Vanessa Tait, great-granddaughter of the Alice who inspired Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, tells the fascinating story of the childhood classic's strange beginnings through the eyes of a naive and deceived governess.
Orphaned at the age of nine, Mikey Cuddihy left the US to board at the experimental Summerhill School. Like Hideous Kinky, this memoir describes coming of age in the strange and dangerous world of the unravelling social experiment of the late 1960s.
From the prize-winning and world-renowned novelist comes a gorgeously rendered, emotionally devastating account of a relationship eroded by secrets, set against the backdrop of American's great national tragedy, 9/11.
Proof that literary fiction and science fiction can be one and the same. An intelligent first novel from the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award, 2013.
A gloriously rich and blackly funny French bestseller about Rose, a 105-year-old chef who has experienced life at its fullest... and at its most deadly.