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On the night following the terrorist massacre on the beach of Sousse, Tunisia, a woman writes an ...

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Inspired by the Italian performance artist Pippa Bacca, who tragically died while hitchhiking acr...

Hemingway famously said that 'the best early training for a writer is an unhappy childhood'. Juli...

Set in a part of the island nation of Mauritius which tourists never see, this poetic thriller co...

The demented romance between an elderly white woman and a British-Jamaican boy, comes to horrific...

'Louise Bourgeois talks, talks to herself, reviewing the scraps of her long life in all their dis...

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A woman addresses letters to an absent loved one while in the apartment opposite hers, a mysterio...

Over the course of a night in police custody, a young woman tries to understand the rage that led...

In an anonymous French village a child loves to wander a forest where his mother may have disappe...

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK 2023; Eastbound maps the fast-paced story of two fugitives on the Tran...

Through a seemingly anarchic but subtly crafted chorus of female voices, from feminist thinkers i...

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In the late 1850s, Celina, a young girl aged fifteen, takes up work as a maid for the Victor Hugo...

Penelope Curtis reimagines the life of her grandmother Nora, a painter whom she never knew but wh...

Ari, Eleni and Hesper meet one summer at Golden Apples Farm in rural California, where the charis...

Charlotte Beeston's debut charts the ebb and flow of the grieving process, explored through the p...

With over 160 delicious recipes, most of themvegetarian, combined with piquant storytelling and f...

On an unnamed English campus in the early 2020s, a young woman in her final year of a degree in p...

My mother and I have been writing her obituary. We have been working on it for several years now....

Rural Iraq, during the war against the so-called Islamic State. A pregnancy out of wedlock. The y...