The King of a Rainy Country | Brigid Brophy | When 19-year-old Susan takes a job with Finkelheim, the shady bookseller across the street from her flat in London?s grotty, bohemian Fitzrovia, she h
A Jest of God (Phoenix Fiction) | Margaret Laurence | A thirty-four-year-old school teacher living with her mother, Rachel Cameron feels trapped in an environment of small-town deceit and pettiness?her ow
Regiment of Women | Clemence Dane | Obsessive friendships lead to tragedy in this early-twentieth-century novel about a charismatic schoolmistress, a nave new teacher, and an impression
A Jest of God | Margaret Laurence; Margaret Eleanor Atwood | In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms wi
A Jest of God | Margaret Laurence | In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms wi
A Jest of God | Margaret Laurence | Republished as ‘Rachel, Rachel’. A shy, unmarried schoolteacher named Rachel Cameron experiences a summer of self-discovery and emotional awakening in
A Jest Of God | Margaret Laurence | In A Jest of God , the second of Margaret Laurence’s Manawaka novels, 34-year-old Rachel Cameron tries as hard as she can to live her life in the shad
Fernhurst, Q.E.D., and other early writings | Stein Gertrude | ‘A superb initiation into the mysteries of Miss Stein.’ Christian Science MonitorGertrude Stein began the creative work that was to earn her the repu
The Well of Loneliness | Radclyffe Hall | First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall’s own life, it was banned outrig
Q. E. D. | Gertrude Stein | ‘Things as They Are’ isÿa novella by Gertrude Stein, written in 1903 while she was at university, but published posthumously by Alice Toklas.ÿIt explo