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Review A riveting investigation into how society looks after its greatest and most valuable vulnerable asset: the child. Behind Closed Doors is a ...

A powerful, influential novel, praised by writers including Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Maya Angelou. Long out of print, this lost classic is ...

INTRODUCED BY LOUIS DE BERNIERES 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' PHILIP ...

Now filmed as Obsession on Netflix - starring Richard Armitage and Charlie Murphy The New York Times bestselling masterpiece - a daring look at th...

Product Description Set in the late 1950s, this is the story of Evelyn Hall, an English Professor, who goes to Reno to obtain a divorce and pu...

Review Lyndall Gordon manages to avoid being undaughterly about her exciting, difficult, self-obsessed mother . . . as racy as a novel ― Guardian ...

Review Easy Beauty is bold, honest, and superbly well-written. Chloé Cooper Jones is ruthless in probing our weakest and darkest areas, and does s...

Product Description Do you beat yourself up after making a mistake? Do you treat yourself worse than you would a good friend? If these questions ...

'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat' SARAH WAT...

Product Description 'A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit' DAVID MITCHELL, author of Cloud AtlasThe vividly told, gloriously illustrated memo...

Review Luminous; a profound portrait of the artist as a young-and mature-woman; an unflinching social history of disability over the last six ...

Product Description 'A leading new voice on racial justice' LAYLA SAAD, author of ME AND WHITE SUPREMACYA REESE'S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK...

Review Sarah Dunant's sparkling novel, In the Name of the Family, is girded by a keen political intelligence and a stunning feel for Italy in the ...

Product Description '[Her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack Obama'Marilynne Robinson is one of the greatest ...

Step into the charming world of Barbara Pym, where the intricacies of friendship and the hilarities of matchmaking unfold in delightful ways. "Jane...

About the Author Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. An author of four novels (Jonah's Gourd Vine, 1934; Their ...

Review An endearing first novel ― ELLE Beautifully written in precise, poetic prose that successfully evokes the love of like for like ― OBSERVER...

Review A fascinating exploration about the power of prophecy, of labels, and of one woman's determination to defy them all. Blair is a rebel, an a...

Review Extraordinary . . . a jaw-dropper of a memoir -- Viv Groskop ― RedA brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman -- P...

In her bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Queen, Tracey Thorn recalled the highs and lows of a thirty-year career in pop music. But with the to...

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Product Description Palmares hails the return of a major voice in literature - 'the best American novelist whose name you may not know' (Atla...

About the Author Attia Hosain (1913-1998) was born in Lucknow and educated at La Martiniere and Isabella Thoburn College, blending an English ...

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Product Description Set in London and Monmouth in the late 1700s, this is an extraordinary novel about Mary Saunders, the young daughter of a poo...

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Product Description Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous merchant father brings a young painter back with him from Holland to ador...

Review Captures a filial love as fierce and frank as its central figure ― New YorkerA sparkling debut. Any sadness in the telling is countered...

Review A captivating mixture of memoir, stories from the consulting room, history and science, The Brink of Being is a much-needed, comprehensive ...

Review Shirley Hazzard is an author for whom there just aren't praises high enough. Wise, elegant, generous, moving - to finish reading a book...

Review A champagne cocktail ... Rich, invigorating, and deceptively simple to the taste ... One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from...

Review An American writer with a powerful sense of vital inheritance, of history -- John UpdikeAn important American writer . . . The Healing ...

Original and compelling, an untold story of rare and captivating power - Philippe SandsThe hidden true story of Jewish women who inspired Poland's ...

Review Her work endures not merely because of the strength of its message but its artistry . . . Petry will always feel on time. Her kind of talen...

Product Description 'An inspiration to anyone who still finds old age too distressing a prospect to take seriously' The TimesOld age is no lo...

Review Like the landscape it inhabits, this brilliant novel is composed of equal parts mystery, menace, and ravishment. It's difficult to think of...

Review Glorious detail is marshalled from the copious reporting of these sensational stories ― Independent Enthrallingly narrated, Appignanesi's ...

Product Description 'If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, or maybe just incidents on which everything that follow...

Review An urgent, deeply moving, wholly original novel by one of the most wildly talented writers in America. This is Spiotta's best book yet, ric...

About the Author Marilynne Robinson, author of Housekeeping, Gilead, Home, Lila and Jack, is the winner of the Hemingway PEN award, the Pulitzer P...

Review There is something about those large eyes and that steadfast look that tells you that you are in the presence of a remarkable actor; an...

Product Description If there was ever a time to stand up for your planet, for Mother Earth, this is the time. But what are the most pressing env...