietly, found rest...
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'Venomously accurate' SUNDAY TIMES 'A border zone of the macabre, the disturbing, the not quite accidental . . . Highsmith achieves the effect of the occult without any resources to...
AN AWARD-WINNING AND REMARKABLE IRISH NOVELIST'A superior type of romantic novel . . . quasi-intelligent and discursive' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Writes with almost poetic intensity of the ecstasy and anguish of love' VAL HENNESSY'A description of a bull-fight that...
AN AWARD-WINNING AND REMARKABLE IRISH NOVELIST'A grave and beautiful story, exquisitely composed and cut to a jewel-like fineness' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Rush out for the works of Kate O'Brien. You are in for a treat' VAL HENNESSY'A gem of a novel' TAMSIN HARGREAVESIreland,...
AN AWARD-WINNING AND REMARKABLE IRISH NOVELIST'This subtle and beautifully constructed novel deals with the conflict between human and divine love' SUNDAY TIMES 'If novels can be music, this is a novel with perfect pitch' CLARE BOYLAN 'A fuller appreciation of modern...
As the war continues it brings its own set of trials to the the village of Northbridge. Eight officers of the Barsetshire Regiment have been billeted at the rectory, and Mrs Villars, the Rector's wife, is finding the attentions of Lieutenant Holden (who doesn't seem to...
Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He may be pompous, and they may seem ill-matched, but the couple are devoted to each other.When Jack's widowed sister, Lilian, and her two...
'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York TimesIt is summer 1939 and the social event of the year is about to take place: Rose Birkett, a flighty beauty with a penchant for breaking engagements...
A masterly biography of one of America's most important twentieth century writers, written by acclaimed biographer Hermione Lee. 'The biographer's enthusiasm for her subject illuminates every page' HILARY MANTEL 'Hermione Lee's enthusiasm for this misunderstood writer...
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