Remarkable for its evocation of the Edwardian age, West’s 1957 novel is a vital, witty, and devastating family portrait and a brilliant re-imagining of her own volatile childhood.

In 1916, when Rebecca West was not yet twenty-five years old, George Bernard Shaw wrote: ‘Rebecca can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.’…

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Seventeen-year-old Ellan, a young woman deeply concerned with getting women the right to vote – remember, this novel is set in 1918 – has a passion for life and also…

Suppressed by the author during her lifetime, this is Rebecca West’s fictionalized account of her obsessive love for Lord Beaverbrook and the disintegration of her relationship with H.G.Wells. It is…

Written between 1946 and 1954, these accounts of four controversial trials explore the nature of crime and punishment, innocence and guilt, retribution and forgiveness. Astonishing. -Francine Prose.

I've watched from the sidelines as my friends found themselves bound to the same agathos. I've stood aside and wondered if she was mine. I've watched, I've waited, I've hurt…

A soldier returns from the front to the women who love him. Shell-shocked, he can only remember Margaret, his first love, of 15 years before. His cousin he remembers as…