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Antiquities and Other Stories by Cynthia Ozick
Category: Short Stories | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'A strange and compelling new book from one of America's greatest living authors' Times Literary Supplement 'As cunning and rich as anything Ozick's written' Wall Street Journal 'One of our era's central writers. About a man ensnared by history, Antiquities is at once a warning against the hazards of no ...Show more
Climbers - With an Introduction by Robert Macfarlane by M. John Harrison
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'No one alive can write sentences like he can. He's the missing evolutionary link between William Burroughs and Virginia Woolf' Olivia Laing'Among the most brilliant novelists writing today' Robert Macfarlane'Truly gets to the heart of that strange, indefinable otherness of the wild northern landscape' ...Show more
Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
Translated by Julia Sanches.'A force of nature. A rich and prophetic world of women and low, grey clouds that merge with the sea. Pure poetry' Pilar Quintana'Bold, dazzling, hilarious. Andrea Abreu is a lively meteorite in the landscape of Hispanic Literature' Fernanda Melchor'I am overwhelmed. What a m ...Show more
Eustace and Hilda by L. P. Hartley
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials
'A masterpiece' Anita Brookner'A very beautiful novel' Nick Hornby'Includes some of the most perfect sentences in English' GuardianAt the turn of the twentieth century, two children play on an English beach. Eustace, a gentle, dreamy, boy with a weak heart, relies on his older sister Hilda. As young adu ...Show more
Freight Dogs by Giles Foden
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'Every new novel by Giles Foden is something to celebrate' Paul Theroux'An amazing and profound work, rich in memorable detail' Jay Parini'Foden has cleverly reworked the grand African adventure novel' Aminatta Forna, Guardian'A perceptive, compassionate history of an enormously complex conflict' Irish ...Show more
Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
"A luminous telling of two modern romances, a book that lingers sweetly and hilariously in the memory." --Dallas Morning News Guido and Vincent are childhood best friends--third cousins, really--living in Cambridge and dreaming about their futures. Guido plans to write poetry while Vincent feels con ...Show more
Here Comes the Miracle - Shortlisted for the 2021 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award by Anna Beecher
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021 'Beecher displays an exciting command of her craft, weaving together disparate timeframes and points of view with an assured lightness of touch' Sarah Moss 'I adored this novel' Pandora Sykes 'What a gorgeous book. Lovingly told, wi ...Show more
Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
Category: Biography | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'Whenever I read the words "Peer's Daughter" in a headline, ' Lady Redesdale once sadly remarked, 'I know it's going to be something about one of you children.' The Mitford family is one of the century's most enigmatic, made notorious by Nancy's novels, Diana's marriage to Sir Oswald Mosley, Unity's inf ...Show more
In the Cut by Susanna Moore
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
Living alone in New York, Frannie teaches creative writing to a motley bunch of students, and secretly compiles a dictionary of street slang: virginia, n., vagina; snapper, n., vagina; brasole, n., vagina. One evening at a bar, she stumbles upon a man, his face in shadow, a tattoon on his wrist, a woman ...Show more
Notes from the Henhouse: Collected Essays by Elspeth Barker
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
In Notes from the Henhouse, you will find: A Gothic castle, a draughty Norfolk farmhouse and a malevolent Aga A pet pig, Portia with a penchant for drama, an obsession with geraniums and an addiction to wine (the Bulgarian vintage) George Barker, poet and beloved husband, warbling cowboy songs into his ...Show more
Nothing by Daniel O'Connor
Category: Fiction | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
'A dark and funny exploration of the fears and anxieties embedded in domestic suburban life' Big Issue 'Bringing to mind Flann O'Brien or Charlie Kaufman. You find yourself at the mercy of your craving for the next page. O'Connor's debut novel has knocked the ball out of the park' Buzz 'O'Connor's add ...Show more