Literature: history and criticism

The Homecoming of Samuel Lake

A bewitching debut novel in the vein of the much-loved classic Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café.

The Confession of Katherine Howard

When 12-year-old Katherine Howard comes to live in the Duchess of Norfolk’s household, poor relation Cat Tilney is deeply suspicious.

The Queen of Subtleties

A tremendously vivid, page-turning and plausible novel that depicts the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn, the most spirited, independent and courageous of Henry’s queens, as viewed from both the bedrooms and the kitchens of the Tudor court.

The Story Sisters

A haunting and emotionally satisfying novel from a much-loved and critically acclaimed author, which weaves fairy tale and gritty realism together to dazzlingly effect.

Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963

This collection brings together the best of C.S. Lewis’s letters, many published for the first time. Arranged in chronological order, this final volume covers the years 1950 – the year ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ was published – through to Lewis’s untimely death in 1963.

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