Friends and Rivals
For everyone who loves Jilly Cooper, Penny Vincenzi, Tasmina Perry and Louise Bagshawe.
Classic fiction: general and literary
Scandalous
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Friends and Rivals
Old friends can become the worst of enemies…
Perfect escapism for fans of Penny Vincenzi and Jilly Cooper.
Harper Perennial Modern Classics – The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
A timeless classic dealing with the complexity and hardships of relationships, addiction and faith.
The Feast of Love
A superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people. ‘The Feast of Love’ is just that – a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. Shortlisted for the National Book Award.
In A Dark Wood
A magnificently ambitious and enthralling novel that confirms Möring’s place as one of the most significant European novelists now at work.
The Diaries of Jane Somers
As resonant with social and political themes as Lessing’s masterpiece ‘The Golden Notebook’, ‘The Diaries of Jane Somers’ sees the author returns to the realism of her early fiction with the wisdom and experience of maturity.
Postcards
Annie Proulx’s first novel, which received huge acclaim and launched an outstanding literary career.
Old Dogs, New Tricks
The second novel by the author of Puppies are for Life, is another light-hearted comedy of manners. Following a change in her husband’s career, Marjorie Benson suddenly finds that she has to uproot herself in mid-life and start afresh.
The Edge of the Crowd
The Edge of the Crowd is the gripping story of early days of photography and the search for lost love in Victorian London . RUNNER UP OF THE 2002 ENCORE PRIZE.
Ghost MacIndoe
Following in the wake of his highly praised first two books, Jonathan Buckley’s ‘Ghost MacIndoe’ is a bold and ambitious novel that focuses on the life of Alexander MacIndoe, a self-centred man who is characterised only by his physical beauty and a complete lack of will.
The Sun Between Their Feet: Collected African Stories Volume Two
The second volume of Doris Lessing’s ‘Collected African Stories’, and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Martha Quest
The opening book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s ‘Children of Violence’ series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain.
The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1
First in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of Empire of the Sun, Crash, Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.
The Headmaster’s Wager
From internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War.