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Seventeen-year-old Alan can't stand rows. But, though the Second World War has ended, peace hangs by a fine thread at home: his...

Grizel Dane, a bold young servicewoman in the US army, arrives at the London home of her great-uncle Sir Rollo Dane seeking...

'The motto was Pax but the word was set in a circle of thorns. Peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and...

Harriet is caught between two worlds: her older sister is no longer a playmate, her brother is still a little boy. And the...

High in the Himalayas near Darjeeling, the old mountaintop palace shines like a jewel. When it was the General's 'harem' palace,...

Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary,...

On the banks of the River Avon, five sisters are born. The seasons come and go, the girls take their lessons under the ash tree,...

By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched only by its brutality and corruption. When...

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

When newly orphaned Cassandra Dashwood arrives as governess to little Sophy, the scene seems set for the archetypal romance...

Spending the holiday with friends, as she has for many years, Camilla finds that their private absorptions - Frances with her...

The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his...

An orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena and an artist's servant girl in seventeenth-century...

'"You know,'"Midge began, and paused. She was rather taken aback, and could not at once think of anything to say. "Perhaps...

When Rainclouds Gather: Escaping South Africa and his troubled past, Makehaya crosses the border to Botswana, in the hope of...

The Group follows eight graduates from exclusive Vassar College as they find love and heartbreak, forge careers, gossip and party...

Life is not quite a fairytale for poor Viola. Left penniless, the young widow is forced to live with her late husband s family in...

In Muriel Spark's fantastic first novel, the only things that aren't ambiguous are her matchless originality and glittering...

Jack Boughton - prodigal son - has been gone twenty years. He returns home seeking refuge and to make peace with the past. A bad...

In affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily won by the swift or the fair.

Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife...

From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister to return to the crumbling mansion that was...

The Daylight and the Dust is the most comprehensive selection of Janet Frame's stories ever published, taken from the four...

Since childhood, Claude Wheeler has believed that ‘something splendid’ would restore the faith he had lost in modern life and the...

It is 1939, the last summer before the outbreak of war. French actress Angele Maury abandons a group of friends travelling...

Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient...

A rich and suggestive work which contrasts the middle-aged disillusion of Professor St Peter with his memories of his favourite...

Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.

In...

Edith Wharton (1862-1937), the grande dame of American literature, was also a subtle and spirited critic of its...

In the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy...

Two sisters: Madeleine and Dinah. One husband: Rickie Masters. For many years now, Dinah, exotic and sensual, has conducted a...