A generation's dilemma: should we find real jobs and relationships and houses, or shall we sit here, watch television and maybe think about going out later? Emily Perkins is the 1996 winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize....
When Tom moves with his wife Ann from their tiny Camden flat into a large house in Hackney, he feels as if it's the start of the rest of their life together. Deeply in love, and with a baby on the way, everything, Tom thinks, is finally coming to...
Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of New Zealand, to the very end of her life, this ...
Sampson becomes lonely after losing his big brother and best friend Frankie. Until . . . a new puppy named Milo arrives. Sampson soon discovers that Milo is missing manners. Remembering how Frankie taught him manners, Sampson takes on his new role of...
It is the beginning of the summer holidays in a town in the middle of nowhere. Julia and her best friends Chicky and Rachel are school leavers emerging from their girlhood and waiting for the future. They - and their parents - are excited when Mirand...