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

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...

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...

'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...

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

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...

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