A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists From Brontë to Lessing

Author	Horace Walpole
ISBN	0192834401

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the Second Edition, "to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern." Crammed with invention,...

Author	Elaine Morgan
ISBN	0285627007

The Descent of Woman is a pioneering work, the first to argue for the equal role of women in human evolution. On its first publication in 1972 it sparked an international debate and became a rallying-point for feminism, changing the terminology of anthropologists forever. Starting with her demolition...

Author	Margaret Forster
ISBN	0099496860

Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over... This engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follows the fictional adventures, over a hundred years, of an early 20th-century painting and the women whose lives it touches.

It opens with bold, passionate Gwen, struggling to be an artist,...

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Patrick McGrath

Charlie Weir is a man who tackles other people's demons for a living. He has seen every kind of trauma during his years as a psychiatrist in New York.Yet he hasn't found a way of resolving his own conflicts, particularly the fatal mistake that caused his wife and daughter to leave him condemning him to corrosive...

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Marco Missiroli

«Il malinteso», così Carlo e Margherita chiamano il dubbio che ha incrinato la superficie del loro matrimonio. Carlo è stato visto nel bagno dell'università insieme a una studentessa: «si è sentita male, l'ho soccorsa», racconta al rettore, ai colleghi, alla moglie, e Sofia conferma la...

Author	John Niven
ISBN	0434019569

GOD'S COMING - LOOK BUSY!

God really is coming, and he is going to be pissed. Having left his son in charge, God treated himself to a well-earned break around the height of the Renaissance. A good time to go fishing. He returns in 2011 to find things on earth haven't gone quite to plan...

The...