Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles is a daring and unconventional novel that explores the lives of two eccentric women seeking meaning and liberation in a world defined by societal norms and expectations. With her sharp wit and singular voice, Bowles crafts a story that is as enigmatic as it is compelling.The narrative follows the parallel yet divergent journeys of Christina Goering, a wealthy recluse with a penchant for self-imposed challenges, and Frieda Copperfield, a restless wom...

Jane Bowles’s avant-garde study of women breaking free from the bonds of convention is itself a master class in liberation from the constraints of everyday thinking, form, and feeling.Two Serious Ladies is the only novel ever written by the legendary and underappreciated Jane Bowles. Long held as a visionary cult classic, this subversive, anarchic, and riotous novel follows two upper-class women as they strip themselves of propriety and descend into debauc...

“The most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters . . . Her work, her life: deep truth, observed without pretension, with humor and humanity. As artist and person, an angel.” —Tennessee WilliamsIn these uncanny and insidious tales, Jane Bowles presents an incendiary and groundbreaking vision of the mad possibilities of literary modernism. From “Everything Is Nice,” where an American woman is led to a house in a “blue Moslem town” by a veiled wo...

'My favourite book. I can't think of a modern novel that seems more likely to become a classic' Tennessee Williams'The book I give as a gift . . . It feels like giving someone an exotic fruit' Sheila Heti**'**A modern legend . . . A very funny writer' Truman Capote'Profoundly witty, genuinely unusual in its apprehensions, and bracingly, humanely true' Claire MessudI am going on a tr...

Jane Bowles has for many years had an underground reputation as one of the truly original writers of the twentieth century. The collection in My Sister's Hand in Mine of expertly crafted short fiction will fully acquaint all students and scholars with the author Tennessee Williams called "the most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters."

'It's the truth,' the women said from their mattress 'Everything is nice'.'Readers who've not yet read Jane Bowles are almost to be envied, like people who've still to read Austen or Mansfield or Woolf'Ali Smith'Jane Bowles's literary output, small but perfect, puts her on a stylistic planet all her own'New Yorker'A dizzyingly original stylist'New York Times

'It's the truth,' the women said from their mattress 'Everything is nice'.'Readers who've not yet read Jane Bowles are almost to be envied, like people who've still to read Austen or Mansfield or Woolf'Ali Smith'Jane Bowles's literary output, small but perfect, puts her on a stylistic planet all her own'New Yorker'A dizzyingly original stylist'

'My favourite book. I can't think of a modern novel that seems more likely to become a classic' TENNESSEE WILLIAMS'The book I give as a gift... It feels like giving someone an exotic fruit.' SHEILA HETI**'**A modern legend ... A very funny writer' TRUMAN CAPOTE'I am going on a trip. Wait until I tell you about it. it's terrible.'Miss Goering, an eccentric, impulsive New York heiress, resides i...

10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America—and the search for what it means to call a place home. • From the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun • WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR"An expansive, epic love story."—O, The Oprah MagazineOne of the New York...

Madeline Fraser, radio talk show host extraordinaire, had a natural dread of dead air. So when one of her on-air guests signed off at the mike after drinking a glass of a sponsor’s beverage, it was a broadcaster’s nightmare come true. Enter Nero Wolfe. He agrees to take the case, with his sizable fee contingent on his solving the murder. But to Wolfe’s surprise, everyone connected to the case now lies in unison about it. And as the portly detective soon discovers, the secret worth lying ab...

Mills & Boon presents the complete Betty Neels collection. Timeless tales of heart-warming romance by one of the world’s best-loved romance authors.What were his plans for her?When Jane needed help, she was amazed that it was the charismatic surgeon Nikolaas van der Vollenhove who tore himself away from his busy schedule to come to her rescue. A renowned workaholic, it was obvious that he had no time for anything—or anyone—in his l...

In three stories, Lord Peter Wimsey confronts land barons, killers—and fatherhood: "One of the most skillful of mystery writers" ( The New York Times ).For decades, Lord Peter Wimsey has made life tough for England's criminal class. In town and country he solved some of the most baffling mysteries of the Jazz Age, facing down killers armed only with wit, charm, and a keen nose for deception. His ...