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Books and Conversation: The Bell Jar
This month's featured reading group - Riverside Reads (aka Bookaholics Anonymous) - reviewed Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. More
Miriam Toews on The Flying Troutmans: An Interview
Miriam Toews is the author of three novels, including her most recent, The Flying Troutmans, which is out now in paperback. Here she discusses any links there may be between her books, her Mennonite background and the extent to which it might have influenced her, parenting, and what's likely to come next. More
My Name is Red: Orhan Pamuk
A modern classic. Orhan Pamuk's historical whodunnit, set in the court of a 16th-century Sultan. Complete and unabridged. More
Amongst Women: John McGahern
Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out ... More
The Barracks: John McGahern
The first novel by John McGahern, originally published in 1963. Elizabeth Regan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The ... More
Something to Tell You: Hanif Kureishi
Something to Tell You takes us inside the life and mind of Jamal, a fifty-something psychoanalyst, who finds people from his student days in the 1970s returning to haunt him in unsettling ways. Here's the author explaining more. More
Things to Make and Mend: Ruth Thomas
This long-awaited first novel from one of Scotland's most admired short story writers tells the story of Sally Tuttle and Rowena Cresswell, school friends whose lives were changed at the ... More
Imposture: Benjamin Markovits
A captivating gothic romance by one of the most acclaimed young American writers of our times.Dismissed from his role as Lord Byron's travelling physician, Dr John Polidori has fallen on ... More
Arlington Park: Rachel Cusk
Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb, is a place devoted to the profitable ordinariness of life. Amidst its leafy avenues and comfortable houses, its residents live out the dubious accomplishments ... More
The Observations: Jane Harris
Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her past, Bessy Buckley takes a job working as a maid in a big country house. But when Arabella, her beautiful mistress, asks ... More
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