This novel portrays the lives of two women in New Zealand. Deidre Byrne’s fulfilling career as a nurse is cut short when she marries, while Sarah Dutton falls in love with...
In a Glasgow post office, Nan Megratta collects illegible, damaged and defaced letters and delivers them to their destinations. The Returned Letters Section offers her ano...
Banned within hours of publication in her native Mauritius for enraging fundamentalists, Lindsey Collen's pathbreaking The Rape of Sita went on to win the prestigious Comm...
A novel set in a fishing village on the Scottish coast, where everyone knows everybody else's business and gossip abounds. The centre of this world is a cafe and the large...
Inis has run away from her husband and children. Her new neighbour Trixie is eighty-four years old and a hymn-singing Salvation Army veteran. Trixie's life is one of appar...
"In Latin, suffering and passion come from the same root," observes Alice Forrester, the wry heroine of this poignant and sardonically witty debut. And who would know bett...
Here is the perfect novel for everyone who ever felt manipulated and lied to in a relationship, for everyone who ever thought they were sane and it was the doctors and psy...
The ferociously talented author of Original Bliss and On Bullfighting offers this haunting tale of two forlorn people who find in each other a hope and love as genuine and...
A passionate and perceptive story full of the pain and the humour of growing up, from Andrea Levy, author of the Orange Prize winning SMALL ISLAND and the Man Booker short...
The year is 1788, the place New South Wales. Marine Lieutenant William Dawes has arrived in the Antipodes to build an observatory, reform the convicts and understand the ...
Independent, irresistible Helen MacFarquhar is the owner of a bookstore in an idyllic seaside town in New England. A happily divorced mother who enjoys a playful relations...
In the late 19th century, an English missionary arrives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping our fornication among the natives. Instead he incurs a cur...
It?s 1968, and Frannie and Doris, sisters and spinsters, are finally freed from family ties and constraints when their father dies. Taking off in their Plymouth Valiant th...
The story of a passionate affair between journalist, Noah John and a brilliant new photographer, Lilith de Vinci. Set against the dramatic world events that followed the f...
The story of one woman's search for home and family details the abduction of an infant and revelation of a middle-aged woman who begins to remember her shadow-life as the ...
The inaugural winner of England's prestigious Orange Prize, A Spell of Winter is a compelling turn-of-the-century tale of innocence corrupted by secrecy, and the grace of ...
По официальной версии, Делия - женщина 40 лет, мать троих детей, жена врача из небольшого респектабельного города, пропала. На самом деле она просто ушла куда глаза глядят...
Эми Тан, американка в первом поколении, пишет о хорошо знакомой ей среде выходцев из Китая. Внешняя канва повествования - история двух сестер, Оливии и Кван. Однако мир др...
The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of a character, an account of one woman’s inexorable evolution evoked in startling and magic...