Mansfield Park (Vintage Classics)

Jane Austen

Fanny Price's rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be properly brought up. However, Fanny's childhood is a lonely one as she is never allowed to forget her place. Her only ally is her cousin Edmund. When her cousins befriend two glamorous new young people who have arrived in th...

The Boys in the Boat

Daniel James Brown

Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 193...

The Accidental

Ali Smith

From the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted, Baileys Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet'Brilliant and engaging, frequently hilarious. . . Smith makes one look at the world afresh' Sunday Telegraph'A beguiling page-turner... To read The Accidental is to...

On Divorce: An Illustrated Guide to the Challenges and Joys of Separation

The School of Life; Harry Borden (By (photographer))

An illustrated guide tothe challenges and joys of separation Few of us are without some relationship to divorce: we may be the children, parents or grandparents of divorcees, the colleagues or friends; this may be what we went through a decade ago or what lies ahead of us for the 2030s or 40s; it might ...