Nobody at The Eyrie is quite like Red Dora?in her eighties, she's a Scots ex-Communist, ex-Trotskyite who fought in the Spanish Civil War. With her fiery brand of radical anticapitalism, she conjures
Wiltshire 1860: One year after Darwin's explosive publication of The Origin of Species, sisters Anna and Beatrice Pentecost awaken to a world shattered by science, radicalism and the stirrings of femi
One year after Darwin’s explosive publication of The Origin of Species, sisters Anna and Beatrice Pentecost awaken to a world shattered by science, radicalism, and the stirrings of feminist rebellion.
[O]ne of our most consistent and continually undervalued writers’ The Guardian Davies writes with an intensity which is simultaneously disturbing and exhilarating’ Times Literary Supplement Sebastian
Making connections between the Suez Canal War in 1949 and the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this novel about a British couple's disastrous marriage is told by their daughter, who has discovere
Subjecting biographical evidence to close examination, Stevie Davies' book questions the legibility of Emily Brontë's life-records, explores the symphonic qualities of Wuthering Heights and establishe
Although the Brontes have long fascinated readers of fiction and biography, their poetry was all too little known until this pioneering selection by Stevie Davies, the novelist and critic. Charlotte
A new edition of one of Penguin's top ten Classics-the novel that has been "teaching true strength of character for generations" (The Guardian) A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre has daz
"I no longer love my husband – I HATE him! The word stares at me in the face like a guilty confession" Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who
