Acerbic, brutal and mordantly funny: Ivy ComptonBurnett's most unsparing dissection of the patriarchal family, finally back in print.

An exhilarating and heart-rending novel about family, and all the ways we try - and fail - to escape them.

An epic, heart-breaking novel opening on the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, about the legacy of migration, with a tangled family mystery at its heart.

A jagged, propulsive story of guilt and youth spinning off its axis in the wake of a drowning.

The electrically witty story of a headmistress struggling to retain an iron grip on the hidden plots and allegiances in her girls' school, reissued for the first time in decades.