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I have always loved the Golem story. This one is hauntingly mythic and still almost frighteningly contemporary. That the creator is a rabbi's daughter, not a son, opens a door into a wider exploration of the power of this ancient tale.
'Oh, what a book this is! Hoffman's exploration of the world of good and evil, and the constant contest between them, is unflinching; and the humanity she brings to us - it is a glorious experience. The book builds and builds, as she weaves together, seamlessly, the stories of people in the most desperate of circumstances - and then it delivers with a tremendous punch. It opens up the world ... in a way that is absolutely unique. By the end you may be weeping' Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
The year that women were first allowed to earn degrees at Oxford coincided with a time in which the Great War had swallowed many of the men who might have been their husbands. A life of the mind begins to seem a possible choice. Anyone who loved Dorothy Sayers' "Gaudy Night" will love this.
'Entertaining and moving...I came to love these four women as though they were my sisters' TRACY CHEVALIER
'I ADORED it. What a fantastic read. My book of the year' JILL MANSELL
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They knew they were changing history. They didn't know they would change each other.
Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its 1000-year history, the world's most famous university has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams of equality, education and emancipation, four young women move into neighbouring rooms on Corridor Eight. They have come here from all walks of life, and they are thrown into an unlikely, life-affirming…
