In The Dream, the sixteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, Zola blends mysticism and fairy tale with naturalism as an orphan girl falls in love with a nobleman.
A publishing event ten years in the making-a searing, exquisite new novel by the best-selling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists-the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires.
Phone calls from a woman claiming to be the 'real' Aubrey. Aubrey's just a character Gerry made up in a book, years ago. Can Gerry see past the ever-blurring lines of fact and fiction and figure out who is threatening him, or has his long-overdue moment of reckoning finally arrived?
It is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught after landing from a German submarine.
It is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught after landing from a German submarine.
'Into its 120 pages, Moring folds a war memoir, a family psychodrama and a meditation on time and memory. It is a miracle of compression: everything is significant...one races through it, eager to discover the heart of the mystery.' Guardian
A novel about the brutality of fame and what happens when fandom turns to obsession from the Booker-shortlisted author of The Quickening MazeHenry Banks, a brilliant but narcissistic young actor, is prepared to go to any length for a role.
Set against the racial turbulence of the Civil Rights Era, this book offers the work of fiction to explore the life of Martin Luther King Jr - political visionary, human rights activist, preacher, scholar and martyr.
Presented in a fragmented form that reflects society's disintegration, Dreamerika! fuses fact and dream, resulting in a surreal biography, an alternate history which lays bare the corruption and excesses of capitalism just as the heady idealism of the 1960s has begun to fade.
Becca is a cinema buff, seeing herself as a femme fatale, and Chris is a movie reviewer, writing a book on love in the movies. When Becca rents her flat out to Chris, she soon becomes intrigued by him, setting up chance encounters with him and trailing him. Then Chris starts to trail her.
Retraces author's life and her transformation from a post-office clerk who left school at fourteen to a sophisticated professional writer. Revealing how a formidable imagination can arise from the humblest of beginnings, this book paints a portrait of a working-class woman writer's struggle for creative expression.
*A new roundup of personal essays - surprising, disarming, heartbreakingly funny - from the #1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favorite Humorist.
Alternating between the lives of Koreans struggling through seventy years of turbulent, post-World War Two history in their homeland and the communities of Korean immigrants grappling with assimilation in the United States, this title weaves together intricate tales of family and love, abandonment and loss on both sides of the Pacific.