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Summer 1936 and the world is on the cusp of change, but there's little sign of this in rural Sussex. When Kitty Allen answers an advert for "a good plain cook', despite hardly knowing how to boil an egg, she has no idea what she's in for. Her employers are rich bohemians who see themselves as champions of "the people" - but know nothing about how the people actually live. Out of her depth and surrounded by madness, it becomes clear that life i...

Marion ist hingerissen von Tom, dem großen Bruder ihrer besten Freundin, einem unverschämt gutaussehenden jungen Mann mit blonden Locken und blauen Augen. Gleich bei der ersten Begegnung, da sind sie noch Teenager. Für sie ist er der Mann ihres Lebens, und so übersieht sie alle Zeichen, jeden Hinweis, dass Tom sich nicht für sie interessiert. Nicht für sie als Frau. Trotzdem hofft sie auf einen Heiratsantrag, und als er ihn endlich macht, ist ...

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**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING HARRY STYLES**This love is all-consuming It is in 1950s' Brighton that Marion first catches sight of the handsome and enigmatic Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten - determined her love will be enough for them both. A few years later in Brighton Museum Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted with Tom and opens his eyes to a glamorous, sophisticated new world. Tom is their polic...

A melodious paean to the natural history and symbolic meaning of the most prized, poetized, and mythologized of songbirds. The nightingale has a unique place in cultural history: the most prized of songbirds, it has inspired more poems than any other creature, and it is also the most mythologized of birds. Nightingale juxtaposes the bird of poetry, music, myth, and lore with the living bird of wood and scrubland, unpicking the entangled relati...

Soon to be a motion picture starring Harry Styles and Emma Corrin, an exquisitely told, tragic tale of thwarted love.It is in 1950's Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim, gently guiding her through the water in the shadow of the city's famous pier and Marion is smitten-determined her love alone will be enough for them both. A few years later near the Brighton Museum, Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted, an...

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This book explores Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets and clarifies its 'place' - understood in multiple ways - in literary history. It argues that Smith's work engages more deeply with tradition than has hitherto been realised and revises our understanding not only of Smith's career but also of the sonnet in eighteenth-century England.

The lives of Gladys Presley and her son Elvis, across the boy's poor childhood, growing interest in the blues, ascent to fame and troubled years after are approached in the new novel from the author of "My Policeman", intoxicatingly conveying the mid-century American South.

Bethan Roberts was born in Oxford and grew up in nearby Abingdon. Her first novel The Pools won a Jerwood/Arvon Young Writers' Award. Her second novel The Good Plain Cook, published in 2008, was serialized on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime and was chosen as one of Time Out's books of the year. Her third novel, My Policeman, was picked as the 'City Reads' book for Brighton. Her most recent novel is Mother Island, winner of a Jerwood/Fiction Unco...

An astonishingly assured debut from British writer Bethan Roberts.

Bethan Roberts was born in Oxford and grew up in nearby Abingdon. Her first novel The Pools was published in 2007 and won a Jerwood/Arvon Young Writers' Award. Her second novel The Good Plain Cook, published in 2008, was serialized on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime and was chosen as one of Time Out's books of the year. She also writes short stories (in 2006 she was awarded the Olive Cook short story prize by the Society of Authors) and has had ...

A tense and disturbing novel about love, loss and what it means to be a mother, as a lonely young nanny abducts the young boy she looks after, taking him to Anglesey. Builds on the success of "My Policeman", this will appeal to fans of Maggie O'Farrell, Rose Tremain and Ian McEwan.