The Black Prince

Iris Murdoch

This title comes with an introduction by Candia Mcwilliam. The Black Prince is both a remarkable thriller and a story about being in love. Bradley Pearson, narrator and hero, is an elderly writer with a 'block'. Finding himself surrounded by predatory friends and relations - his ex-wife, her delinquent ...

The Girl with the Dogs: Penguin Special

Anna Funder

'To live with someone for a long time requires an element of fiction – the selective use of facts to craft an ongoing story.'  Amid the debris of her friends' relationships, Tess has a marriage that's comparatively unscathed.  But she's at a hinge moment, poised between her present life and the one she ...