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Victoria Glendinning
In this first-ever biography of Leonard Woolf, husband to Virginia Woolf and a founding member of Bloomsbury, the creative home of early 20th-century Britain’s foremost literary lights and thinkers, Glendinning…
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‘Historical fiction at its finest.’ @MargaretAtwood The richly atmospheric story of a young woman’s struggle to define herself in a world of uncertainty, intrigue and danger in a time of…
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Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Chronicles follow the intrigues of ambition and love in the cathedral town of Barchester. In this novel Trollope…
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An exciting reissue of GLENDINNING’S most critically acclaimed novel
In this richly detailed biography, Victoria Glendinning brings alive the great Anglo-Irish novelist whose literary achievements were equaled only by her unbounded gift for living. Taking us from Elizabeth Bowen’s…
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, this is the definitive portrait of a spontaneous, gallant, yet tragically insecure woman. ‘The excellence of…
The atmospheric novel set during the Tudor era ofa young woman’s struggle to define herself in a world of uncertainty, intrigue,and danger in a period of great upheaval
From Victoria Glendinning, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and (twice) the Whitbread Prize for Biography. Who was John Lewis? What story lies behind the…
The Whitbread Prize-winning biography of Vita Sackville-West.
Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist…
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The authoritative biography of the ‘Father of Singapore’.
From Victoria Glendinning, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and (twice) the Whitbread Prize for Biography.
‘It’s Succession in tailcoats and spats … This is…
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Victoria Glendinning provides a woman’s view of Anthony Trollope, placing emphasis on family, particularly on his relationship with his mother. But it is Anthony as a husband and lover that…
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The contributors to this work explore the mother and son relationship. Seven mothers and seven sons tread on emotional minefields, some gingerly, some with great anger. The collection includes contributions…
Leonard Woolf
A new edition of Leonard Woolf’s satirical second novel, which offers an intriguing group portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf and other members of the Bloomsbury Group
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Rebecca West
With a new introduction by Victoria Glendinning, this is Rebecca West’s most popular work of fiction
As the 1920s gives way to the Depression, Rose and Mary find themselves successful pianists. But their happiness is diminished by their cousin’s marriage to a man they perceive as…
This is a masterful novel about a shell-shocked, amnesiac soldier returning from WWI to the three women who love him.
Elizabeth Bowen
Read Elizabeth Bowen’s accessible feminist take on the Irish aristocracy WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY VICTORIA GLENDINNING The Irish troubles rage, but up at the ‘Big House’, tennis parties, dances and…
George Sand
With his wife dead and three young children to look after, Germaine decides that the time has come to marry again. He embarks on a journey to meet a rich…
Alex Garland,W.F. Deedes,Tony Hawks,Irvine Welsh,Victoria Glendinning
A collection of short stories by some of Britain’s best known writing talent. Tony Hawks was asked to write a song with a Sudanese tribesman while Alex Garland was flown…
