Jane has had her baby & is living along with him in a country cottage. Her idyllic time there is soon complicated by the arrival of Toby, the love of her life, & her friend Dorothy. The two women start up a shop in the village, & it is their changing fortunes & feelings for the men on whom so much of their lives are staked which form the core of this funny & vivdly-told novel.

The Backward Shadow is a worthy sequel to The L-Shaped Room

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Jane has had her baby & is living along with him in a country cottage. Her idyllic time there is soon complicated by the arrival of Toby, the love of her life, & her friend Dorothy. The two women start up a shop in the village, & it is their changing fortunes & feelings for the men on whom so much of their lives are staked which form the core of this funny & vivdly-told novel.

The Backward Shadow is a worthy sequel to The L-Shaped Room

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One wild night midwife Patty Peel is called to attend a birth on the opposite side of Liverpool. She pedals off into the storm & delivers a baby girl in a filthy slum dwelling, just as the mother dies. The drunk & violent father tells Patty to get rid of it, so she takes the child away, meaning to deliver it to the nearest orphanage.

But Patty had spent her entire childhood in an institution & cannot bear to hand the baby over. However, there are rough waters ahead. Patty has few friends, & fears & despises men, including her next door neighbour, Darky Knight, so how can she hope to bring up the child alone?

She has no idea how the baby will affect the attitude of those around her, nor how her life will change as a result...



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One wild night midwife Patty Peel is called to attend a birth on the opposite side of Liverpool. She pedals off into the storm & delivers a baby girl in a filthy slum dwelling, just as the mother dies. The drunk & violent father tells Patty to get rid of it, so she takes the child away, meaning to deliver it to the nearest orphanage.

But Patty had spent her entire childhood in an institution & cannot bear to hand the baby over. However, there are rough waters ahead. Patty has few friends, & fears & despises men, including her next door neighbour, Darky Knight, so how can she hope to bring up the child alone?

She has no idea how the baby will affect the attitude of those around her, nor how her life will change as a result...



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MY TRUE IDENTITY... SPELLS DANGER!

Everyone thinks Tasha is a big joke because she is OBSESSED with spies. But when

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Living & working in Rumania, Guy & Harriet Pringle are forced to evacuate to Greece before the steady advance of the German army. The Balkan Trilogy is the remarkable portrait of their marriage, a haunting evocation of a vanished way of life & a delightfully ironic comedy of manners in a breaking world. ...

This is a fictional re-creation of the marriage & separation of poets Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes. From the start, poetry was the couple's tryst-placing & battleground. Sylvia read Ted's verse before she met him, confronting the handsome poet with his own words at their first encounter one cold Cambridge night. In intensely vivid prose, Emma Tennant takes us beyond the familiar outlines of the pair's legend, imbuing their story with the heightened symbolism of an epic drama. From the scarlet lipstick & headband Sylvia wore on the night they first met, to the yards of red corduroy curtains left unfinished at her death, Tennant constructs a ballad from the unforgettable images that tap into our very nerve endings. As Sylvia & Ted struggle to create both life & art, their duet becomes a duel
- creating a powerful vortex of sensation & passion that draws everyone into its path, including Sylvia's darkly beautiful rival, Assia Wevill. Through imaginative fiction, The Ballad of Sylvia & Ted evokes the social & literary circles in which Plath & Hughes travelled, even as it animates the three talented yet tortured people whose tragic tale surely deserves its place as one of the twentieth century's most famous literary love stories.
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The Bang-Bang Club was a group of four young photographers, friends & colleagues, Ken Oosterbroek, Kevin Carter, Greg ...

When Annabel Smith is driven to jumping overboard from her father's Elisabethan sailing vessel, she expects to die but is instead washed up on the shores of feudal Japan & into the hands of brutal warlord Nakano. Enchanted by her naked blonde beauty, Nakano takes her to Shimoyama, his fortress home where the Mamma San is to teach Annabel the art of giving pleaser. Shimoyama is a world of political intrigue & Nakano's brother warns Annabel of the dangers that surround her. Will she ever be accepted as a barbarian Geisha, given that her sexual appetites are revenous & go against the rules? ...

When Annabel Smith is driven to jumping overboard from her father's Elisabethan sailing vessel, she expects to die but is instead washed up on the shores of feudal Japan & into the hands of brutal warlord Nakano. Enchanted by her naked blonde beauty, Nakano takes her to Shimoyama, his fortress home where the Mamma San is to teach Annabel the art of giving pleaser. Shimoyama is a world of political intrigue & Nakano's brother warns Annabel of the dangers that surround her. Will she ever be accepted as a barbarian Geisha, given that her sexual appetites are revenous & go against the rules? ...