In 1842, two sisters drunkenly debate their future, their family chocolate business has failed and so they decide to open a seance parlour. The locals are shocked but soon their shop is crammed with people wanting to contact the...
‘Perfectly controlled, superbly written. Waterland is original, compelling and narration of the highest order’ Guardian In the years since its first publication, in 1983, Waterland has established itself as one of the classics of twentieth-century British literature: a visionary...
A book and film convention in Nottingham. An American writer of a lesbian series is attacked by feminists and receives threats: prostitutes are under attack….
1943. The sleepy Suffolk village of Bedenham is jerked into the twentieth century and the harsh realities of war by the arrival on its doorstep of an American bomber base and its three thousand inhabitants. For Billy Street, fourteen,...
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