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Lady Duff Gordon is the toast of Victorian London. But when her debilitating tuberculosis means exile, she and her devoted lady's maid, Sally, set sail for Egypt. It is Sally who describes, with a mixture of wonder and trepidation, the odd menage marshalled by the resourceful Omar, which travels down the Nile to a...
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In the award-winning film The Piano, writer/director Jane Campion created a story so original and powerful it fascinated millions of moviegoers. This novel stands independent of the film, exploring the mysteries of Ada's muteness, the secret of her daughter's conception, the reason for her strange marriage and the...
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Fran has been married to Nick for more than 12 years, since they were eighteen. They are happy together until a 'little stranger' arrives, in the form of baby Louis, and their lives are irrevocably changed. The boy has good health and a sweet nature, but Fran feels stifled, her old life merely a memory. So, one...
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When the first Asham Award was launched in 1996 - in honour of Asham House, the house in Sussex where Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived - nearly a thousand unknown women writers took part. This is the first anthology of winning stories, published a year later and entitled "The Catch", demonstrated not only the rich...
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American Agnes Samuel is the kind of woman whom people remember: beautiful, witty, cool. But does anyone in the sleepy Fenland village of Warboys remember another Agnes Samuel, a frightened girl betrayed by her neighbours and wrongly condemned to death as a witch?
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This is a dazzling, witty and richly varied collection of short stories, which includes contributions by six much-loved writers - Patricia Duncker, Rachel Cusk, Tessa Hadley, Emily Perkins, Nancy Lee and Kate Pullinger - as well as the twelve brand-new voices of those shortlisted for the Asham Short-Story Award...
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'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world' Virginia Woolf Our world has been conjured by the talented writers collected here. These wonderful and evocative stories have a truly international flavour, taking us from icy Alaska to the burnt outback of Australia, and include tales of...
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In 2001, the Asham Literary Trust organized the third bi-annual competition of short stories by women in honour of Asham House, the house in Sussex where Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived. The competition attracted over nine hundred entries of which the judges selected 12 which are published here together with...
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A tale of obsession revolving around the relationship between Mina and Stephen. They become lovers, but Mina continues to disappear at nights despite Stephen's attempts to force her to be faithful to him, leading him to suspect that there is something sinister about her nocturnal activities. By the author of THE...
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THE LAST TIME I SAW JANE is a novel about love and marriage, race and sex, London and Canada, history and contemporary life.
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Sex, love and relationships inform many of these stories - from clandestine relationships with Prince Charles to romantic encounters inart galleries. They are twinned with a darker group which explores the passion that turns to violence, and how women relate to men who have killed their partners...
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This is a collection of eight witty, modern short stories about sex, food, love and madness from the Canadian novelist and television writer Kate Pullinger.
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This novel concerns three characters living in London who are "outsiders" through race, class and politics. They attempt to see what is changing beneath the terse exterior of Britain. This is Kate Pullinger's first novel. She previously published "Tiny Lies", a book of short stories.
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