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BIOGRAPHY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY / WOMEN'S STUDIES / DRAMA, THEATRE ARTS

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Mark Hichens examines these women - and one husband, Denis Thatcher - in the light of their personalities and achievements as well as the roles they have indirectly played in British history in this timely volume.

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This is the first paperback edition of a classic Virginia Woolf study, essential to the understanding of perhaps the greatest of Britain's female writers. Recollections, anecdotes and first-hand impressions including pieces from some of the leading lights of the Bloomsbury Group are all included in a perceptive and profound volume.

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Includes an author's account of an earlier visit to the Falklands. This book explores the links between Patagonia and its neighbouring islands. Having met people who were caught up on both sides in the Falklands War, the author offers another perspective of the conflict.

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A literary detective on the author's autobiographical roots. This book deals with childhood shame, abandonment, rebellion, first love and religious experiment.

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A sequel to UNREAL CITY, in which the expatriate Charles Harbord presents a sophisticated picture of social life in Cairo during the last months before the Suez crisis and the expulsion of foreigners.

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A biography of Renee-Pelagie de Montreuil, Marquise de Sade, revealing how for decades she endured not only the machinations of her debauched husband but also those of her domineering mother, who was herself attracted to the Marquis.

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Following THE WALL, a historical novel set in Germany on the eve of the Reformation, and telling the story of the Graf ruling the region, whose world is turned upside down when the area is disturbed by the Children's Revolt.

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An ambitious and powerful examination of fate and faith, this is a novel based on historical fact that reveals how people react to events and how these events impact on their personalities and beliefs - or lack of them.

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Santiago is a male figure who appears in the narrator's consciousness after her failed attempt at suicide at the age of fouteen. He arrives to supplant Mina, a childlike creature of the mind who has shepherded the narrator through life from birth until driven away by Santiago. After ten years of marriage Santiago turns against her husband...

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Peter Vansittart has been acclaimed as Englands greatest living historical novelist. Published to coincide with Vansittarts 85th birthday, 'Secret Protocols' begins with the Hitler Stalin pact of 1939 which triggers an extraordinary odyssey for Erich, the son of a Baltic Baron and an English mother.

All ten stories here showcase Wilkie Collins's towering contribution to the development of the mystery genre.

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A "song man" blinds his daughter to keep her from following her half-brother, who ran away due to the art's rigorous training. The girl forgives her father before his death, and through this act, she deepens her insight into the nature of human existence, and, as her father had insisted would happen, elevates the art of her p'ansori singing.

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This novel relates the events that overtake a girl and her young brother when they are left unaccompanied for the night on their parents' farm. They have to cope alone when a group of strangers call at the house after their car breaks down.

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Representing the best of his short fiction between 1959 and 1977, these share many of the themes that are familiar to Endo's novels: the struggle to maintain Christian faith in a Japanese context, the spiritual doubt that lies beneath the surface of everyday life.