02,02,22
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble...
25,01,22
Suite Française, an extraordinary novel about village life in France just as it was plunged into chaos with the German invasion of 1940, was a publishing sensation ten years ago; Irène Némirovsky completed the two-volume book, part of a planned larger series, in the...
24,01,22
A story of affecting poetry and romance, ‘Mirror Mirror’ constitutes the world of the Renaissance as a troubled and magical time in which Vatican corruption, Atlantic exploration and conquest, and the secrets husbanded in Byzantine monasteries come to bear...
24,01,22
A glorious classic fantasy combining the magic of Ursula Le Guin’s The Wizard of Earthsea with the epic Mastery of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Now reissued in gorgeous new livery. The kingdom of the Six Duchies is on the brink of civil war when news...
24,01,22
‘As intoxicating as the finest island rum’ Independent From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes a love story about one of history’s most captivating ‘invisible’ women: Rachel, the mother of Impressionist painter Camille...
