The cost of living

What does it cost a woman to unsettle old boundaries and collapse the social hierarchies that make her a minor character in the world not arranged to her advantage?

The orange and other poems

The Orange and Other Poems provides the perfect introduction to Wendy Cope, one of Britain's wittiest, best-selling, and best-loved poets. In poems that go from laugh-out-loud funny to deeply moving, Cope offers reflections on love and life. From the joy of falling—and being—in love to how to manage a painful break-up to cherishing the memories of people loved and lost, this is a collectio…

Mary ventura and the ninth kingdom

Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom. 'But what is the ninth kingdom?' she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. 'It is the kingdom of the frozen will,' comes the reply. 'There is no going back.'

Traffic lights

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9787511066732

Collation

8 p. ; ill. ; 15 cm

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F ZHO t

Perfection

Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, plant-filled apartment in Neukölln. They are young digital creatives, freelancers without too many constraints.

Mrs. dalloway

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780143136132

Collation

179 p. ; 21 cm

Series Title

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Call Number

823 WOO m

Ancestor trouble: a reckoning and a reconciliation

An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her wildly unconventional Southern family–and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves.

Yesteryear

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780593804216

Collation

391 p. ; 25 cm

Series Title

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Call Number

823 BUR y

Hooked

Eriko's life appears perfect – devoted parents, spotless apartment and a job in the seafood division of one of Japan's largest trading companies. Her latest project, to reintroduce the controversial Nile perch fish into the Japanese market, is characteristically ambitious. But beneath her flawless surface she is wracked by loneliness. Eriko becomes fascinated with a popular blog written by…

Sweet sweet revenge ltd

Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gallery inheritance, but he has also abandoned his son, Kevin, to die in the middle of the Kenyan savanna. It doesn’t occur to Victor that Kevin might be rescued and adopted by a Maasai medicine man, or that he might be expected to undergo the rituals expected of all new M…