This text is an updated edition of Flaubert's classic tale. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion.

This romance is Daphne du Maurier's first novel.

This is the story of Julie - the dutiful daughter, the romantic heroine, the perfect wife and mother. But Julie knows she is also the witch, the whore, the madwoman, the lesbian. As her two worlds threaten to collide, she realises she must come to terms with the different aspects of her psyche.

Helen is in conflict with her suburban upbringing, her independence, her creativity, and generations of silence surrounding notions of gender and sexual behaviour. This story is a daring exploration of female sexuality.

* 'A masterpeice' Kathryn Hughes. * Now out in paperback

A feast of short stories from the writer who has made the sensual language of food and eating all her own

Genevieve is maid to Madame Patin in a country bar and cafe and becomes the breathless audience to her mistress's folk stories, beginning with the siren-calling mermaid. As Genevieve's own comeliness ripens to siren-like beauty, she takes flight, only to end up with another word-spinner - the poet.

More famous for her sensuous novels, Michele Roberts now writes a short, sharp and witty novel in the spirit of Muriel Spark. 'A triumphant tour de force' Time Out

'Utterly beguiling' Joanna Trollope

This is a novel about desire and envy; siblings, stalkers and obsessive love. It is set in contemporary London and the 1970s with its culture of free love and has a thriller element.

Drawing on the secrets, lives and affairs of two of the most famous and passionate figures of the 18th century - Mary Wollstonecraft and William Wordsworth - this is Michele Roberts most accessible and romantic novel to date

More famous for her sensuous novels, Michele Roberts now writes a short, sharp and witty novel in the spirit of Muriel Spark

In the mould of John O'Farrell's Things Can Only Get Better, this is a highly articulate and moving portrait of a time and place: alternative London of the 1970 and 80s.

* The much-acclaimed collection of poetry by Michele Roberts

More famous for her sensuous novels, Michele Roberts now writes a short, sharp and witty novel in the spirit of Muriel Spark

Freddy thinks he has committed matricide, and his fantasies - or perhaps realities - become stories which twist back through time to varying landscapes. He searches for a home, only to find it in an unexpected place. When able and allowed to return to the present, he can choose which tale to tell.

Writing as exquisite and tactile as this is not to be missed' - DAILY MAIL A novel about memory and desire and about different kinds of love.