Deliciously, blackly funny and full of obstinate optimism, Quartet in Autumn shows Barbara Pym's sensitive artistry at its most sparkling. Its world is both extraordinary and familiar, revealing the eccentricities of everyday life.
Romance shares the pages with death in this engaging novel that is the culmination of Barbara Pym's acclaimed writing career.
And one of the newest arrivals, the reverend Edgar Donne, has everyone talking. A warm, affectionate depiction of a postwar English village, Some Tame Gazelle perfectly captures the quotidian details that make up everyday life.
Three lonely people come together in this poignant, witty novel of star-crossed romance from the New York Times–bestselling author of Jane and Prudence.
In this revolutionary book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Amir Levine and Rachel Heller scientifically explain why why some people seem to navigate relationships effortlessly, while others struggle.
Between the amorous antique dealer Humphrey and his good-looking nephew James glides the magnificent Leonora, delicate as porcelain, cool as ice. Can she keep James in her thrall? Or will...
'One of the most endearingly amusing English novels of the twentieth century' Alexander McCall Smith
With a lively cast of characters and a witty look at the insular world of academia, this novel from the much-loved author of Excellent Women and other modern classics is filled with poignant, playful observations about the traits that ...
... in Wellington and Shrewsbury, when they met – but by a strange coincidence there is an Oswestry connection further back in the Crampton family: in 1857 George Ribton Crampton, barristeratlaw of Dublin, married Helen Roden Croxon, ...
This is a book that is worth a twenty-year wait.