Eeva, orphaned daughter of a failed revolutionary, also battles to find her independence and identity. Destitute when her father dies, she is sent away to a country orphanage, and then employed as servant to a widowed doctor, Thomas Eklund.
Eeva, orphaned daughter of a failed revolutionary, also battles to find her independence and identity. Destitute when her father dies, she is sent awa...
With Your Crooked Heart is bestselling author Helen Dunmore's sixth novel. Louise married Paul, brother to Johnnie . . . Yet she doesn't get one man with this union - she gets two. Born twelve years apart in a one-bedroom flat in Barking, Paul and Johnnie are close: they're good at making money and make taking power look easy. But while Paul deals on contaminated land, Johnnie is adept at dealing in crime. And when Louise's relationship with the brothers is further complicated by the birth of her daughter, Anna, it seems nothing can ever break this triangle. Until Johnnie's self-destructive...
With Your Crooked Heart is bestselling author Helen Dunmore's sixth novel. Louise married Paul, brother to Johnnie . . . Yet she doesn't get one man w...
A gripping and moving portrait of life in post-war Soviet Russia, 'The Betrayal' shows the epic struggle of ordinary people to survive in a time of violence and terror.
A gripping and moving portrait of life in post-war Soviet Russia, 'The Betrayal' shows the epic struggle of ordinary people to survive in a time of vi...
Whilst German tanks surround Leningrad during September 1941, two families struggle to stay alive. As winter grips the city first the furniture is burnt, then the books, but some may not live to see another day.
Whilst German tanks surround Leningrad during September 1941, two families struggle to stay alive. As winter grips the city first the furniture is bur...
Cornwall, 1920, early spring. A young man stands on a headland, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless and without family. Behind him lie the mud, barbed-wire entanglements and terror of the trenches. Behind him is also the most intense relationship of his life.
Cornwall, 1920, early spring. A young man stands on a headland, looking out to sea. He is back from the war, homeless and without family. Behind him l...
Many of the poems in Sean O Brien s new collection take their emotional tenor and imaginative cue from his acclaimed translation of "Dante s Inferno," and occupy a dark, flooded, subterranean world, as dramatically compelling as it is disquieting. Circumstances have compelled O Brien to return repeatedly to the elegiac form, and "The Drowned Book" contains a number of powerfully moving poems written in memory of fellow poets and artists. "The Drowned Book" again shows O Brien as master of the authoritative line, and underscores his pre-eminence among contemporary English poets."
Many of the poems in Sean O Brien s new collection take their emotional tenor and imaginative cue from his acclaimed translation of "Dante s Inferno,"...
