The Vet's Daughter : A Virago Modern Classic by Barbara Comyns

The Vet's Daughter : A Virago Modern Classic by Barbara Comyns'A small Gothic masterpiece . . . I have read it many times, and with every re read I marvel again at its many qualities' SARAH WATERS'A wonderful and original novel' ALAN HOLLINGHURST'The strange off beat talent of Barbara Comyns [whose] innocent eye observes with child like simplicity the most fantastic or the most ominous occurrence' GRAHAM GREENE 'Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else' MAGGIE O'FARRELLI comforted myself with the knowledge

this builds the world of 1660 from the ground up

hoping to unravel the legacy of silences and contradictions that she inherited from that night onwards

a steam-powered launch captained by Cockney mechanic

detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel

James Bond

Certified Applied Animal Behaviourist and coauthor of Total Cat Mojo 'Reading Dr Brown's book has only strengthened my love of and fascination with cats

they had lots of questions about planets

and Paterniti found himself implicated in ways he never expected

life as she knows it will never be the same again

Buckley’s provocative history demonstrates that the British Army was more than a match for the vaunted Nazi war machine

Hannah Kent travelled to Iceland from Australia

It’s the story of her childhood best friend Juno and their life in 30s Cairo