Latecomers

6 best books like Latecomers (Anita Brookner): Early Work, Frankissstein: A Love Story, One Fine Day, A Long Way from Verona, Autumn Journal, The Butterfly Summer

AuthorAndrew Martin
ISBN0374146128
A wry, supersmart, seriocomic first novel from a prodigious talent—a Sentimental Education for our time

For young writers of a certain temperament—if they haven’t had such notions beaten out of them by MFA programs and the Internet—the delusion persists that great writing must...
Frankissstein: A Love Story
AuthorJeanette Winterson
ISBN1473563259
From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire

In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated...
AuthorMollie Panter-Downes
It's a summer's day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rustling coils of barbed wire are a reminder that something, some quality of life, has evaporated. Together again after years of separation, Laura and Stephen Marshall and their daughter Victoria...
AuthorJane Gardam
ISBN1609451414
‘I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at the age of nine'

Jessica Vye's 'violent experience' colours her schooldays and her reaction to the world around her- a confining world of Order Marks, wartime restrictions, viyella dresses,...
AuthorLouis MacNeice
ISBN0571197450


“September has come, it is hers
Whose vitality leaps in the autumn,
Whose nature prefers
Trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace.
So I give her this month and the next
Though the whole of my year should be hers who has rendered already
So many of its days intolerable...
The Butterfly Summer
AuthorHarriet Evans
ISBN1472221346
What magic is this?

You follow the hidden creek towards a long-forgotten house.

They call it Keepsake, a place full of wonder ... and danger. Locked inside the crumbling elegance of its walls lies the story of the Butterfly Summer, a story you've been waiting all your life to hear.

This...
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