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Selected and with a New Introduction by Tessa Hadley • A girl shares her secret den. A couple stroll through a ruined city. A man walks into a ladies' hat shop. A teacher dreams of killing her pupil • Spanning the 1920s to the post-war years, this new selection brings Elizabeth Bowen's finest short stories together for the first time. Elegant and subtle, they showcase Bowen's ability to evoke ineffable emotions - grief, nostalgia, self-consciousness, dread - and combine remarkable psychological insight with vivid settings, from the countryside of Bowen's native Ireland to the streets of her London home after the Blitz • Encompassing characters from many walks of life and a vast array of moods, these are intricate journeys of domesticity and discovery, of the homely and uncanny, of the mind and body

A girl shares her secret den. A couple stroll through a ruined city. A man walks into a ladies' hat shop. A teacher dreams of killing her pupil • Spanning the 1920s to the post-war years, this new selection brings Elizabeth Bowen's finest short stories together for the first time. Elegant and subtle, they showcase Bowen's ability to evoke ineffable emotions - grief, nostalgia, self-consciousness, dread - and combine remarkable psychological insight with vivid settings, from the countryside of Bowen's native Ireland to the streets of her London home after the Blitz • Encompassing characters from many walks of life and a vast array of moods, these are intricate journeys of domesticity and discovery, of the homely and uncanny, of the mind and body

Celebrated for her much-admired novels, including The Heat of the Day and The Death of the Heart, Bowen established herself in the front rank of the century's writers equally through her short fiction • WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. N. WILSON • Throughout these seventy-nine stories - love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, of London during the Blitz - Elizabeth Bowen combines social comedy and reportage, perception and vision in an oeuvre which reveals, as Angus Wilson affirms in his introduction, that 'the instinctive artist is there at the very heart of her work'

The first novel from one of the twentieth century's most admired and stylish writers • It's the balmy days of the 1920s and where could be more pleasant for a holiday than a hotel on the Italian Riviera? Filled with prosperous English visitors, the Hotel offers a closed world of wealth and comfort. It also provides the stage for the display of social niceties, for passionate but unspoken love affairs and for the comedy of the shared bathroom. With great wit and insight Elizabeth Bowen's first novel lays bare the intricacies and eccentricities of polite society

Gone Girl meets Mean Girls in this sharp and clever thriller from the publishers of The Never List • Hollywood It Girl Janie Jenkins has it all • The looks, the brains, the money, the fame • Oh, and the murder conviction – for killing her mother • Out of jail and on the run, she’s determined to prove her innocence and find out what really happened the night her mother died • The only problem? • Janie’s not totally sure that she is innocent…

Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman • Yet, to eight-year-old Bunny, his mother is the centre of his universe. To Robert, her elder son, she is someone he must protect against the dangers of the outside world. And to her husband, James, she is the foundation on which his family rests and life without her is unimaginable • As the dark winter of 1918 dawns and the shadow of Spanish flu starts to disturb day-to-day life, a moving portrait of Elizabeth takes shape, set against the lives and fate of the Morison family

Eva is walking by the river with her seven-year-old daughter when they catch sight of a man’s body in the water. Eva tells her daughter to wait while she calls the police, but when she reaches the phone box she doesn’t call them. Instead she phones her father, and makes no mention of her discovery • When the body is eventually found, it soon becomes clear to Inspector Sejer and his team that this was no accidental drowning – the man was the victim of a very violent killer. But the trail has gone cold. Until, one night, Eva receives a phone call

The fourth novel by Elizabeth Bowen, described by the Guardian as 'One of the last century's greatest woman writers' • Cecilia, capricious and unable to love, inches reluctantly towards a second marriage to the kind, passionless Julian Tower. Meanwhile, her sister-in-law, Emmeline, is surprised to find the calm tenor of her life disturbed by her attraction to the predatory Mark Linkwater. Markie's appearance disrupts the lives of both women, but in the pain of misunderstanding, it is Emmeline who reveals her vulnerability in a violent and tragic act

Genteel life at 'the 'Big House' continues while the Irish War of Independence rages beyond the gates, but for how long? • Read Elizabeth Bowen's accessible feminist take on the Irish aristocracy • WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY VICTORIA GLENDINNING • The Irish troubles rage, but up at the 'Big House', tennis parties, dances and flirtations with the English officers continue, undisturbed by the ambushes, arrests and burning country beyond the gates. Faint vibrations of discord reach the young girl Lois, who is straining for her own freedom, and she will witness the troubles surge closer and reach their irrevocable, inevitable climax

Two sisters, two weddings, just months apart. These marriages produce a tangle of friends, relations and lovers that starts to unravel ten years later, during one intense week. Two of Bowen's most memorable characters are in attendance: Lady Elfrida, a creature of privilege, and Theodora Thirdman, a gawky teenager with zero self-awareness. The sunset of prosperity is upon this complacent, moneyed class, but Bowen's precise and beautiful prose pins real pain and comedy upon its inhabitants

"Дом в Париже" - неподвластный времени шедевр нюансов и атмосферы, представляющий собой самое лучшее из работ Боуэна • Когда одиннадцатилетняя Генриетта приезжает в резиденцию Фишеров в Париже, она даже не подозревает, какие захватывающие секреты таит в себе сам дом. Генриетта обнаруживает, что ее визит совпадает с визитом Леопольда, энергичного ребенка, который приехал в Париж, чтобы познакомиться с матерью, которую он никогда не знал. В течение одного дня тайна, окружающая Леопольда, его родителей, взволнованную хозяйку Генриетты и умирающую матриарху в постели наверху, медленно и мучительно раскрывается • Книга на английском языке • A timeless masterpiece of nuance and atmosphere that represents the very best of Bowen's work • When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers' residence in Paris, little does she know what fascinating secrets the house itself contains

Р. К. Нараян - один из самых уважаемых и обожаемых романистов Индии двадцатого века. Он занимает свое место рядом с Грэмом Грином, Элизабет Боуэн и Чеховым в пантеоне великих людей двадцатого века • В романе "Учитель английского" Кришна, учитель английского языка в городе Мальгуди, изводимый чувством, что он делает неправильную работу, тем не менее в восторге от своей семейной жизни, где жена и маленькая дочь ждут его снаружи дома каждый день после обеда. Опустошенный смертью своей жены, Кришна приходит к пониманию того, чем он на самом деле хочет заниматься, и принимает решение, которое навсегда изменит его жизнь • Книга на английском языке • R. K. Narayan is one of India's most valued and adored twentieth-century novelists. He takes his place alongside Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen and Chekhov in the pantheon of twentieth-century greats