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Rachel Cusk
A woman invites a famed artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives, in the belief that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and landscape.
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Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2015, this book is all about writing and talking, about self-effacement and self-expression, about the desire to create and the human art of self-portraiture in…
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A paperback edition of The Last Supper in a stunning new look.
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The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions - personal, moral, artistic, practical - as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her…
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A path-breaking novel of art, womanhood and violence, from the author of the Outline trilogy.
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The paperback of the final part of Rachel Cusk’s hugely acclaimed trilogy - after Outline (2014) and Transit (2016).
A Life’s Work is Rachel Cusk’s funny, moving, brutally honest account of her early experiences of motherhood. An education in babies, books, breast-feeding, toddler groups, broken nights, bad advice and…
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Truly one of a kind.‘ Justine Jordan, Guardian 'A novel of deep insight and scarring honesty.’ Martin Chilton, Independent ‘Re-sets the dial yet again.’ Claire Harman, Evening Standard ‘Extraordinary .
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Aftermath chronicles this perilous journey as the author redefines herself as a single woman and creates a new version of family life for her daughters.
Thomas Bradshaw and Tonie Swann are experiencing the classic symptoms of marriage in its middle years: comfortable house, happy-enough daughter and an eerie sense that life might be happening elsewhere…
From Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, comes this startling, exhilarating novel that once again expands the notion of what fiction can be and do.
Midway through his life…
A series of essays from Rachel Cusk - about choices, womanhood and art.
The is a novel from British author Rachel Cusk.
Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse body of work offers a striking portrait of trends in 21st-century literature, and the…
Arlington Park is an ordinary English suburb. Over the course of a single day, the novel moves from one household to another, revealing its characters: Juliet, enraged at the victory…
Agnes Day - sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire - is unwell. Terminally middle-class, incurably romantic and chronically confused by life’s most basic interactions, Agnes discovers disconcerting gaps in her general understanding…
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Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award Agnes Day - sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire - has discovered disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world. Terminally middle-class and incurably…
When eighteen-year-old Michael visits the Hanbury’s remote family home he is captivated by their bohemian lifestyle. The chance to escape once more to his friend’s country house comes as a…
Ralph Loman works in an unsatisfying job, for a free London newspaper, when Francine Snaith, a temporary secretary for a corporate finance firm, unexpectedly crosses his path at a party.
Stella Benson sets off for Hilltop, a tiny Sussex village housing a family that is somewhat larger than life. Why is she so reluctant to talk about her past? The…
Rachel Cusk, Chris Kontos
A new narrative non-fiction essay by Rachel Cusk, with a photographic series by Chris Kontos of Kennedy Magazine.
Francoise Sagan
Tells the story of Cecile, who leads a carefree life with her widowed father and his young mistresses until, one hot summer on the Riviera, he decides to remarry -…
Barbara Trapido
A joyful 40th anniversary edition of a coming-of-age classic
In this rich and subtle novel, Stella Benson answers a classified ad for an au pair and arrives in a tiny Sussex village that’s home to an unusual family.
From award-winning novelist Rachel Cusk, comes an incisive and commercial contemporary family novel.
A memoir set in Italy, from the author of THE COUNTRY LIFE and ARLINGTON PARK, about one woman’s conflict between the intense, solitary pleasures of art and the rigors of…
Living with her two best friends in London, Agnes feels that life and love seem to go on without her. But then she discovers that her roommates and her boyfriend…
Thorndike press large print basic –Title page verso.
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The author’s first collection of essays about motherhood, marriage, feminism, and art both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical…
From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed system of intimate, fractured relationships –
A darkly funny and moving insight into modern relationships, providing a glimpse behind the closed doors of suburbia.
As stay-at-home dad Thomas Bradshaw grows more comfortable with taking care of his eight-year-old daughter and learning how to play the piano, his wife becomes more and more at ease…
Amid the leafy avenues and comfortable houses, the residents of Arlington park live out the dubious accomplishments of civilisation: material prosperity, personal freedom, and moral indifference. Men work, women look…
After clearing out her flat, 29-year-old Stella heads for Hilltop, a tiny village in Suffolk, having taken a job with the Maddens family as carer for their disabled teenage son…
Originally published in 2012 by Faber and Faber Limited, Great Britain; published in the United States in 2012 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. –Title page verso.
Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed novel Outline.
Taking an unsentimental approach to one of the most dramatic changes in a woman’s life, British novelist Cusk ( The Country Life ) dissects the process of new motherhood from…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION A woman arrives in Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course.SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE, THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE…
New paperback edition of the novel from the dazzlingly talented author of the Baileys-shortlisted Outline.
A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision…
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fabric works from the last two decades in the career of legendary artist Louise Bourgeois. I’ve always had a fascination with the…
Euripides
This is a new translation in verse of Medea by a well-regarded poet with an introduction and notes by a scholar of Euripides. The result is a distinguished new edition…
Kingsley Amis
With Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis established himself as the bad boy of twentieth-century British letters. Later he became famous as another kind of bad boy, an inveterate boozer, a red-faced…
