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Zoe Heller
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Heller’s stirring novel that chronicles the friendship between two schoolteachers is now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight, starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench.
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Nancy Mitford
Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the lookout for a perfect lover. But finding Mr Right is much harder…
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The women in Willy Muller’s life are trouble. His mother insists he eat tofu. His dopey girlfriend, Penny, wants him to overcome his personal space issues - while Karen, his…
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When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radial lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to re-examine everything she thought she knew about their forty-year marriage. Joel’s…
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A tough, wise, and funny book about a family that has to grow up all at once–and that includes the grown-ups. A sustaining, intelligent novel about how the big questions…
A lonely schoolteacher reveals more than she intends when she records the story of her best friend’s affair with a pupil in this sly, insightful novel. Heller writes with a…
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From the first day that the beguiling Sheba Hart joins the staff of St George’s history teacher Barbara Covett is convinced she has found a kindred spirit. This title explores…
WHAT WAS SHE THINKING? is a story of an English pottery teacher who has an affair with one of her students. It was nominated for the Man Booker Prize in…
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Ostracized after his conviction of manslaughter in England, Willy Muller leaves everything, including his two young daughters, for Los Angeles. He begins a new life, but not before writing a…
Ford Madox Ford
A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion. When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham they appear to be the perfect couple.
Shirley Hazzard
The collected short fiction of the master prose stylist Shirley Hazzard –
