Product Description: Fiction. In the late nineteenth century, in Washington Square, two children play with a red balloon...and so begins the strange romance between Daniel, beautiful and tiny, and Grace, known as The Fat Princess, an orphaned girl whose enormous girth matches her wealth...read more

Product Description: This wide-ranging handbook is aimed at students who want to develop their fiction writing skills. Reading and reflective practice are foregrounded, and students are given constant recommendations of what they might read. Imaginative and accessible, this companionable handbook is clearly and innovatively structured around the processes and techniques of developing writing...read more

Ursula Trench, accused at seventeen of murdering her infant half-brother, and living the rest of her life in a convent, becomes the obsession of Father Aymon Devlin, who is determined to learn the truth