The Hanburys of Egypt Hill are the last word in bohemian living — or so they think. Michael, a young student who first encounters the family at a party fo...

A luminous, powerful novel that establishes Rachel Cusk as one of the finest writers in the English language.A man and a woman are seated next to each oth...

Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel.Agnes Day is mildly discontent. As a child, she never wanted to be an Agnes — she wanted to be a pleasi...

Since quitting work to look after his eight-year-old daughter, Alexa, Thomas Bradshaw has found solace and grace in his daily piano study. His pursuit of ...

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.Stella Benson answers a classified ad for an au pair, arriving in a tiny Sussex village that's home to a family ...

Casting off a northern winter and an orderly life, a family decides to sell everything and go to Italy to search for art and its meanings, for freedom fro...

In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten years came to an end. In the months that followed, life as she had known it came apart, 'like a jigsa...

When one of corporate London's transient typists unexpectedly crosses Ralph Loman's path, her disruptive beauty ignites a brief blaze of excitement in his...