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Alice Austen
An unforgettable historical debut set in Second World War Brussels: exploring love, resistance and courage in all their forms
Charlotte Sauvin has always seen the world differently. At home on…
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"An extraordinary tapestry of lives intertwined by fate, fear, and resilience . . . This profoundly moving novel demonstrates the power of storytelling to illuminate the darkest corners of history."…
An unforgettable historical debut set in Second World War Brussels: exploring love, resistance and courage in all their forms - and the magical and myriad ways we are connected to…
Alex Gino
From the award-winning author of George, a phenomenal novel about queerness past, present, and future.
Sam is very in touch with their own queer identity. They're nonbinary, and their best…
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Bonnie Yochelson
Explore Gilded Age New York through the lens of Alice Austen, who captured the social rituals of New York's leisured class and the bustling streets of the modern city. Celebrated…
Sam is nonbinary, and when Sam’s home borough of Staten Island opens up a contest for a new statue, Sam finds the perfect subject: photographer Alice Austen, who lived with…
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Amy S Khoudari
Born in New York City in 1866, amateur photographer Alice Austen relishes life as she lives and works in Staten Island, New York. But when she meets Gertrude Tate, she…
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Alice Mcveigh
Susan is a Jane Austen Prequel (or Pride and Prejudice Variation) brilliantly capturing Austen’s own Lady Susan as a young girl.
As the BookLife review put it for Publishers Weekly…
Harriet is an intriguing and original take on Jane Austen’s immortal Emma, by Publishers Weekly’s 2021 BookLife Prize Quarterfinalist, Alice McVeigh.
Emma, a privileged young heiress, decides to mentor Harriet…
Alice Isakova
A sparkling, witty tale of Georgiana Darcy’s efforts to find love & avoid the snares of fortune-hunters. Georgiana’s story is intertwined with that of Anne de Bourgh, her wealthy but…
Fay Weldon
How to be a reader - how to be a writer. All you need to know.
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Maree Jones,Jane Austen,Fay Weldon
This book presents Jane Austen as a self-conscious artist, a woman keenly aware that literature and aesthetics were to play an important role in the education and development of British…