Little Tales of Misogyny is Highsmith's legendary, cultish short-story collection. With an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith...

'Ramon had done it. Obviously! He thought about Ramon, his Catholic soul trapped in his passion for Lelia. He'd find Ramon and...

A classic tale of fantasy and self-delusion from one of the most acclaimed British novelists of the twentieth century

Writing...

'His first instinct was to stretch out his hands to the sky. The white clouds seemed so near to him, surely they were easy to...

Samantha Raymond's life has begun to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and she finds...

On a trip to the South of France, the shy heroine of Rebecca falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower. Although his...

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...

Susan Ferrier sold more copies of her novels than her contemporary, Jane Austen. Sir Walter Scott declared her his equal. Why,...

Joy - also called Blossom, Sunshine and Blondie by the men in her life - walks down Fulham Broadway carrying her week-old baby,...

Atwood's second novel, hailed by the New York Times as 'one of the most important novels of the twentieth century'.

A young...

Suppressed by the author during her lifetime, this is Rebecca West's fictionalized account of her obsessive love for Lord...

'Who would suspect her sense of fun and irony, of a passionate love for beauty and the power to drag it from its hidden places?...

In Regency London, the only way for a woman to succeed is to beat men at their own game. So when Mary Anne Clarke seeks an escape...

The final volume in the extraordinary speculative fiction trilogy - a decade in the making - from one of the greatest writers in...

A gritty, beautiful and darkly funny book of linked stories covering twenty years in the lives of a group of intertwined people...

Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable...

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

‘During that burning day when we were crossing Iowa, our talk kept returning to a central figure, a Bohemian girl whom we had...

Both a spellbinding love story and a superb evocation of Cornwall's mythic past, Castle Dor is a book with unique and fascinating...

A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.

When a woman...

These wise and witty writings home in on Shakespeare, tree stumps, ecological disasters, bodies (male and female), and theology,...

New York City, 1940s. In a crumbling tenement in Harlem, Lutie Johnson is determined to build a new life for herself and her...

'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?'

Melinda Van Allen is beautiful,...

From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband, from writer of...

In the bitter November wind, Mary Yellan crosses Bodmin Moor to Jamaica Inn. Her mother's dying wish was that she take refuge...

A portrait of a woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them and whose transformations embody the...

It's Saturday, past midnight, and thick fog rolls in from the river like smoke. Link Williams is standing on the dock when he...

In the bitter November wind, Mary Yellan crosses Bodmin Moor to Jamaica Inn. Her mother's dying wish was that she take refuge...

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

The scar drew her whole face sideways and even in profile, with the hideous thing turned away, her face was horribly lop-sided,...