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Rosalind Brackenbury
When the bones of a woman are dug up on a beach in Dorset whose are they? How do they connect with Nessa Halloran's present life as memories of her…
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Maria Jameson is having an affair - a passionate, life changing affair. She asks: Is it possible to love two men at once? Must this new romance mean an end…
Poetry. Of Rosalind Brackenbury’s last collection, Jane Hirshfield said, With deft mastery, Rosalind Brackenbury distills the facts and feel of a deeply lived-through and profoundly attended-to existence, and Harvey Shapiro…
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Poetry. I consider this collection to be her best. –Harry Mathews. Her title poem … is simply wondrous. –Jane Hirshfield.
Here is the mesmerizing story a boy’s search for his mother, a woman’s desire to explore the world, and a man’s longing for love. It begins and ends in Tasmania…
What do you do when you’ve lost the love of your life?
Seb Fowler has arrived in Paris to research his literary idol, Henri Fournier. It begins with an interview…
If Hannah doesn’t return, what will happen to the lives of those around her?
After the death of her art dealer father, forty-year-old Gaby Greenwood’s unmoored grief drives her to Paris alone, leaving her American husband behind. Where better for an existential crisis than…
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Noted British author Brackenbury, a prize-winning short-story writer, poet, and well-reviewed novelist, steps back from her own writing to reveal her creative process. Her advice is rendered in a fluid…
Poetry. These rich, fluent poems tell the story of a writer’s pilgrimage. They are filled with the colors and vibrancy of her world, a world that includes Key West, England…
Anna Parrish and Ruby Smith have been intimate friends from childhood. Anna is blonde, coolly interrogative, more traditionally beautiful and, in subtle senses, dominant. Ruby is dark-haired, more impulsive, less…
In 1962, Jo Catterall, a young English woman, seeking freedom, visits Israel. On the boat out she meets Gilbert, a slightly older kibbutznik who has spent some unedifying time in…
Lucy and Philip are a progressive young couple in a period of extraordinary change - the late 1960s. Considerations of marriage and the purchase of their first house put them…
