Teh Performance is a tightly woven examination of women’s inner lives that is enthralling, profound and deeply human.

A portrayal of a picturesque rural society, tinged with gentle humour and irony, it is Hardy’s most bright, confident and optimistic novel.

What would it look like to be a king, and what kind of life would it bring?

As a child quietly contemplates the answer to this question, they slip off…

Whitbread Award winner Claire Tomalin's seminal biography of the enigmatic novelist and poet Thomas Hardy. Today Thomas Hardy is best known for creating the great Wessex landscape as the backdrop…

A playful and delicious cookbook from the host of ABC’s Food for Thought with Claire Thomas and creator of the much loved food blog The Kitchy Kitchen.Every cook needs an…

Claire Thomas inadvertently gets tangled up in a supernatural murder investigation when her estranged father is murdered in Alaska. Her world is turned inside out when she discovers more than…

In this illuminating study, Claire Preston examines Thomas Browne’s work in the context of the development of scientific disciplines and practices in the seventeenth century. In particular, she charts the…

Elizabeth has finally come full circle, returning to the mountain homeland of her youth, a feat that she had felt impossible. She has become a new person, full of happiness…