Category: Fiction

Honore de Balzac | Cousin Bette | Cousin Bette (1847) vividly brings to life the rift between the old world and the new and is, among other things, a serious study of the Paris demimon

Leonora Hornblow | The Love-Seekers | The heroine’s hesitation between marriage with a steady and reliable man, and insecure excitement with a hoodlum, is resolved when her affairs are int

Maurice Druon | The Rise Of Simon Lachaume | Great banking family Siegfried Schoudler and the old aristocratic family of de La Monerie, and the hold the wiley opportunist, Simon Lachaume , came t

Rosamond Lehmann | Dusty Answer | Judith Earle grew up privately educated in a large riverbank house in Buckinghamshire. Judith is an only child, with her only playmates being the five

Louis Bromfield | The Rains Came | In a long novel of India there is a brief but important episode involving two old missionary ladies. The elder, an engaging old battleax, muses as she

Négar Djavadi | Disoriental | Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future sh

Nigel Forbes Dennis | Cards Of Identity | At the annual meeting of the Identity Club, a group of psychologists come together. They present ‘case histories’ in support of their theories of iden

Truman Capote | Breakfast At Tiffany’s | In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the liter

Rumer Godden | The Greengage Summer | The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by high walls; Eliot, the charming Englishman who beca

Patricia Highsmith | Carol | At the age of 19, aspiring stage designer Therese Belivet wonders how fate brought her to this soul-sucking job, working at Frankenberg’s department s