As a bold and gifted child, Branwell Bronte's promise seemed boundless to the three adoring sisters over whom his rule was complete. But as an adult, the precocious flame of genius distorted and burned low. With neither the strength nor the resources to counter rejection, unable to sell his paintings or publish his books, Branwell became a spectre in the Bronte story, in pathetic contrast with the astonishing achievements of his sisters.
Daphne du Maurier concentrates all her biographer's skill on the shadowy figure of Branwell Bronte, and no reader could fail to be intensely moved by...

Tells a sequence of stories that aim to reveal the fabric of the past, and how a family has fashioned itself through the clothes that they have worn. The author also tells of her encounters with fashion designers - Karl Lagerfeld and Donatella Versace, amo

If the Spirit Moves You is the story of life after death it chronicles a year in the life of Justine Picardie after the death of her sister, her soul mate, from breast cancer. It tells of the yearning to conjure a voice from the vast silence, of how we fill the space that appears when someone dies, or how the space fills itself, of the bond of sisters that, like an endless conversation, carries on.
Told in a series of diary entries from Good Friday to Easter Sunday a year later, the book is filled with significant characters from the author s life her Jewish academic father, who...