Product Description: The award-winning author of Minor Characters writes with delicious transparency about a love that cannot be harnessed and a woman who refuses to be deceived In the great wave of husband-leaving ushered in by the Sexual Revolution, Molly Held frees herself from her cold, flagrantly unfaithful husband after their final quarrel turns violent...read more

Product Description: After a failed business venture and a broken engagement, artist Abbie Richards takes advantage of an opportunity to do a year's English teaching in Sicily. There, she becomes involved with the large, extended Puzzi family: its members wealthy and powerfully placed in the community...read more

Product Description: Young widow Fleur Weston starts a new life when she turns her mother's legacy, Manoir de Belvoir, into a successful hotel and restaurant. Fleur and her small daughter love their French life, but the Manoir holds dark secrets.

Product Description: Wedding plans in ruins, Briony Gordon immerses herself in her job as senior wine buyer at Lapwing's Wine Merchants until a dramatic turn of events forces her to reconsider her future. A substantial legacy from her beloved Grandfather gives her the incentive to explore new possibilities...read more

Product Description: This story is intended to reach the readers by sharing my experience as a stepchild and being brought up with people who really embraced and loved me for who I was. In experiencing these writings, one would understand how to overcome his or her ups and downs and enjoy the beauty of life and its surroundings, even for short periods of times, through the roller coaster of life...read more

This book shows how Bessie Head used her engagement with sociopolitical issues to convey her ideas about the art of fiction and the operations of the creative imagination. It relates Head's literary practice to goals that she set for herself as a 'beginning' writer, and, in view of the importance that she attached to reading as a stimulant of the imagination, pays special attention to the influence of her reading on her writing. Head's reading helped her both to define her role as a creative writer and to develop complex structures of meaning in her fiction. The book identifies correspondences between Head's works and those of predecessors in Western scribal tradition and shows how she relates other traditions to her local oral tradition. It thus examines Head's methods of combining thematic and imagistic elements, her delineation of character, her texturing of language, and other aspects of her literary practice.

Product Description: In the late 1950s, a handful of artists from the countercultural circles of New York and San Francisco who coincided in their artistic postulates and in their rejection of the conventions of their time, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Willem de Kooning, and William S...read more

Product Description: With the support of a loving family, Julie Haywood is coping well with the trauma of divorce and the difficulties of single parenthood. Well on track with her medical career, she is looking forward to an exciting new promotion - not realising it will bring her into contact with Rob, a part of her past she has tried to forget...read more

A new memoir by the author of Minor Characters provides a unique female perspective on the dramatic implications of growing up fatherless, from her birth, childhood, and youth without a male figure in her life, through her unsuccessful marriages to two fatherless artists, to her adventures as a stage child managed by her mother, to own evolution into an artist in her own right. Reprint.

Product Description: To Alice Foster, Jim Peterson's proposal of marriage from Australia is a passport to a better life. Full of hope, she arrives in Fremantle with her young brother, Tom, to be met by notorious gambler Frank Crossley, who is looking for cheap labour...read more

Product Description: After personal and professional disaster in America, Crystal Tempest, a qualified surveyor, had returned to England to rebuild her life. Her uncle, the managing director of a large construction company, agreed to employ her on condition that she worked on a building site for six months, telling no-one that she was his niece...read more

A collection of poignant love letters between Jack Kerouac and Joyce Glassman reveals a tender, loving side to a writer famous for his rough exterior and moody ways. Reprint.