From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a short story about a young girl's experience of growing up in an unnamed African country.
A poignant story of love and redemption, The Moon Field explores the loss of innocence through a war that destroys everything except the bonds of human hearts.
A darkly humorous reckoning of our modern condition - spam mail, internships, frenemies and hype - and the story of Anna's quest for the meaningful life she knows she deserves.
The stunning final book in the critically acclaimed Seven Realms epic fantasy series from Cinda Williams ChimaA thousand years ago, two young lovers were betrayed - Alger Waterlow to his death, and Hanalea, Queen of the Fells, to a life without love.
The first in The Rotters' Club series, bestselling author Jonathan Coe's iconic tale of Benjamin Trotter is a hilarious, heartfelt celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up WINNER OF THE EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE__________Birmingham, England, c.
THE HILARIOUS COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ABOUT A BOY'Touching, very funny' Guardian __________________ 'There was this time when everything seemed to have come together.
Exquisite Indian short storiesLukose is ready to follow in his grandfather's footsteps and enter the priesthood; Anna's parents are drowned as they make their way to a wedding by boat and she must now go and live with her uncle and his Italian wife in Rome; Chako, a doctor, meets a sad little girl whose mother has run away, and then, many years later, he encounters the mother at a party but cannot bear to share with her his knowledge of her daughter.
From the acclaimed author of CLOUD NINE, a new novel that 'touches the deepest, most tender corners of the heart', a story of poignance and heartbreak, grace and courage.
A female Trainspotting about a young woman who is a romantic but is also determined to overcome the depression of inner-city living in 90s Britain and carve out a life for herself - even if it does means she must become a selfish person to do so.
As with her successful debut SELFISH PEOPLE, Bristol based Lucy English's second novel, set in Provence and Bath, features a bohemian heroine, and describes an ongoing rebellion within a family of each generation against the last.
Sharp, streetwise and totally engaging, Good Bad Woman is a slice of London life with a twist, and the first in a new series featuring the irresistible Frankie RichmondFrankie Richmond is a London barrister long on attitude and short on lucrative work.
Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, this is the new novel from the author of 'King of the Badgers' and the Man Booker-shortlisted 'The Northern Clemency'.