"HAUNTING."--The New York Times Book ReviewJane Smiley, the Pultizer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, gives us a magnificent novel of fourteenth-century Greenland. Rich with fascinating detail about the day-to-day joys and innumerable hardships of remarkable people, The Greenlanders is also the compelling story of one family--proud landowner Asgeir Gunnarsson; his daughter Margret, whose willful independence leads her into passionate adultery and exile; and his son Gunnar, whose quest for knowledge is at the compelling center of this unforgettable book. Echoing the simple power of the old Norse sagas, here is a novel that brings a remote civilization to life and shows how it was very like our own."TOTALLY COMPELLING . . . FASCINATING . . . In the manner of the big books of the nineteenth century, in which complex family and community matters unravel--Dickens, Dumas, Tolstoy--The Greenlanders sweeps the reader along. . . . Jane Smiley is a true storyteller."--The Washington Post"A POWERFUL, MOVING STUDY OF HUMAN FRAILTY AND THE EPHEMERAL NATURE OF COURAGE AND LOVE."--USA Today"WONDERFUL . . . A HISTORICAL NOVEL WITH THE NEARNESS OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION."--The New Republic"[AN] EPIC MASTERPIECE . . . SPELLBINDING."--Newsday

The Greenlanders

Literature & Fiction

jane-smiley

Contemporary

Fontana/Collins

Genre Fiction

Flamingo

From the author of The Greenlanders, a novel which transposes the King Lear story of the present day when a wealthy Iowa farmer decides to divide his land between his three daughters. When his youngest daughter expresses misgivings, he cuts her out - thus setting a tragedy in motion.

A Thousand Acres

The All-true Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

Alfred.A. Knopf

The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

A thousand Acres

HarperCollins, Publishers

<p>1st Harper edition trade paperback fine In stock shipped from our UK warehouse</p>

Harper-perennial

The Pulitzer Prize winning author's uncommon third book, a literate mystery novel.

Duplicate Keys

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

JONATHAN CAPE.

<p>From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of A Thousand a mystery set in 1850s Gold Rush California, as two young prostitutes—best friends Eliza and Jean—follow a trail of missing girls.Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. The madam, Mrs. Parks, is kind, the men are (relatively) well behaved, and Eliza has attained what few women financial security. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she can’t resist confronting. Side by side with her friend Jean, and inspired by her reading, especially by Edgar Allan Poe’s detective Dupin, Eliza pieces together an array of clues to try to catch the killer, all the while juggling clients who begin to seem more and more suspicious.Eliza and Jean are determined not just to survive, but to find their way in a lawless town on the fringes of the Wild West—a bewitching combination of beauty and danger—as what will become the Civil War looms on the horizon. As Mrs. Parks says, “Everyone knows that this is a dangerous business, but between you and me, being a woman is a dangerous business, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise …”</p>

A Dangerous Business

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