In this prescient novel, Daphne du Maurier explores the implications of leaving Europe for a political, economic and military...

Set in London and Monmouth in the late 1700s, this is an extraordinary novel about Mary Saunders, the young daughter of a poor...

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...

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

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

This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are...

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

Melinda Van Allen is beautiful,...

Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in...

Together yet alone, the Misses Bede occupy the central crossroads of parish life. Harriet, plump, elegant and jolly, likes...

If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reunion, neither of them is aware...

'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...

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

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

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

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

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

Melinda Van Allen is beautiful,...

Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in...

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

Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties for young academics and acting as watchdog for the morals of North...

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

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

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

The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place.

Among the protagonists is...

In a pitiless story of prying suburban self-righteousness, Patricia Highsmith introduces the Alderman family as they descend into...

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

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

Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern Classics.

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Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when he...

To his parents' dismay, Colin Keith - out of the noble but misplaced sense of duty peculiar to high-minded young university...

Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient...