What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is Carver's most famous collection of short stories. This restored version of the stories reveals what was previously unsaid, filling in the narrative silences that have both inspired and mystified readers for so long. It offers insight into the aesthetic of a literary great and, the questions it raises.
Helps you meet the Bell family who live in the vicarage at St Marks. This book lets you follow their eventful lives from tense auditions to birthday treats; and from troubled times to hilarious escapades.
It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love.
Enticed by advertisements for a luxury retirement home in India, a group of strangers leave England to begin a new life. On arrival, however, they discover the palace is a shell of its former self, the staff are more than a little eccentric and the days of the Raj appear to be long gone.
The first novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his parentsIn 1909, Ingmar Bergman's mother and father first meet.
Heavy rain falls on Lafferton. As the rain water slowly drains away, a shallow grave - and a skeleton - are revealed. It doesn't take long to identify the remains as those of missing teenager, Harriet Lowther, who was last seen sixteen years ago.