Women's Fiction

A significant departure for Maggie O'Farrell in terms of maturity and style, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX" "will be one of the unmissable publishing events of 2006. Set between the 1930s,and the present, Maggie O'Farrell's new novel is the story of Esme, a woman edited out of her family's histor... More

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Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three... More

Emma Woodhouse is the lovely, lively, willful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her ow... More

Emma is young, rich, and independent. She has decided to never marry and instead spends her time organizing her acquaintances' love affairs. Her plans for the matrimonial success of her new friend Harriet, however, lead her into complications that ultimately test her own detachment from the world of... More

Emma Woodhouse in introduced to us as handsome, clever and rich and, according to Jane Austen, a heroine which no one but myself would like. Yet such is Emma's spirited wit that, despite her superior airs and egotism, few readers have failed to succumb to her charm. The comedy turns to Emma's self... More

Emma  is the typical rich and clever girl whose overconfidence in her own understanding of people and well-meaning desire to manipulate the lives of her social inferiors as well as some of her equals involve her in a number of  delusions. The shocks and later disappointments she receives h... More

The New York Times number one bestseller - the superb new novel from the acclaimed author of Blessings It’s an otherwise ordinary Monday when Meghan Fitzmaurice’s perfect life hits a wall. A household name as the host of 'Rise and Shine', the country’s highest-rated morning talk show, Meghan c... More

" Tan is one of the prime storytellers writing fiction today." NEWSWEEKWinnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell h... More

Gaskell's witty and poignant comedy of country town life A gently comic picture of life in an English country town in the mid-nineteenth century, "Cranford" describes the small adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle- aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circ... More

Ambitious social climber Becky Sharp is determined to do whatever it takes to get ahead - whether by scheming or by seduction. She leaves Miss Pinkerton's private schools in Chiswick with no money. But with the wits and sexual charms to conquer any man. And, as London's most eligible bachelors prepa... More

The story of English society in the early nineteenth century.... More

Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero is an unparalleled satire of 19th Century British Society, written by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) and originally published in serial format from 1847 to 1848. Meet the charming and cunning Becky Sharp, insinuating upward through the social ranks with ... More

Vanity Fair, which appeared in monthly instalments in 1847 and 1848, is a satirical novel of manners which shows William Thackeray's apprenticeship in satirical and mock-heroic writing. It is from one point of view, a study in which the demands of society operate on human character and vice versa; i... More

These readers have been graded for six continuous years of English teaching. The simplified writing is based on principles of structural control and vocabulary grading adopted in up-to-date courses in India. Each book carries a grading number to indicate the level at which it is suitable for teachin... More

Guides the reader to understand the interplay between loving relationships and the path to spirituality.... More

Ellie and Dan are living proof that opposites attract. He always follows instructions and she throws the manual away. He loves sports whereas Ellie's allergic to any form of exercise. Ellie doesn't have a mother. And Dan does - a mother who wants to take over EVERYTHING. At first Ellie is thrilled t... More