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The celebrated biography of Sir Gerald du Maurier captures the spirit and charm of the charismatic actor-manager of his time.

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Du Maurier uncovers the truth of Anthony Bacon, Francis and their friends which have long puzzled Elizabethan historians.

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An entertaining and inspiring memoir of Bawden's life revealed through simple vignettes.

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Meet Ginny Babcock, a woman of the 1960s, flower child, cheerleader, dutiful daughter and wayward wife. A novel of the 1960s woman, yearning for security, desperate for adventure.

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As a teenage Catholic virgin, Joan Wyndham spent her days trying to remain pure and unsullied and her nights trying to stay alive. Huddled in the air-raid shelter, she wrote secretly and obsessively about the strange yet exhilarating times she was living through, sure that this was ' the happiest time of my life'.

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Omnibus edition of two works of fiction by one of Russia's most famous feminists - the only female in Lenin's government

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In this haunting novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of My ntonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop performs a series of crystalline variations on the themes that preoccupy her greatest fiction.

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Born in 1865, Mary Olivier is the youngest of four. Mamma, the archetype of all women who rule through weakness and suffering, dominates her Victorian household, idolizing her sons, rejecting the independent love of her only daughter. Mary, in response, both adores and hates her mother.

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A postwar love story from the author of The Charioteer.

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One woman's story of guilt and family secrets. Like America in the mid-nineteenth century, Emma Garnet Tate Lowell is at war with herself. Born to privilege on a grand plantation she grows up more and more aware that her family's prosperity is inextricably linked to the institution of slavery.

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A volume of Rebecca West's short fiction. Including the novella The Only Poet , found amongst her papers after her death, this selection comprises unpublished work and published stories gathered from British and American journals and periodicals.

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* A powerful novel about cruelty in a world preparing for war, and a profound exploration of ambition, militarism, love, loyalty and death

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The first of a four-volume work by Dorothy Richardson, this novel records the life of Miriam Henderson. Through her experience - personal, spiritual, intellectual - the author explores what it means to be a woman.

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* An elegiac novel of giving it all up for love -- and living to regret it.
* 'I like Elisabeth Russell Taylor. She gets better and better' A.S. Byatt.

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Published to coincide with a biography of Violet Trefusis, this romantic comedy set in the Twenties shows young aristocrat, Elizabeth Caracole being finished in Florence with the family of a Papal count - the dentist

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Mary Renault's powerful and tender first novel was written in the thirties and was, in many ways, far ahead of its time.

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A selection of Winifred Holtby's short stories.

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In this award-winning novel, Mary Renault explores the relationship between a doctor and her young lover.

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'This is Alice Hoffman at her best, turning our eyes toward the ordinary surface of things to see the power that shimmers underneath' - Amy Tan

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In these tales of cunning, fancy and shifting alliances, commonplace superstitions mingle effortlessly with submerged desire.