The Charm Bracelet

Rebecca West (Author)

Cousin Rosamund

Two young women come of age in a novel "unbelievably rich in character, incident, and observation."

Andrew Barrow (Author)

The Tap Dancer

'My favourite novel and one I wish I'd written.' ALAN BENNETT Winner of the McKitterick Prize for best first novel by an author aged over 40, and the Hawthornden Prize for imaginative literature. Everyone craves retirement from the Civil Service, don't they? That time for an ageing patriarch to enjoy the fruits of a well-earned pension and the respect of his family; maybe even to indulge in a love of music halls and metropolitan life. If only people would listen and do as they were told... His fourth son William, the long-suffering narrator, is the constant butt of his father's jokes and victim of his brothers' indifference. But as death, divorce and other darker dramas follow, father and son slowly establish a strange harmony.

R. Raj Rao (Author)

Hostel Room 131. by R. Raj Rao

In the winter of 1978, Siddharth meets Sudhir in a friend's friend's room at college. He falls insta