“Earth and High Heaven” is, simply, a drama of human relationships — of two people in love who are confronted by the obstacle of racial intolerance — presented with such cutting truth, such fidelity to life, such compassion and...
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Lush prose and penetrating psychological insight infuse Conrad’s first novel with the qualities that have made him one of the most popular and most studied writers in English literature. The novel chronicles the tragic decline of a Dutch merchant...
The Farm by the...
Heading Inland is a funny, broody, saucy collection of stories about the kind of people you sometimes meet but might prefer to ignore.
Barker creates a wonderfully fantastical and unimaginable world: an unborn baby escapes an unsuitable mother...
In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern classic of Scottish literature about a doomed adolescent growing up in the mid-20th century — featuring a new introduction by Maggie O’Farrell,...
The Square Peg or The Gun...
In a remote house on the English Channel coast, a group of people, handsome and young, are gathered: Scylla Taverner, ‘sometimes a witch and sometimes a bitch’, her potential lover Picus, her brother Felix and two other friends. Into their close...
Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he’s old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the worst...
Ernest Hemingway’s novella The Torrents of Spring examines writers and their way of life. Released in 1926, the same year as The Sun Also Rises, the entertaining story of Yogi Johnson and Scripps O’Neill is often overlooked in favour of the...
This Was Ivor...