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Product Description Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Dark Room, an extraordi...

Product Description I have learned many words for 'island': isle, atoll, eyot, islet, or skerry. They exist in archipelagos or alone, and always,...

Product Description By the author of Black Narcissus.'Her craftsmanship is always sure; her understanding of character is compassionate and profo...

Product Description 'Fascinating and illuminating' STYLIST'Perceptive and candid' IRISH TIMES'Wide-ranging, deep-dive, soul-baring interviews, fu...

Product Description She let herself out of the large, untidy house and into her own beautiful, hyacinth-scented one. She sat down in the bay-wind...

Review One of the great autobiographies written in the 20th century ... A journey from lumionous childhood, through the dark experiences of su...

About the Author P. L. Travers was born Helen Lyndon Goff in 1899 in Queensland, Australia. She worked as a dancer and an actress, but writing was...

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

About the Author Edith Widder is an oceanographer, a marine biologist and the co-founder, CEO and senior scientist at the Ocean Research & Con...

Product Description An inspiring and entertaining testament to the power of friendship, from the hosts of the hit podcast Call Your Girlfriend'De...

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 I WAS BORN, SEPTEMBER 1985, IN THE VORTEX OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE OF NEW YORK: THERE WERE FEW RULES OF LIFE AND ZERO CONTRAINT...

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...

Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, first published in 1898; it was very popular and frequently reprinted during the...

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 ...

Review Earth mother or an elective caesarian type, put this cute new pregnancy manual top of your reading list...is a joy to browse - and info...

'Janet Frame's luminous words are the more precious because they were snatched from the jaws of the disaster of her early life . . . and yet to rea...

Product Description 'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imagi...

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

Product Description 'They will have to choose between giving us freedom or giving us death'So said,in 1913 ,the brilliant orator and suffragette ...

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 ...

Review Poignant, funny and beautifully unabashed, I Might Regret This takes readers on both a cross-the-country adventure and a deep dive into Abb...

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 Black, bitter and beautiful, she speaks of our survival ― JAMES BALDWIN Maya Angelou writes from the heart and her language rings clear an...

She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' Anne TylerLess Than Angels follows the loves, works...

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...

Review It's always a treat to read Elizabeth Taylor. Mossy Trotter is a real gem. A delightfully mischievous boy living in those long-ago halc...

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...

Review Gibbons's heroines are plucky, determined and quietly hedonistic. But she can do melancholy with the best of them, too, not to mention ...

Product Description **I HAVE NOT BEEN AS PROFOUNDLY MOVED BY A BOOK IN YEARS' JODI PICOULT****I LOVED THIS BOOK MORE THAN I CAN SAY**NIGELLA LAWS...

Product Description Owls Do Cry is the story of the Withers family: Francie, soon to leave school to start work at the woollen mills; Toby, w...

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 ...

Product Description 'Her detective novels are hilarious - less about detecting than delighting, with absurd farce and a wonderful turn of phrase ...