Hervey Allen | Anthony Adverse in Africa | A long, rambling work set in Europe, Africa, and the Americas during the Napoleonic era, Anthony Adverse relates the many adventures of the eponymous
Sarah Waters | Fingersmith | ‘We were all more or less thieves at Lant Street. But we were that kind of thief that rather eased the dodgy deed along, than did it . . . We could pa
Doris Grumbach | The Ladies | ‘A tale told in delicate brushstrokes of a relationship in which two hearts came almost literally to beat as one.’ Newsday In the late 18th century, E
Jeanette Winterson | The Daylight Gate | “The North is the dark place. It is not safe to be buried on the north side of the church and the North Door is the way of the dead. The North of Engl
Isabel Miller | A Place For Us | It was popular enough to be reissued in hard cover by a mainstream publishing house in 1972 as Patience And Sarah. It is a very sweet little tale base
Sarah Waters | The Paying Guests | It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a gente
Helen MacPherson | And Those Who Trespass Against Us | Sister Katherine Flynn is an Irish nun sent to work in the remote Australian countryside of New South Wales. She is a prideful woman who joined her or
