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A wry and unsentimental account of the attempt to understand a parent as an independent person with their own history
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‘I believe that marriage, whether we see it as a psychological relationship or a political one, has determined the story of all...

It was while we were weeding the sorghum field that Mama taught me most of her memories of the Rwanda that used to be. Alas! I’ve...

‘There is no better lycee than Our Lady of the Nile. Nor is there any higher. Twenty-five hundred metres, the white teachers...

'I took the revolver out of his desk drawer and shot him between the eyes.'

Four years before she shoots her husband and walks...

From the author of All Our Yesterdays and The Little Virtues, an epistolary novel full of humanity, passion, and keen...

'Dear Michele, she wrote, I'm writing principally to tell you that your father is sick. Go visit him. He says he hasn't seen you...

'As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great...

'The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing.'

Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful autobiographical...

'It was incredible how fear and danger never produced ignoble words but always true ones, words that were torn from your very...

It is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a...

Hakan Soderstrom is a man who has become a legend. Giant in size, rumoured to be bloodthirsty and fearless, he is known simply as...

Headshot is the story of the eight best teenage girl boxers in the United States, told over the two days of a championship...

When Penguin released a new, unexpurgated edition of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover in 1960 they were charged with the...

Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day and then ages out. Rick Rubin is known for something...

Lynch... , McKenna...

David Lynch – co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking films such as Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue...

Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through...

Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for...

Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at...

Jonathan and Barbara Rose are the perfect couple

… living the dream in their beautiful house, filled with their precious...

The draped effigy just behind him worried him again. He had been trying, at the back of his mind, behind the other thoughts, to...

'The beauty of the scene was strangely uplifting. Yet, ever at the back of his thoughts, lay that other aspect of the wilderness:...

Dylan Thomas wrote some of the best-known and best-loved poems of the twentieth century, amongst them ‘Do not go gentle into that...

A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer...

Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and...

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his...

Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the...

Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and...

A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer...

Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and...