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Muriel Spark
A Far Cry From Kensington

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I can't help it. Sometimes the words just come out and I can't stop them. It feels like preaching the gospel. [large quote]When publishing assistant and war widow Nancy Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett that …

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Gayl Jones
Corregidora

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No novel about any Black woman could ever be the same after this' TONI MORRISONI dreamed with my eyes open. All the Corregidora women with narrow waists and high cheekbones and wide hips. All the Corregid…

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Barbara Pym
Excellent Women

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INTRODUCED BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITHMildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who are often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations or even the gr…

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Mary Renault
Fire from Heaven

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INTRODUCED BY TOM HOLLAND He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid'. Alexander is born to rule. Caught in a power struggle for his…

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Nettie Jones
Fish Tales

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THE DAZZLING LOST CLASSIC *A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2025* *A Cosmopolitan Best Book for April 2025* *A New York Times Book Review Most-Anticipated Book of the Spring* *A Time Best Book of the Mo…

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Rumer Godden
Five for Sorrow Ten for Joy

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BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BLACK NARCISSUS AND THE RIVER'One of our best and most captivating novelists' PHILIP HENSHER'Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy is about growth, choice, struggle, and the freedom of…

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Mary Renault
Funeral Games

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'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat' SARAH WATERSThe heavens say it begins with the death of the King .…

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Susanna Kaysen
Girl, Interrupted

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Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.In 1967, after a session with a psych…

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Molly Keane
Good Behaviour

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We kept our heads above the morass, stifled screaming despairs only by the exercise of Good Behaviour.Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family is sinking into a sta…

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Daphne Du Maurier
I'll Never Be Young Again

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A COMING-OF-AGE TALE OF ADVENTURE AND LOVE, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN'One of the last century's most original literar…

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Rumer Godden
In this House of Brede

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INTRODUCED BY LAUREN GROFF'Rumer Godden's novels have a timeless shimmer' GUARDIAN'One hundred years after her birth, Rumer Godden's novels still pulse with life' MATTHEW DENNISON, TELEGRAPH'Her craftsman…

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Daphne Du Maurier
Mary Anne

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'This novel catches fire'NEW YORK TIMESDISCOVER THIS THRILLING STORY OF DESIRE AND AMBITION FROM THE AUTHOR OF REBECCAShe set men's hearts on fire and scandalized a country.In Regency London, the only way…

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Daphne Du Maurier
Rebecca

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He did not belong to me at all. He belonged to Rebecca.'The greatest psychological thriller of all time' ERIN KELLY 'Du Maurier created a scale by which modern women can measure their feelings' STEPHEN KI…

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Vera Brittain
Testament Of Youth

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In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimagin…

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Rumer Godden
The Dark Horse

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By the author of Black Narcissus and The River'[Godden's] distinctive, poised and unsentimental books have never lost a shred of their almost hypnotic appeal' ROSIE THOMAS, GUARDIAN'One of our best and mo…

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Fran Lebowitz
The Fran Lebowitz Reader

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Contrary to what many of you might imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to actually sit down and write.Acerbi…

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Daphne Du Maurier
The Parasites

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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'Wickedly readable . . . every woman instinctively wants to read her'NEW YORK TIM ES BOOK REVIEW'A tale of dramatic longings . . . unexpected and fun' MARGARET DRABBL…

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Mary Renault
The Persian Boy

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INTRODUCED BY SEÁN HEWITTI thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a king. And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.Bagoas,…

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Ann Petry
The Street

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From the time she was born, she had been hemmed into an ever-narrowing space, until now she was very nearly walled in . . .New York City, 1940s. In a crumbling tenement in Harlem, Lutie Johnson is determi…

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Elizabeth Jenkins
The Tortoise And The Hare

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The re-dipping of dishes was a small matter, but the emotional texture of married life is made up of small matters. This one had become invested with a fatal quality.Imogen, the beautiful and much younger…

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