Fourth Estate
Book of Colours
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In the year 1320, in anticipation of a major family inheritance, Lady Mathilda commissions a book of hours: an exquisite…
The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History
As Yetemegn lay dying, she was anxious to leave and yet worried that she had not fasted and prayed enough.…
Peculiar Ground
Set in both the 1660s and the 1960s, this debut novel explores the workings of a fictional English manor house…
Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars
In 1965 London, successful American actress Iolanthe (Lanny) Green walks out of the theatre where she had been starring and…
Barkskins
What is it that makes Annie Proulx’s voice so compelling, so completely her own? She creates characters and situations and…
Winter
Thomas Hardy was a prolific 19th-century novelist and poet, whose books about life and love in rural England used to…
Stalin’s Daughter
Born in 1926, Svetlana Stalina was raised in the Kremlin. When she was six, her mother committed suicide. Relatives were…
A Reunion of Ghosts
Lady, Vee and Delph Alter are three sisters in their forties, writing what they describe as a family memoir, a…
John the Pupil
In 1217, friar and magus Roger Bacon, an inventor and scientist, is teacher to a young man named John at…
We Are Not Ourselves
What are the effects of a devastating illness on a family? How does a family adapt to a new normal…
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