I am not writing this to be sentimental. I am just trying to find an answer to a story...An artistic girl in Renaissance Venice, quietly rebelling against the constraints of her gender.A young milordi on a European Grand Tour, recognising the world and his secret sexuality.A ballerina in nineteenth-century Paris, choosing between suitors.A Greek mother, beginning a new life with her family in a migrant reception centre in regional Aust...

'Quietly transformational'The Times'A tour de force... I can't recommend this too highly'Patrick Gale'Innovative... an original, at-a-sitting read'Daily Mail'A potent meditation on the intensity of women's lives'Charlotte Wood, author of The Weekend'A miracle... Engaging and evocative'Washington Post...

A novel about three women at turning points in their lives, and the one night that changes everything.One night, three women go to the theater to see a play. Wildfires are burning in the hills outside, but inside the theater it is time for the performance to take over.Margot is a successful, flinty professor on the cusp of retirement, distracted by her fraught relationship with her adult son and her ailing husband. After a traumatic past, Ivy is is now a ph...

A unique new insight into multilingual families, this book views multilingual childhoods from the point of the child and is based on over 50 interviews with adults who grew up in multilingual settings. The book charts their recollections of their childhoods and includes many different types of families, discusses many of the common issues that arise in multilingual families, and draws examples from all over the world. The book fills a significant gap in the literature and resources availab...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FICTION BOOK AWARD, QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS 2026From the internationally acclaimed, prize-winning author of The Performance and Fugitive Blue comes a remarkable work of literary fictionA woman arrives in Geneva, the first stop in a train journey through the country of her father's birth. She yearns to be outside time - untethered and alone - but she soon becomes immersed in the stories resonating all...

'Quietly transformational'The Times'Innovative... an original, at-a-sitting read'Daily Mail'A potent meditation on the intensity of women's lives'Charlotte Wood, author of The Weekend'A miracle... Engaging and evocative'Washington Post*'*I loved and admired The Performance... Unmissable'Emma Stonex, autho...

A novel about three women at turning points in their lives, and the one night that changes everything.One night, three women go to the theater to see a play. Wildfires are burning in the hills outside, but inside the theater it is time for the performance to take over.Margot is a successful, flinty professor on the cusp of retirement, distracted by her fraught relationship with her adult son and her ailing husband. After a traumatic past, Ivy is is now a ph...

If you think having the devil snapping at your heels is scary, its nothing compared to finding Gods calm presence at your back every time you stop to draw breath in your race to escapeparticularly for a determined agnostic like Claire. Indeed, His presence is so unnerving and unwelcome that its not until her world crumbles to ashes that she fi nds the courage to stop running and turn toward Him. Moderately psychic and a most earthbound mystic, Claire has heard the voice of Thomas from the ...

PO Box 500, London W2 the nondescript address from behind which one of the worlds most famous secret services hid: MI5. Drawing on previously secret sources, this book lifts the lid on Britains Security Service in its battle against German and Soviet espionage. It tells the sensational stories of the officers and agents and the enemies they confronted, from MI5s creation in 1909 under the direction of Vernon Kell, Britains first spymaster.Building on the services wartime success, M...

Danielle runs a bakery and lives above it with her son. Noah enters the bakery one morning. Sparks don't fly. However, he's impressed with her baking and wants to help her launch her business to new heights with a marketing campaign he'll design. She refuses. After a chance encounter after school picking up their kids, they realize their kids are friends. Noah and his daughter spend more time at the bakery and soon, Noah and Dani are baking more than just cookies! Will he launch the right ...

PO Box 500, London W2; the nondescript address from behind which one of the worlds most famous Secret Services hid: MI5. This book, based on previously secret sources, lifts the lid on Britains Security Service.The authors look in detail at MI5s role in the post-Cold War world; in particular, they consider its changing role as it took on the main responsibility in countering terrorist threats to Britain. Controversy has never been far away during MI5s battle against the IRA, which ...

A comprehensive introduction to yoga geared to men of all ages and backgrounds—whether they're athletic or sedentary, young or old, devotees of yoga seek new information to enhance their existing practices or neophytes just starting out of their yoga journals.