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A wonderfully honest and deeply accomplished tribute to a complicated, talented mother and writer - 'An Irish writer whose only equal is Elizabeth Bowen' (Bookseller) - by her daughter.

A phone call in the night, an unexpected diagnosis, a shocking revelation - suddenly life can change forever.¿It¿s been here, in this bedroom, with Jack and without him, that she has found her only privacy. But now she¿s surrounded, day and night, by care.Yesterday she told Colleen and Jude that her dying has changed people more than anything else she can think of, and she watched their fixed smiles as it dawned on them that this is what she w...

Daughters and Dames, poets and politicians, composer and psychoanalyst, academics and activists, broadcasters and barristers, mothers and sisters, novelists and impresarios, journalists and comedians, doctor and playwright, cultural commentators and artists, wives and writers. Here are fifty shades and more, of women who think, who act, who inspire - in technicolour. . Naomi AldermanTahmima AnamLisa AppignanesiMargaret AtwoodJoan BakewellCamil...

Vietnamese edition of Peyton Place. A contemporary classic that had created a wave of publicity in the 50s, especially with the film version starring Lana Turner, and Hope Lange, among others... The deep dark secret of a little New England town became the back bone of a long running TV series... Vietnamese translation by Ta Thu Ha. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Ellen Melville is a beautiful suffragette who, at seventeen, wants passionately to experience all that life can give her. From her abandoned, impoverished mother she inherits only a capacity for love and this she freely gives when she meets Richard Yaverland, charming, experienced, a man of the world. But Richard is the illegitamate son of a powerful and frustrated woman. Marion Yaverland uses her own betrayal by Richard's father to imprison h...

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*A rich, dark novel of buried secrets, new desires and a new land from the bestselling author of THE ACTRESSES* A novel of 50s New Zealand, as haunting and evocative as HEAVENLY CREATURES

A thoughtful, funny memoir on the realities of immigration' Guardian'Ebullient and sharply humorous about the conflicts and confusions of growing up and adapting to a country (and family) in a constant state of political flux and, often, social fantasy' The TimesMr Hai arrived in London in 1964. But, while becoming British via a passport had been relatively easy, becoming English was something to be studied - and then passed on, first to his w...

Katie Roiphe explores the unconventional relationships between renowned writers and artists - a fascinating combination of high-society gossip and historical enquiry

A modern twist on "The Twelve Days of Christmas, " this collection of playful tales makes a perfect holday gift. "On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me..." From a partridge in a pear tree to twelve drummers drumming, here is a collection sure to please even the Scroogiest of readers. Taking the classic Christmas song as inspiration, these twelve stories from some of Britain's finest contemporary writers are in turn playful, fun...

*A brilliant comic novel about Anglo-Ireland that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. *'A mistress of wicked comedy' MALCOLM BRADBURY, VOGUE