'My life changed. It had been restricted by invisible barriers almost as effectively as the physically restricted lives of my...

From Mexico to the Arctic ice, grey whale mothers swim with their calves. Following them, by bus, train and ferry, are Doreen and...

Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving...

'Though she wounded me beyond pain, I too inflicted deep hurt. Not born to murder her, still I sought to break her... Her name...

'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.'

So begins this...

The first story Selma Blair Beitner ever heard about herself is that she was a mean, mean baby. Although Selma went on to become...

Dauntless Liza Jarrett, born at the dawn of the twentieth century, is now in her eighties, frail and facing eviction with her...

Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well...

First published in 1962 as 'La Placa del Diamant', this is considered the most important Catalan novel of all time. This is a new...

'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how...

Hungry Hill is a passionate story told with du Maurier's unique gift for drama. It follows five generations of an Irish family...

Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Though...

Atwood... , Shamsie...

A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers.

Dragon. Tygress. She-Devil....

Atwood... , Shamsie...

A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers.

Dragon. Tygress. She-Devil....

In the final novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader...

In the first novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader...

Emily never imagined Aunt Elizabeth would allow her to go to high school in Shrewsbury, and she's thrilled, especially as her...

'I did a dreadful thing, the worst thing of my life, when I was twelve and a half years old, and nothing can change it'

It is...

Newly married and with a baby on the way, Jacy has everything she ever wanted. When she and her husband, Jed, go to visit his...

Maya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love, longing, partings; of Saturday night...

Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography, beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, are a testament to the talents and...

In September 1941, a young American woman strides up the steps of a hotel in Lyon, Vichy France. Her papers say she is a...

It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenage son Guy, to finish...

At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not unusual for residents to invent stories. So when elderly Ms Mook first begins to...

'This crazy world whirled around her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds are mechanical and the few...

A prize-winning tour de force when it came out in France, this brilliant translation of Violaine Huisman's 'witty, immersive...

Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another woman. The fact that this woman has a...

One of the most brilliant writers of her day, George Eliot (1819-1880) was also one of the most talked about. Intellectual and...

Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books. Careless people tells the true...

The basis for Powell & Pressburger's Academy Award-winning 1947 film, Rumer Godden's much-admired classic novel tells the story...