03/01/2012
This is an absorbing and gripping re-imagining of Austen’s classic. James returns the reader to Pemberley, six years after the marriage of Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy, when suddenly their harmonious lives are disrupted by the arrival of Lydia, Elizabeth’s errant sister, following the murder of her husband. This novel, captures all the language, characterisation and [...]
03/01/2012
This new translation of a fabulous classic proves just how modern and timeless the story of Madame Bovary is. Flaubert’s complex and compelling tale of a thoroughly modern woman, whose life spirals out of control through deep unhappiness, destructive desire and the pursuit of material pleasure, is as poignant today as when it was first [...]
03/01/2012
This is a quirky, funny, often moving account of the lives of the great hotels of London during the Second World War and the people who inhabited them. While the bombs hit London an eclectic mix of staff, guests and entertainers lived, worked and survived, maintaining all the while a curiously British trait of humour, eccentricity [...]