An authoress is invited to London by a lecturer who has devoted his life to studying & teaching her novels & short stories. As she arrives to speak to his students he feels he has a chance to resolve the one remaining mystery at the heart of things.

For years, Isobel Latimer has composed serious novels for serious people, but to dwindling acclaim and ever-more dwindling gain. Now her husband is ill and she must carry their financial burden alone, and in secret. But if the public don?t want careful moral fables any longer, why not provide an outrageous tale of sex and satanism, and an author to match? The incomparable, uncontrollable Zelda de Vere is born. What began with the best of intentions...

Anna Wulf is a young novelist with writer's block. Divorced, with a young child, and disillusioned by unsatisfactory relationships, she feels her life is falling apart. In fear of madness, she records her experiences in four coloured notebooks.

In 1891, Tilly Kirkland is reeling with shock and guilt after her tempestuous marriage ends in horrific circumstances. Fleeing to the farthest place she knows, Tilly takes a job on Ember Island in Moreton Bay, Australia, where she becomes the governess to the prison superintendent's precocious young daughter, Nell. Tilly knows she must keep the past hidden in order to start a new life, but she doesn't know that Nell is watching her every move and...

Living with a powerfully ambitious writer who is consumed by his work, and trying to find a place for her own spirit to thrive, Helen Garner rails against the confines. At the same time she is desperate to find the truth in their relationship - and the truth of her own self. This is a harrowing story, a portrait of the messy, painful, dark side of love lost, of betrayal and sadness and the sheer force of a woman?s anger. But it is also a story of...

Engaging, authoritative and meticulously researched, this book offers a comprehensive insight into the life and writing of Georgette Heyer, a remarkable and ferociously private woman.

Jean Rhys was an artist of brilliance and fury best known for her literary masterpiece, 'Wide Sargasso Sea'. But she was also a woman in constant psychological turmoil, never far from the edge. In 'The Blue Hour', Lilian Pizzichini enters Rhys's world.

Early one Autumn afternoon, in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill came across dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read again. This book charts her journey as she revisits the conversations, libraries and bookshelves of the past.

Born in 1920, in the landscape of post-World War 1 Ukraine, her family driven to a distant country by the fearsome pogroms that killed her mother and ruined her father, Clarice Lispector triumphed over her origins to become a person whose beauty, genius, and eccentricity intrigues all of Brazil's writers & artists.

As an internationally bestselling phenomenon and queen of the Regency Romance, Georgette Heyer is one of the most beloved historical novelists. With this biography we catch a glimpse into Georgette Heyer's world, and that of her most memorable characters. It describes a formidable and energetic woman, with an impeccable sense of style.