Julie Burchill | Sweet | ”Some people tread water all their lives. Not me – I’m gonna make a big splash.” Maria Sweet, aka Sugar, is back. Her husband’s done a runner taking
Julie Glamuzina; Alison J. Laurie | Parker & Hulme | The movie Heavenly Creatures was based on New Zealand’s notorious 1954 murder case in which two teenage girls, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, killed
Tom Robbins | Even Cowgirls Get the Blues | Starring Sissy Hanshaw–flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match–hitchhiking her way into your heart
May Sarton | Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing | Hilary Stevens is an aging writer asked to recount her poetic inspirations, and we are taken along on this journey of rediscovery. Both subtle and int
Henri Crouzat | Island at the End of the World | Shipwrecked when their hospital ship is torpedoed, a young officer of the French Air Force and three English nurses find themselves marooned on a tiny
Helen Cross | My Summer of Love | It’s 1984 and one of the hottest summers Yorkshire’s seen. It’s the kind of woozy heat you lose your mind in. Mona is 15 years old. She’s a drinker, a
Violette Leduc | Thérèse and Isabelle | Therese is sent to an all-girl school when her mother marries a man who dislikes children. She meets Isabelle (Anna Gael) and the two become fast frie
Shirley Jackson | The Haunting Of Hill House | Hill House is an eighty-year-old mansion in a location that is never specified, built by long-deceased Hugh Crain. The story concerns four main charac
