'Oh, it seems so wonderful that I'm going to live with you and belong to you. I've never belonged to anybody'

When a scrawny,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrenched this small literary masterpiece from her own experience. Narrated with superb psychological...

For as long as she could remember, Jane Stuart and her mother lived with her grandmother in a dreary mansion in Toronto. Jane...

An unforgettable picture of love, loss and the keeping up of appearances. Published as part of a beautifully designed series to...

An epic of biblical proportions, The Year of the Flood is a feast of imagination and a journey to the end of the world.

Adam...

Dulcie Mainwaring is always helping others, but never looks out for herself - especially in the realm of love. Her friend Viola...

This is the first time Elizabeth Taylor's short stories have been collected in one volume. This publication is to mark the...

'When you come to the house, you will hear strange tales. They will tell you in the village that it is haunted, but you must not...

The people of Mount Salus, Mississippi always felt good about Judge McKelva. He was a quiet, solid reassuring figure, just as a...

Intelligent and haunting, with echoes of Brief Encounter, this is a love story by one of the best British writers of the 20th...

Poppy, newly recruited cub reporter at the Downingham Post, is determined to prove to the editor that he's wrong in his belief...

Shena Mackay, who first came to fame before the age of twenty with two novellas, is the doyenne of the short form. In this volume...

Published to celebrate the centenary of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers, this is the most comprehensive...

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

Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife...

Conjuring up the past in all its complexity, horror and pleasures, In The Name of the Family confirms Sarah Dunant's place as the...

When Mrs Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett he is a pisseur de copie , that he urinates frightful prose , little does she realise the...

When Mrs Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett he is a pisseur de copie , that he urinates frightful prose , little does she realise the...

A chance encounter with the man who enchanted her as a teenager leads Olivia Curtis into to a forbidden love affair. He is now...

A woman visits a friend with terminal cancer. Brilliant, strong-willed and alone, the friend, facing death, makes a momentous...

'How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then...

'How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then...

Based on a true story, unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazis, this gripping tale is about beauty and...

On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining...

When Prince Charming is murdered and the principal dancer hits the bottle, amateur sleuths Miriam Birdseye and Natasha Nevkorina...

The breathtaking historical novel about love, beauty, the politics of sex and the power of loyalty set in Venice, by the...

John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter's death. But when they encounter two old...

In these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy new England a...

This volume of newly discovered stories will be an exciting discovery for Streatfeild fans of all ages. By the beloved author of...

Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales. This stunning...

Here are all Grace Paley's classic stories in one volume. Paley's quirky, boisterous characters and rich use of language won her...