On the veranda of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking. And the witching hour begins… Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes...
Winner of the 2002 Orange Prize for her novel ‘Bel Canto’, Ann Patchett’s stunning first novel is about ‘pilgrimage and healing…A fairytale. A delight’. It is 1968. Rose Clinton arrives at St Elizabeth’s, a Roman Catholic home for unwed...
When first published in 1930, Not Without Laughter established Langston Hughes as not only a brilliant poet and leading light of the Harlem Renaissance but also a gifted novelist. In telling the story of Sandy Rogers, a young African...
This book of dark secrets opens with a blaze. On the morning of her daughter’s wedding, June Reid’s house goes up in flames, destroying her entire family – her present, her past and her future. Fleeing from the carnage,...
When the train pulls into the station in Jenkensville, Arkansas, Patty Bergen senses something exciting is going to happen. German prisoners of war have arrived to make their new home in the prison camp. To the rest of the...
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