Product Description: From the award-winning author of The Mistress of Nothing comes a highly imaginative story of colliding worlds and extraordinary connections, revealing the tenuous, often unexpected ties that bind us together.When everything was falling apart, someone fell into place… Suburban London housewife Harriet spends her days doing what she’s worst at...read more

Winner of Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award, this richly rendered American debut captures the life of a lady's maid on her journey from the confines of Victorian England to the uncharted reaches of Egypt's Nile Valley, awakening first love, testing loyalties, and discovering freedom has a price. When Lady Duff Gordon, toast of Victorian London society, departs for the hot, dry climate of Egypt to seek relief from the debilitating effects of her tuberculosis, Sally doesn't think twice about remaining by her mistress' side. Sally and Lady Duff Gordon throw themselves into their exotic surroundings, adopting native dress, learning Arabic, and visiting the tombs of ancient pharaohs. Along the way, Sally comes to experience freedoms she, as a servant, has never known before, as well as her first taste of romance. But freedom is a luxury that a maid can ill afford, and when Sally grasps for more than status entitles her to, she is brutally reminded that she is mistress of nothing. Ultimately, she must choose her master and a way back -- or a way to the unknown. Based on the real lives of Lady Duff Gordon and her maid, The Mistress of Nothing is a lush, sometimes dark portrait of forbidden love, tested loyalties, and finding an unexpected new definition of ''home'' -- a compelling story that will take listeners on a journey they will not soon forget.

Product Description: Winner of Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award, this richly rendered American debut captures the life of a lady's maid on her journey from the confines of Victorian England to the uncharted reaches of Egypt's Nile Valley, awakening first love, testing loyalties, and discovering freedom has a price...read more

The American debut of an award-winning novel about a lady’s maid’s awakening as she journeys from the confines of Victorian England to the uncharted far reaches of Egypt’s Nile Valley When Lady Duff Gordon, paragon of London society, departs for the hot, dry climate of Egypt to seek relief from her debilitating tuberculosis, her lady’s maid, Sally, doesn’t hesitate to leave the only world she has known in order to remain at her mistress’s side. As Sally gets farther and farther from home, she experiences freedoms she has never known—forgoing corsets and wearing native dress, learning Arabic, and having her first taste of romance. But freedom is a luxury that a lady’s maid can ill afford, and when Sally’s newfound passion for life causes her to forget what she is entitled to, she is brutally reminded she is mistress of nothing. Ultimately she must choose her master and a way back home—or a way to an unknown future. Based on the real lives of Lady Duff Gordon and her maid, The Mistress of Nothing is a lush, erotic, and compelling story about the power of race, class, and love

Fran has been married to Nick for more than 12 years, since they were eighteen. They are happy together until a 'little stranger' arrives, in the form of baby Louis, and their lives are irrevocably changed. The boy has good health and a sweet nature, but Fran feels stifled, her old life merely a memory. So, one day, she simply walks away.

Presents a collection of short stories, which includes contributions by writers such as Patricia Duncker, Rachel Cusk, Tessa Hadley, Emily Perkins, Nancy Lee and Kate Pullinger as well as the twelve voices of those shortlisted for the Asham Short-Story Award 2007.

A collection of short stories by women.

Product Description: When the first Asham Award was launched in 1996 - in honour of Asham House, the house in Sussex where Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived - nearly a thousand unknown women writers took part. The first anthology of winning stories, published a year later and entitled The Catch, demonstrated not only the rich cultural mix of our society today, but the huge range of largely untapped talent in towns and villages across the UK...read more

Product Description: The 2001 Asham Literary Trust competiton attracted more than nine hundred entries of which the judges selected 12, which are published here together with commissioned stories by Louise Doughty, Patricia Duncker, A.L. Kennedy, Elena Lappin, Kate Pullinger, and Carol Shields...read more

Product Description: Over the ages, many writers have taken up drawing as a distraction from their literary labors. This beautifully-produced volume includes both color and black-and-white drawings, as well as quotes on the visual arts, from Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Dylan Thomas, Anais Nin, James Thurber, George Sand, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and many others...read more

Product Description: A novel about obsession and possession, tracing the relationship of two infatuated lovers in all of its painful complications. As the object of Stephen's desire becomes promiscuous and wilful, he is forced to reflect on the grey area where the pleasure of a relationship ends, and pain begins...read more

Product Description: WINNER OF THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY. In her award-winning film THE PIANO, Jane Campion told a love story that transfixed millions the world over. Although she had already spent ten years writing and making the film, Campion continued to be haunted by her characters and decided to tell the whole story...read more

Ada, who has not spoken since she was six-years-old, travels to New Zealand for an arranged marriage, which is immediately strained when her new husband refuses to transport her piano to their home

A collection of short stories depicts the hardships and wide range of emotions caused by living in exile

Product Description: sort of an anthropologic look at gambling from ancient sanskritt to Las Vegas.