Bogman by Walter Macken

Bogman by Walter MackenAn orphan returns from Dublin to live with his tyrannical grandfather in a small village in the country. Walter Macken paints a memorable portrait of the hard life of subsistence farming, of loveless arranged marriages, and of rebellion against suffocating social mores.

Alice is accompanied on her journey of trials and tribulations by the frantic White Rabbit

addressing whether our assumptions about power itself are inherently sexist and in need of evaluation

This is the story of Twill Twist - and her journey through the gambling dens and workhouses of London

'Bird on the Wire'

A new relationship couldn't have come at a better time - her thirties have not been the liberating

tailors and traitors

'The most perfectly balanced collection of stories I know' Ann Patchett

State and family

from ancient representations of Athena to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign

In the morning

she writes: "Say the word history: I see / your mother

an unexpected future