When Sarah Burton returns to her hometown as headmistress she is full of ambition, determined to create a great school and to...

Dedmayne Rectory is quietly decaying, its striped chintz and darkened rooms are a bastion of outmoded Victorian values. Here Mary...

Cousin Rosamund unfolds the final chapters of the saga that began with The Fountain Overflows, Rebecca West's acknowleged...

Acknowledged as Rebecca West's fictional masterpiece, The Fountain Overflows introduces the crisis-ridden Aubrey family. This...

It is a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rustling coils of...

Behind this rather prim title lies the hilarious fictional diary of a disaster-prone lady of the 1930s, and her attempts to keep...

Vivid, bawdy and bitter' (The Times), Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh...

Stevie's alter ego Pompey is young, in love and working as a secretary for the magnificent Sir Phoebus Ullwater. In between...

The daughter of a Welsh gypsy and a crazy bee-keeper, Hazel Woodus is happiest living in her forest cottage in the remote...

As the effects of the war raging in Europe begins to be felt at home in London, Monica Dickens decides to do her bit and to...

Two Cultures. Two Families. Two People. Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in...

From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of Palmares, a hidden settlement where...

From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of Palmares, a hidden settlement where...

Susie Boyt writes with a mordant wit and vivid style which are at their best in Loved and Missed.
When your beloved daughter is...

A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother, who meet in...

In Chia-Chia Lin's piercing debut novel, The Unpassing, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet...

It is wartime in Barsetshire, and so much has changed. Belier's Priory is now a hospital for wounded soldiers, and Sir Harry and...

It is 1945. When peace breaks out at last, familiar wartime routines are interrupted, and the residents of Barsetshire seem as...

It is summer 1939 and the social event of the year is about to take place: Rose Birkett, a flighty beauty with a penchant for...

Anna is at a stage of her life when she's beginning to wonder who she really is. She has separated from her husband, her daughter...

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

The estate is called Windcote, 'its very name a masquerade', and its master, the odious Raoul Meridian, has invited a group of...

Rhys Jean, Pym...

Published to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of the Second World War, these are powerful wartime stories written by the...

The mesmerising new thriller, set in the hothouse world of a ballet school, from the bestselling and award-winning writer Megan...

Growing up after the war in Westmere, an English seaside town, Kitty has been sheltered by her parents, but meeting Danny changes...

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

Harlan Jane Eagleton is a faith healer, travelling to small towns, converting sceptics, restoring minds and bodies. But before...

An intense, searing novel exploring the damage of racial and sexual violence.

Eva Medina Canada sits in her psychiatric ward,...

Upon publication in 1975, Corregidora was hailed as a masterpiece, winning acclaim from writers including James Baldwin, Maya...

The stories contained here are as American as jazz, and as wise and multifaceted as their writer. Dorothy West's metier is the...