To fifteen-year-old Anne the woods that lie beyond her house are a temporary refuge from her noisy, chaotic family, until one day she gathers her courage and steps into the woods, never to return. Slowly, she makes a new life for herself, learning to forage and to hunt, to build a house from the bounty of the woods and to listen to the voices of the trees. As she endures her first, terrible winter she develops the strength of character that will carry her through the dangers of her unconventional life and the bitter beauty of falling in love, but as the outside world encroaches on her secret existence Anne faces a terrible tragedy.

Pollard

Beatty, Laura

Vintage

Ann Boleyn-The Wife Who Lost Her Head

Children's Books

Biographies

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Pollard is a tour de force  an astonishing first novel which is tough, rough and beautiful.

Chatto&Windus

Darkling

Two women, in two different centuries, both under siege: the brilliant second novel from the acclaimed author of Pollard.      'Pull yourself together, girl…’.'     Mia Morgan, in the middle of her life, is a woman under siege. By the difficult relationship with her blind and aging father; memories of her late lover, John, thirty years her senior; and a dark family secret that still threatens to surface.      She is also accused of living in the past. Alone in the London flat she once shared with John, her days are spent researching the life of a dead woman. This woman is Lady Brilliana Harley, who during the English Civil War, in the absence of her husband and sons, defended her home Brampton Bryan Castle during a prolonged siege by Royalist troops.      Who was this woman of strength and mettle? As Mia delves into the letters and private prayers of Brilliana’'s life, she seeks to understand a person and a time that, despite being centuries old, holds a mirror to her own age and reflects herself back at her.     Darkling is a bold and revolutionary undertaking: brilliantly weaving original seventeenth-century documents into a modern storyline. Laura Beatty beautifully captures a strong sense of place and Englishness, and shows how the boundary line between the past and present can often be unbearably thin.

Literature & Fiction

Lost Property

Literary

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A wild and brilliant novel about nationhood and borders, about art and ideology, and about the violence running through the branches of our 10,000-year-old family tree.

Lillie Langtry - 'Jersey Lillie' - born, a provincial, in 1853, was catapulted by her beauty into the highest society London had to offer. Surrounded by scandal, luxury and gossip, she became the mistress of the Prince of Wales, the goddess of Bohemia and the protégée of Oscar Wilde. After four years, she disappeared, bankrupt, and pregnant with an illegitimate child.

Lillie Langtry

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Sinclair-Stevenson, Limited

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Pollard

Ann Boleyn-The Wife Who Lost Her Head

Pollard

Darkling

Lost Property

Lost Property

Lillie Langtry