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Green Dolphin Country

Elizabeth Goudge.
Introduced by Eileen Goudge

First published in 1935, 1944,
Green Dolphin Country
is an epic tale of love, courage and selfless devotion, set in the Channel Islands and New Zealand in the nineteenth century, written with Elizabeth Goudge’s inimitable feeling for the intricacies of human emotions.

“Breathtaking … A long vista of undulating story, with here and there peaks of volcanic excitement.”
Daily Telegraph

Potiki

Patricia Grace.
Introduced by Kirsty Gunn

Potiki
is a mesmerizing novel about a coastal Maori community threatened with resettlement. The danger to their existence in all that it means to them is mortal, and the outcome dramatic.

Potiki
won the New Zealand Book Award for fiction.

Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë
. Introduced by Isabel Quigly

First published in 1847, and thought to be based on Anne Brontë’s own experiences,
Agnes Grey
is a milestone in English literature, offering a wry, penetrating observation of middle-class Victorian Britain.

“The most perfect prose narrative in English letters.”
George Moore

The Man Who Loved Children

Christina Stead.
Introduced by Angela Carter

The Man Who Loved Children
is an astonishing account of the crumbling of an American bourgeois family. Intimate, accurate and savagely funny, it is also unforgettably moving.

“The whole book is different from any book you have read before. What other book represents – tries to represent, even – a family in such conclusive detail?”
Randall Jarell

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