This is one of the most acclaimed novels of the last two decades and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction

Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphans growing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America. Abandoned by a succession of relatives, the sisters find themselves in the care of Sylvie, the remote and enigmatic sister of their dead mother. Steeped in imagery of the bleak wintry landscape around them, the sisters' struggle towards adulthood is ...

Passionate, independent-minded nonfiction from the international bestselling author of 'The Corrections'.

Written by the author of The Barracks Thief , This Boy's Life and Hunters in the Snow , this collection of stories looks at how people rewrite their own histories, and examines how revenge, as another urge to put things right, can take curious forms.

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax.

Miles Roby, a gentle, funny loser, runs the Empire Grill and hopes one day to own it. Meantime, though, his wife has run off with his worst customer, he's anxious about his adored teenage daughter and his one-handed brother, and his incorrigible father sponges off everyone.