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“I would like to write a beautiful prayer,” writes the young Flannery O’Connor in this deeply spiritual journal, recently discovered among her papers in Georgia.

My life as a Kane was lit in the indigos, aquamarines, and magentas of a home built on quiet faith and prayer. But Johnny changed all that.

This classic work of world literature by the 1994 Japanese Nobel laureate is a devastating and moving blend of memoir and fiction.

From Wanda Taylor, a delicious new novel about food, friendship and the power of poetry.

Time Out Chicago, Top 10 Book of 2005. Winner of the 2006 PEN USA Literary Award for Fiction.

En suivant le quotidien d'Hannah, jeune itinérante de Toronto qui rêve de bord de mer alors qu'elle dérive de rue en rue, puis le tangage de Carol qui accouchera dans une ruelle putrid

Recipient of the 2018 William F.

"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

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.