A Room Of One's Own

Ia Genberg

'A delightful and exquisitely executed literary mini-study that brings to mind Joan Didion' - Expressen 'I haven't read anything better this year' - Sydsvenskan 'Her humour and delight in language make the stories crackle with life' - Svenska Dagbladet 'Genberg captures, with intelligence and insight, the afflictions of our time' - Göteborgs-Posten _______ 'You know, love is...

Eduardo Halfon

Winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger in France and the Premio de la Critica in Spain Conversation-starting and prize-winning international fiction: an extraordinary meditation on violence, conspiracy and the many complex afterlives of the Holocaust Eduardo and his brother have been living in the US for three years when their parents send them back to Guatemala for the holidays. ...

Carys Shannon

In a small estuary village on the Welsh coast, Catrin is mourning the anniversary of her mother's drowning when a teenage girl disappears on the same mudflats. Terrified of history repeating itself and driven by unresolved grief, Catrin becomes obsessed with finding Emily. Her search dredges up secrets from the village's past and present, uncovering far more than the missing gi...

Han Kang

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR FOYLES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 AN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY SO FAR Like a long winter's dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful history 'One of the most profound and skilled writers working on the co...

Jessica Stanley

Discover the joyful, funny love story everyone is falling for - perfect for fans of BRIDGET JONES, ONE DAY, and NORMAL PEOPLE. A NATALIE PORTMAN'S BOOK CLUB PICK 'A MUST-READ . . . LIKE ONE DAY AND NORMAL PEOPLE' THE TIMES 'FUNNY, SMART AND MEMORABLE . . . A DELIGHTFUL NOVEL' NEW YORK TIMES 'AS WARM AS A DAVID NICHOLLS NOVEL' STYLIST 'A BRILLIANT BOOK THAT HITS ALL THE RIGHT N...

Stephanie Sy-Quia

His grandfather had been a Catholic priest. A story in seven words, and his life the unsolved mystery.Rome, 1953. David is young, handsome, charismatic, and sworn to celibacy. He is freshly ordained, and about to return to England to begin life as a priest. Devotion to God is all he's ever known, and all he thinks he ever will.In London, Margaret is entangled in an impossible l...

Virginia Woolf

Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature.Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and look striking on any shelf.Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, first published in 1925, examines one day in the l...

Virginia Woolf

'A brilliant fantasia of all Time's problems, age and youth, change and permanence, truth and illusion' The Times Literary SupplementThe Years is the story of the Pargiter family - their intimacies and estrangements, anxieties and triumphs - mapped out against the bustling rhythms of London's streets during the first decades of the twentieth century, as their Victorian upbringi...

Virginia Woolf

'Sally stopped; picked a flower; kissed her on the lips.'On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax in Woolf's great novel of time, memory, wa...

Virginia Woolf

'The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening'To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotlan...

Virginia Woolf

With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the...

Virginia Woolf

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