Collection: Adult Fiction

Two wonderful stories about members of the Glass family by the author of 'The Catcher in the Rye'. The first story takes place in downtown New Haven during the weekend of 'the Yale game' and follows Franny Glass on a date with her collegiate boyfriend. The second focuses on Zooey Glass, a somewha...

Subject: This book contains certain concepts and language that would now be considered outdated and do not represent the views and beliefs of The Centre. The book aims to provide an insight into the various immigrant communities that have developed in Britain.

Margaret Cavendish was one of the seventeenth century's most striking figures, a woman who ventured into the male spheres of politics, science, philosophy and literature. This volume contains 3 of her works about the role of women.

To those customers who visit her Indian spice shop in Oakland, California, Tilo dispenses wisdom and the appropriate spice; fenugreek makes a rejected wife desirable again. But her powers are limited, for they vanish the moment she falls in love.

Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, this is the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel who try to craft a childhood for themselves amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother's factory.

The Napoleonic Wars shape and colour this love story set in a Wessex village near the coast, astir with the fears and military preparations of its time. Hardy tells the story of Anne Garland and her 3 suitors, sailor, soldier and militia-man.