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From our greatest novelist of Renaissance Italy comes Sacred Hearts, a stunning tale of passion, betrayal and music set in an enclosed convent in 1...

Product Description ***A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK***   ***A BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK***   A woman wondering who she re...

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...

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 'An absolute belter of a page-turner' HEAT'A fantastic book club choice' PRIMAWould you have a baby for your daughter?Ruth ha...

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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 ...

Product Description Collected Stories includes both volumes of National Book Award-winning author Shirley Hazzard's short story collections - Cli...

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...

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Review Shirley Hazzard. For me, the greatest living writer on goodness and love . . . THE GREAT FIRE so overwhelmed me that I came close to being ...

Product Description BY THE AUTHOR OF BALLET SHOESwith beautiful illustrations by Edward Ardizzone'A joyous, sunlight book. For me, the best Noel ...

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

Product Description 'R. O. Kwon is the real deal' LAUREN GROFF'Absolutely electric . . . Everyone should read this book' GARTH GREENWELL'Every ex...

Combining the scholarship of a historian with the imagination of a novelist, Mary Renault masterfully brings the ancient world to life in this page...

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...

Review An extremely beautiful and funny novel . . . The Orchard on Fire is probably Mackay's most perfect book, produced with a technical adro...

Product Description 'Renault's masterpiece. One of the greatest historical novels ever written' SARAH WATERSIn the second novel of her stunning t...

Review Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or t...

Review A small masterpiece, a near perfect account of how childhood has to come to an end and the serpent must enter the garden . . . In The R...

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

Product Description 'It's for everyone. Candid, authentic and utterly charming' Sarah Waters, author of Tipping the Velvet'Funny and super relata...

Review A subtle and beautiful book ... Very few authors combine her acute psychological insight with her grace and style. There is plenty of l...

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 Lehmann is unbeatable on social nuance, both among the London bohemian set and Rollo's more conventional upper-class milieu. No one cou...

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...

Review Love, death, friendship, compassion & SO MUCH wisdom. I just adore Sigrid Nunez ― Paula HawkinsIf the meaning of life is that it en...

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

A sparkling 1930s English romantic comedy, perfect for fans of Stella Gibbons, PG Wodehouse or EF Benson, Angela Thirkell's classic Wild Strawberri...

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...

Lessons in living from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly pheno...

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...