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"My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull sp

With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades.

This collection of stories, arguably Sylvia Townsend Warner's most luminous, was first published in 1966 and includes "A Love Match," hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "a supre

It's a wonder to behold what happens when love moves in. Former child star Fiona Hume deserted the movie biz a decade ago—right after she left rehab.

A Treasonable Growth was Ronald Blythe's first book and only novel.

In the mid-1940s, Sybille Bedford set off from Grand Central Station for Mexico, accompanied by her friend E., a hamper of food and drink (Virginia ham, cherries, watercress, a flute of bread, Port

"[A] beguiling memoir of family and culture." -O, The Oprah Magazine.

"An exceptionally good book . . . worthy to stand on the nature shelf of anyone interested in mountainous America." - The New York Times.

A "challenging and rewarding novel" from Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke. The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe.

A respected literary biographer, Mark is working on the life of Gilbert Strong - a writer about whom he thinks he knows everything.

"Those who gravitate to the regions where fiction, poetry, imaginative flights, and speculative fancy converge constitute Handke's natural audience." —Publishers Weekly.

Elle sait à peine prononcer son nom, Adikou, que la narratrice décrit tour à tour comme un lézard et comme un vautour, un double et une étrangère.

Can anyone even see me? As a woman, it’s so easy to feel invisible. Amid the exhaustion of day-to-day life, it’s hard not to wonder: Does anyone see my effort, my struggles?

'She has a talent amounting to genius' John Updike. Don Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, as rumoured - or has he escaped?

"Immersive from the get-go, this novel is a quick-paced gem.