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Barbara Pym; Mavis Cheek A charming and funny tale of parish life by an author whose many fans include Philip Larkin, Alexander McCall Smith and Jilly Cooper. | Naomi Wolf Now in paperback from the internationally bestselling author Naomi Wolf - a stirring portrait of her father and his unconventional wisdom on how to live, love, and see the world... |
Jill Foulston A richly imaginative anthology of the best writing about food from women around the world and throughout history. Includes well-known and surprising names: Elizabeth David, J.K. Rowling, Claudia Roden and... | Nora Ephron The autobiographical novel by Nora Ephron, Oscar-nominated screenwriter (When Harry Met Sally) and successful director (Sleepless in Seattle), is a bittersweet book about love and loss. |
Daphne Du Maurier; Sally Beauman Philip Ashley is orphaned at an early age and raised by his bachelor uncle Ambrose, who falls in love and marries while travelling in Italy and dies there in suspicious... | Marguerite Van Geldermalsen ' The donkey tied to the tent peg had a hard-on which was difficult to ignore. 'Hamar mabsoot,' my new brother-in-law Ibraheem said cautiously and as I realised I recognised... |
Madeleine Masson The remarkable life story of Christine Granville - Churchill's 'favourite spy' and one of the most successful women agents of the Second World War | Muriel Spark; Mark Lawson This extremely clever novel sees life imitating art and art imitating life. |
Asne Seierstad From the author of "Bookseller of Kabul","101 Days" is an account of the Iraq war. | Elizabeth Taylor; Jonathan Keates A finely nuanced exploration of responsibility, snobbery and culture clash. |
Gillian Slovo *The deeply moving memoir of the Slovo family which also encompasses much of the story of the Apartheid years. | Janet Frame; Hilary Mantel 'One of the most impressive accounts of madness to be found in literature ... A masterpiece' Anita Brookner |
Angela Carter Nine darkly inventive tales from one of Britain's most original and imaginative writers. | Francoise Gilot; Carlton Lake The young painter Francoise Gilot met Picasso in a Parisian cafe when he was 62. During the next ten years they were lovers, worked together and had two children, Claude... |
Mary Wortley Montagu; Malcolm Jack;... The critical and biographical introduction tells of Lady Wortley Montagu's travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her lively letters offer insights into... | Waris Dirie Inspirational, dramatic and extraordinary - the autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 5, sold in marriage at 13, who became an American model and is now at the young... |