House in Paris (Bowen Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

House in Paris (Bowen Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Henrietta finds that her visit coincides with that of Leopold, an intense child who has come to Paris to be introduced to the mother he has never known. In the course of a single day, the mystery surrounding Leopold, his parents, Henrietta's agitated hostess and the dying matriarch in bed upstairs,

Time in Rome (Bowen Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Elizabeth Bowen's account of a time spent in Rome is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city - its history, its architecture and, above all, its

In Strangers' Houses (Mundy Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Cosy crime for the post-Brexit

Last September (Bowen Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Read Elizabeth Bowen's accessible feminist take on the Irish aristocracyWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY VICTORIA GLENDINNINGThe Irish troubles rage, but up at the 'Big House', tennis parties, dances and flirtations with the English officers continue, undisturbed by the ambushes, arrests and burning country

Smoky-House (Goudge Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Giant's House (McCracken Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Little Girls (Bowen Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

In 1914 they had been eleven years old; Fifty years later, Dinah, beautiful as ever, advertises in the national newspapers to find the other two - Clare, now established with a successful business, and Sheila, a married woman, glossy, chic and correct. What are the revelations - and the dangers -

To The North (Bowen Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Markie's appearance disrupts the lives of both women, but in the pain of misunderstanding, it is Emmeline who reveals her vulnerability in a violent and tragic act. Reissued alongside The Hotel and The Little

Friends And Relations (Bowen Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Two of Bowen's most memorable characters are in attendance: Lady Elfrida, a creature of privilege, and Theodora Thirdman, a gawky teenager with zero self-awareness. The sunset of prosperity is upon this complacent, moneyed class, but Bowen's precise and beautiful prose pins real pain and comedy

Bowen's Court & Seven Winters (Bowen Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Bowen's Court describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when Elizabeth Bowen was forced to sell the family house she

View Of The Harbour - A Virago Modern Classic (Taylor Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

'Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters all' Anne TylerIn the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy exterior, passions run high. Beautiful divorcee Tory is painfully involved with her

World Of Love (Bowen Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

A packet of letters, found in an attic, leads young Jane into the world of love. During a hot and dry summer, Jane pursues her romantic imaginings, while not far off the rich, promiscuous Lady Latterly waits to play her part in Jane's

Madeline In London (Bemelmans Ludwig)(Paperback / softback)

'In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines...' Pepito lives next door to Madeline and her friends. When he moves to London, he pines for the twelve little girls terribly. So Miss Clavel and her charges pay him a visit in London...and come

NEW ED (BOWEN ELIZABETH)

Eva Trout (Bowen Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Eva Trout has a 'capacity for making trouble, attracting trouble, strewing trouble around her' that is endless. Eva Trout was Elizabeth Bowen's last completed novel, and in it her elegant style, her gift for social comedy and her intense sensibility combine to create one of her most formidable -

Collected Stories (Bowen Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Features seventy-nine stories such as: love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, and of London during the

Elizabeth Bowen: Theory, Thought and Things (Gildersleeve Jessica)(Paperback)

Explores Elizabeth Bowen's significant contribution to twentieth-century literary theory Provides new avenues for research in Bowen studies in ways that are concerned primarily with Bowen's perception of writing and narrative Moves away from perceptions of Bowen's writing tied to existing

Hotel (Bowen Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

It's the balmy days of the 1920s and where could be more pleasant for a holiday than a hotel on the Italian Riviera? Filled with prosperous English visitors, the Hotel offers a closed world of wealth and comfort. With great wit and insight Elizabeth Bowen's first novel lays bare the intricacies and

Therapist (Paris B A)(Paperback / softback)

When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, an exclusive gated community, it is everything they've dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive...As Alice is getting to know her neighbours, she discovers a devastating secret about her new home, and begins to feel a strong

Girl Next Door (Noble Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

What makes a house a home? For Eve Gallagher, home is miles away in England since she and her husband relocated to an apartment building on New York's Upper East Side. And life isn't remotely coming up roses. What makes a neighbour a friend? Violet has lived in the building for decades but she's

Heat of the Day (Bowen Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Harrison, the British intelligence agent on his trail, wants to bargain, the price for his silence being Stella herself. Caught between two men and unsure who she can trust, the flimsy structures of

Death Of The Heart (Bowen Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

An immaculate portrait of adolescent love from one of our most beloved novelists. 'One of the last century's greatest woman writers' GuardianWhen sixteen-year-old Portia is orphaned, she is plunged into the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy half-brother's

Once in a House on Fire (Ashworth Andrea)(Paperback / softback)

Heirs and Graces (Bowen Rhys)(Paperback / softback)