Diagnosed with epilepsy at 13, Jane's life took a wild turn full of seizures, specialists, and some seriously strange hospital adventures. But instead of letting it break her, she learned to laugh—at the chaos, the cringe, and even the curveballs. Laughing Through the Storm is a hilariously honest memoir about finding resilience, ridiculousness, and unexpected joy in the middle of life's messiest moments.

In the Australian outback, a lone farmer prepares her homestead for the latest in a growing wave of bushfires. In Oxfordshire, an elderly man protests the cutting down of an ancient beech tree by chaining himself to its trunk. In the depths of space, two evacuees from a scorched and barren Earth consider whether to tell the rest of the crew that their old home may be starting to heal…The stories in Jane Rogers' much-awaited second collection shine an unflinching light on the future...

Winner of the Writers' Guild Best Fiction Book Award, 1996The year is 1788, the place New South Wales. Marine Lieutenant William Dawes has arrived in the Antipodes to build an observatory, reform the convicts and understand the Aborigines. He is a good man who will be subject to many temptations.In England, now, a child is born. His mother knows he has extraordinary powers; his father knows he is a helpless cripple. Olla, defending and nurturing her miraculous son, emerges ...

From the multi-award-winning and critically acclaimed author of The Testament of Jessie Lamb comes this riveting novel about the devastating secrets revealed in the midst of a disintegrating marriage.The story of a marriage, and of two lives in science.When Conrad fails to return from a conference, Eleanor wonders if it is because of the affair she is having? Or perhaps it is because his research into transgenic monkey hearts is stalling; perhaps he is sick of havi...

A nineteenth century prophet claims seven young women for his own in this "engaging, serious and gleefully ironic novel" based on true events ( The New York Times Book Review).A New York Times Notable BookIn the 1820s, Prophet John Wroe settled his Christian Israelite church in Lancashire, England, where he and his followers awaited the end of the world. And when God told Wroe to find "comfort and succour" with seven virgins, his f...

In a chilling future, one 16-year-old girl is driven to the ultimate act of heroism. The Testament of Jessie Lamb, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, is the breakout novel from award-winning author Jane Rogers. Its cunningly drawn characters and riveting vision of a dystopic future fraught with difficult moral choices will make The Testament of Jessie Lamb an instant favorite for fans of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tal...

A novel that delves into "the psychology behind the choice between career and homemaker faced by so many women. Delicately written and highly recommended" ( Library Journal).What happens when your husband falls in love with the woman you might have become?Eighteen-year-old Carolyn Tanner lies in a hospital bed. Recovering from an accident, she imagines herself returning to her parents' home, marrying her childhood sweetheart, and becoming a mother....

A virus that kills pregnant women has been let loose, and women are dying by the millions. Some blame scientists, some see the hand of God and some see human arrogance reaping the punishment it deserves. Jessie Lamb is an ordinary girl living in extraordinary times: as her world collapses, her idealism and courage drive her toward the ultimate act of heroism. If the human race is to survive, it’s up to her.But is Jessie heroic? Or is she, as her father fears, impressionable, innoce...

A bank manager arrives at work one day to find himself the new employer of his ex-wife.In the middle of a shift a divorced bus driver abandons his vehicle, to search for his estranged son.Two sisters come to terms with their father’s disappearance with the help of a skeleton called Indira.The stories in Ellipsis 2 explore the inherent dysfunctionality of almost all relationships, their aftermaths, and the lengths people go to to redeem them. From the ingrained resen...

In this "unsettling and resonant novel" by the acclaimed author of Mr. Wroe's Virgins, an orphan seeks revenge on her birth mother in rural Scotland ( Michiko Kakutani , The New York Times).Having spent her traumatic childhood in and out of foster homes, twenty-eight-year-old Nikki Black has decided to finally take control of her life. That begins with finding her birth mother, Phyllis: the woman who abandoned he...

**Long-listed for the 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize****Short-listed for the 2013 Edge Hill Short Story Prize**A young textile designer quits Britain to work for a Nigerian women’s refuge, confident that this is her one chance to make a difference…A sixteen-year-old uses his first job, as a window-cleaner, to peer into other people’s lives and carefully plan his own…A leading scientist spends an evening trying to explain ...

The author of Mr. Wroe's Virgins "writes about a woman writing about writing and gets triumphantly away with it . . . a novel of tremendous readability" ( Independent).Driving through the snowbound Yorkshire countryside, stopping at anonymous hotels, Marion is prepared to do anything to escape her memories. She begins to write stories, stories that take her into other people's lives. But as she is drawn back into her own world, she must face the t...