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This haunting, elegiac novel captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy—particularly Ferrara—in the last summers of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving imperceptibly towards its doom. Vittorio De Sica adapted the book into a film in 1970, winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974.

'A comic masterpiece' —Patrick Gale, Guardian. Pillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family. This is their story—his brandy-swilling wife, their hapless offspring, and their changing fortunes—over the decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner's last novel, The Flint Anchor, gloriously overturns our ideas of history, family, and storytelling itself.

With an introduction by Meg Rosoff, William Golding’s final novel, left in draft at his death, tells the story of a priestess of Apollo. Arieka is one of the last to prophesy at Delphi, in the shadowy years when the Romans were securing their grip on the tribes and cities of Greece. The plain, unloved daughter of a local grandee, she is rescued from the contempt and neglect of her family by her Delphic role. Her ambiguous attitude to the god and her belief in him seem to move in parallel with the decline of the god himself - but things are more complicated than they appear.

He lives deep in the forest in the time of King Wenceslas, in a village older than record. The young man's hero-worship of the charming highwayman, Wat, is tempered by growing suspicion of Wat's cold savagery, and his fear of the sorcerous powers of Mother Cloot is tempered by her kindness. He must decide which of these powers to stand by in the coming battle between Good and Evil that not even his isolated village will be able to avoid. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A long-forgotten Beat poet brought back to life in utterly fantastical fashion. In beautifully vivid journal entries, Black poet Mardou Fox chronicles her 1950s and '60s experiences with the Beat Generation - and her adventures in the mysterious, otherworldly realm "over the fence." Characters based on star Beat authors like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac fight alongside Mardou or battle against her as she challenges racism and sexism to win happiness, freedom, and respect for her work. Are the answers she's seeking shrouded in the mists of magic?

This novel tells the story of Alfred Cameron and his family, who enjoy a life of luxury. However, their family firm faces a growing threat from the encroaching railways and the determined Luther Gunnet, who will stop at nothing to lift his family out of the slums.

Set after the events of Everfair, espionage, betrayal, and political intrigue follow, when the estranged son of a founding member of Everfair visits his sister in Zanzibar. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Reesor Siding, Nord de l'Ontario, nuit du 10 au 11 février 1963. Un affrontement en forêt fait trois morts. Quelques semaines avant la nuit du drame, les travailleurs de la Spruce Falls Power and Paper Company déclenchent une grève. Or, les cultivateurs des environs, qui possèdent des droits de coupe, continuent de vendre leur bois à la papetière, au grand dam des ouvriers. Pierre Ménard est l'un de ceux-là. Il fréquente Madeleine, dont le père, Hermas, est en grève. Pris dans ce climat de tension, les deux hommes se retrouvent dans des camps opposés.

Goliarda Sapienza's The Art of Joy was written over a nine year span, from 1967 to 1976. At the time of her death in 1996, Sapienza had published nothing in a decade, having been unable to find a publisher for what was to become her most celebrated work, due to its perceived immorality. One publisher's rejection letter exclaimed: 'It's a pile of iniquity.' The manuscript lay for decades in a chest finally being proclaimed a "forgotten masterpiece" when it was eventually published in 2005.

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