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SARAH WATERS

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Virago Press

"Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing...bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night." ―The New YorkerWith the savage humor of Evelyn Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe, Patricia Highsmith brought a distinct twentieth-century acuteness to her prolific body of fiction. In her more than twenty novels, psychopaths lie in wait amid the milieu of the mundane, in the neighbor clipping the hedges or the spouse asleep next to you at night. Now, Norton continues the revival of this noir genius with another of her lost masterpieces: a later work from 1983, People Who Knock on the Door, is a tale about blind faith and the slippery notion of justice that lies beneath the peculiarly American veneer of righteousness. This novel, out of print for years, again attests to Highsmith's reputation as "the poet of apprehension" (Graham Greene).

People Who Knock on the Door

Patricia, Highsmith

Deep Water

An exciting and provocative look at the women who wrote the novels that changed the literary world - Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - by the renowned biographer of Emily Dickinson 
Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their famous novels.\nWe have long known their individual greatness but in linking their creativity to their lives as outsiders, this group biography throws new light on the genius they share. 'Outsider', 'outlaw', 'outcast': a woman's reputation was her security and each of these five lost it. As writers, they made these identities their own, taking advantage of their separation from the dominant order to write their novels.\nAll five were motherless. With no female model at hand, they learnt from books; and if lucky, from an enlightened man; and crucially each had to imagine what a woman could be in order to invent a voice of their own. They understood female desire: the passion and sexual bravery in their own lives infused their fictions. 
What they have in common also is the way they inform one another, and us, across the generations. Even today we do more than read them; we listen and live with them.\nLyndall Gordon's biographies have always shown the indelible connection between life and art: an intuitive, exciting and revealing approach that has been highly praised and much read and enjoyed. She names each of these five as prodigy, visionary, outlaw, orator and explorer and shows how they came, they saw and left us changed.

Outsiders

Biographies & Memoirs

Lyndall Gordon

Arts & Literature

Between The Stops

SANDI TOKSVIG

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Early One Morning

Virginia Baily

Can We All Be Feminists?: Seventeen writers on intersectionality, identity and finding the right way forward for feminism

You're On An Airplane

Posey, Parker

A gorgeous set of three books from the beloved Anne of Green Gables childhood series. The three books are paperback-bound and are housed in a lovely case. Wonderful as a gift! Newly-released cover art on the reissue of these stories. Set includes Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, and Anne of the Island.

Anne of Green Gables Collection - 3 Books

L.M.Montgomery

Alias Grace

Margaret, Atwood

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