Sense and Sustainability - Jane AustenCondition: Pre loved 'The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!' Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to

just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert

When she couldn’t satisfy her bulimic addiction

Half a century earlier

darkly comic

Heartbreaking

Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase

the tribulations of family life and the embarrassment that ensues from having larger-than-life parents Neville and Liz Hodgkinson bought into the Thatcherite dream of home ownership

he has told the story of 25

When Nthebolang’s lover is accused of witchcraft

This is the warm hearted

A witty memoir about the trials of adolescence

must be among the most comic inventions of modern literature