Twopence To Cross The Mersey is the first volume of Helen Forrester’s autobiography. It describes how she and her family (her bankrupted father, her difficult mother and her six siblings) arrive in depression-ridden, pre-World-War-Two Liverpool, in the hope of...
This book follows Clarissa Dalloway through one day as she goes about preparing a party that same evening. This beautiful day brings back memories of her childhood, and ponders her choice of husband – should she have married Mr...
The true Fleet Street life that Frayn describes is long gone, but this book is tremendously evocative of journalism in the 1960s. Dyson is running small columns but yearns for bigger things. Work is carried out late morning and...
With its gritty Tower Hamlets setting, this sharply observed contemporary novel about the life of an Asian immigrant girl deals cogently with issues of love, cultural difference and the human spirit.
‘In the race to be first in describing the lost generation of the 1980s, Geoff Dyer in THE COLOUR OF MEMORY leads past the winning post. “We’re not lost” one of his hero’s friend’s says, “we’re virtually extinct”. It...
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