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'The Charioteer remains compelling both as a snapshot of a particular - and particularly fascinating - cultural moment, and as a deeply romantic story of love fulfilled against the odds. It has all those qualities that make Mary Renault so memorable as a novelist:...
BY A REMARKABLE CANADIAN WRITER. NOW A TV SERIES. 'The grandmother of the YA/adult crossover novel' JEAN HANNAH EDELSTEIN, GUARDIAN From the beloved author of Anne of Green Gables comes the story of Emily Starr, L. M. Montgomery's own favourite character, in the Emily...
'My name is Jude. And because of Law, Hey and the Obscure, they thought I was a boy.'Jude is twenty-one when she flies in a private plane to Sark, a tiny carless Channel Island, the last place in Europe to abolish feudalism. She has been hired for the summer to give...
FROM THE BELOVED AUTHOR OF ANNE OF GREEN GABLES. NOW A TV SERIES. 'The grandmother of the YA/adult crossover novel' JEAN HANNAH EDELSTEIN, GUARDIAN Discover L. M. Montgomery's own favourite character in the Emily of New Moon trilogy. It features a spirited heroine who...
BY A REMARKABLE CANADIAN WRITER. The beloved author of Anne of Green Gables continues the adventures of Emily Starr, L. M. Montgomery's own favourite character, in Emily Climbs, the second instalment of the Emily of New Moon trilogy.Emily never imagined Aunt Elizabeth...
In the summer of 1913, the world seems full of possibility for four very different young men. Young Jean-Baptiste dreams of the day he'll leave his Picardy home and row down-river to the sea.Earnest and hard-working Frank has come to London to take up an apprenticeship...
As her mother slipped into the darkness of old age, Lisa Appignanesi began to realise how little she knew of the reality behind the tales she had heard since childhood. She had shunned her parents' stories of war-time Poland, but now she set out to find the truth. In...
'Rachel Cooke shines a new light in an elegantly original way into the 1950s and especially into the role of women' Kate Atkinson'Witty, intelligent, kind and poignant. Cooke exudes love and knowledge of people, gardens, food, art' The TimesIn her apron and rubber...
Beware the women who are called witches, or those who claim the name for themselves...Banshees - a howling night-witch and harbinger of death; She-devils - Lilith and her daughters; or Bitches - Hecate, whose chariot is drawn by dogs.Alluring women, enchantresses,...
Delicious and dangerous, this collection of fairy tales is a glorious tribute to women with 'do what thou wilt' bravado - those who dare to wear the breeches. They shed their female garb (and modesty) and don the male's role to save king, country, kin, and their own...
Evil Women. Every culture has them. Religions have banned and branded them. Men find them terrifying and fascinating. Women secretly admire them. An eye cast over the impressive if frightening array of characters reveals baby-thief Lamia, a fertile deity from Greek...
Uncovering a wealth of lore from diverse cultures around the world, Shahrukh Husain has gathered together an anthology that will delight and entice. Through subtle reworking, these erotic tales are given new expression whilst remaining faithful to the original...
Fourteen-year-old Ellen Russell runs away from home, from her nagging mother and mean stepfather, and goes and lives with her boyfriend, Robbie. Robbie is mean too, but it's still more fun than home. Things seem better until Ellen is arrested for running away and,...
WINNER OF THE JOHN LLEWELLYN RHYS MEMORIAL PRIZE 'Her art is ignited by voice, as you hear it, is unquestionable' ALI SMITH, GUARDIAN 'Distinctive, pared-down style' DAVID EVANS, INDEPENDENT 'Unflinching look at the lives of working-class women' DAILY MAIL Nell Dunn's...
Virago Press and the Asham Award, the foremost prize for stories by women, present a collection of tales to send you to places you've never been before . . . Here are tales of people who travel far and those who stay at home and dream; of strange things in suitcases; of...
ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes' ENGLISH PEN'Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own peculiar acumen' ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD 'Lehmann has always written...
THE BESTSELLLING CLASSIC OF SIXTIES LONDON'Touching, truthful and fresh - a tour de force' MARGARET DRABBLE 'Hilarious, heartbreaking' PARIS REVIEW'Her art is ignited by voice' ALI SMITH, GUARDIAN'Exuberantly alive' SUNDAY TIMESTo think when I was a kid I planned to...
The Glass Ocean is a story of becoming. Flamehaired, six-foot-two in stocking feet, newly orphaned Carlotta Dell'oro recounts the lives of her parents - solitary glassmaker Leonardo Dell'oro and beautiful, unreachable Clotilde Girard - and discovers in their loves and...
ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 'The lyrical, sensuous quality . . . puts her immediately into the front rank of English writers' THE TIMES'It will consume you . . . transforming your whole inner life for the time it takes to read'...
'Comyns's world is weird and wonderful . . . a neglected genius' LUCY SCHOLES, OBSERVER'A curious hybrid: a mixture of domestic disaster, social commentary, comedy, and romance . . . ' KATHERINE A. POWERS, BARNES & NOBLE REVIEW 'I defy anyone to read the opening pages...
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