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The spellbinding story of Lady Chatterley's Lover, and the society that put it on trial, the story of a novel and its ripple effects across half a century, and about the transformative and triumphant power of fiction itself. 'A hugely daring, intrigue-packed, decade-jumping doorstopper that teasingly blends fiction and actuality with wit and panache' DAILY MAIL 'A triumph ... it will conquer your heart' ELIF SHAFAK 'Glorious and arresting ....

Powerful, moving, brilliant . . . an utterly captivating read, and I came away from it with this astonished thought: There's nothing this writer can't do." --Elizabeth GilbertFor readers of A Gentleman in Moscow and Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, an ambitious, spellbinding historical novel about sensuality, censorship, and the novel that set off the sexual revolution. On the glittering shores of the Mediterranean in 1928, a dying author in ex...

The spellbinding story of Lady Chatterley's Lover, and the society that put it on trial, the story of a novel and its ripple effects across half a century, and about the transformative and triumphant power of fiction itself. D. H. Lawrence is dying. Exiled in the Mediterranean, he dreams of the past. There are the years early in his marriage during the war, where his desperation drives him to commit a terrible betrayal. And there is a woman i...

The spellbinding story of Lady Chatterley's Lover, and the society that put it on trial, the story of a novel and its ripple effects across half a century, and about the transformative and triumphant power of fiction itself. 'Tenderness is a triumph and it will conquer your heart. Stunning, illuminating, but also, profoundly moving' ELIF SHAFAK 'Powerful, moving, brilliant ... An utterly captivating read' ELIZABETH GILBERT 'As sublimely cra...

For readers of A Gentleman in Moscow and Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, an ambitious, spellbinding historical novel about sensuality, censorship, and the novel that set off the sexual revolution. On the glittering shores of the Mediterranean in 1928, a dying author in exile races to complete his final novel. Lady Chatterley's Lover is a sexually bold love story, a searing indictment of class distinctions, and a study in sensuality. But the au...

Hovering on the border of life and death, and written with vigorous intelligence and delicate insight, these stories form a ground-shifting collection, taking us into history, literature and the hidden lives of iconic figures. In 1920s Nova Scotia, as winter begins to thaw, a woman wears a new fur coat to a dance that will change everything. A teenager searches for his lover on a charged summer evening in 2011, as around him London erupts in a...

Anne, Tochter eines Dienstmädchens und eines - schwarzen Katers? Irland, Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts. In dieser Welt voll ungewöhnlicher Gestalten, voll Aberglaube, Mythen und Magie verwischen sich die Grenzen zwischen Realität und Phantasie, Natürlichem und Übernatürlichem. Wer ist Annes wahrer Vater? Ist sie ein Junge oder doch ein Mädchen? Die Suche nach der eigenen Identität, nach einem leidenschaftlichen Leben wird zentral. Männerkleider...

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An evocative novel about an English family in Brighton during the shadow of WWII. From the author of "The Wave Theory Of Angels". 'MacLeod's fictions are modern indeed... tender, pierced, translucent...' "Guardian

An evocative collection of short stories which combine memoir and fiction, life and death, past and present and love and loss. The author captures both the joy, tragedy and truths of our existence. 'Like a piece of finely wrought ironwork, uncommonly delicate but at the same time astonishingly strong and tensile... a novel of staggering elegance and beauty' "Independent

Discover some of Canada's best new writers with this highly acclaimed annual anthology, made possible by the generosity of Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener.For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been presenting the best short stories published each year by some of Canada's most exciting new writers. Previous contributors -- including such now well-known, bestselling writers as Yann Martel, Elizabeth Hay, Annabe...

An acutely observed, evocative collection of short stories blending fiction, biography, and memoir--from a Booker-longlisted author.Evocative, sensual, and tender, these stories confront our reality culture and interrogate our relationship with iconic figures, coming to life at the boundary between reality and fiction.A woman emerging from mourning spends her savings on a fur coat, a coat she will wear to a dance that will change her life. A p...