'Wise, provocative and wildly endearing' Guardian'Readably juicy and surreptitiously smart' Barbara KingsolverTHE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLERA Meghan Markle Book RecommendationRosemary doesn't talk much, and about certain things she's silent. She had a sister, Fern, her whirlwind other half, who vanished from her life in circumstances she wishes she could forget. And it's been ten ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 OPEN BOOK'Brilliantly recounts the story of the American theatrical dynasty that produced Lincoln's assassin' Sunday Times Book of the MonthIn 1822, a stage is set: Englishman Junius Booth - celebrated Shakespearean actor and man of mesmerising charm and instab...

Karen Joy Fowler leads a celebration of Jane Austen. Hope Davis reads selections from Austen's classic works.

**Best Book of the YearReal Simple • AARP • USA Today • NPR • Virginia LivingLonglisted for the 2022 Booker PrizeFrom the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth.**In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to fa...

**Winner of the PEN/Faulkner AwardFinalist for the Man Booker PrizeA Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the CenturyThe New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family that is ordinary in every way but one in this award-winning novel.**Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. “I wa...

PREMIO PEN/FAULKNER 2014 «UN LIBRO DAL GRANDE CUORE, INCREDIBILMENTE INTELLIGENTE, PROFONDO E AMBIZIOSO». KHALED HOSSEINI Non possiamo dirvi qui il fondamentale segreto di questo libro, che scoprirete leggendo. Possiamo però riferire quel che ne ha scritto la giuria del PEN/ Faulkner, uno dei più prestigiosi premi letterari americani, assegnato nel 2014 a Siamo tutti completamente fuori di noi: «Fowler dà un nuovo significato al principio secondo cui “ogni famiglia infelice è infelice a mo...

A moving, wise and delightfully modern comedy of manners from the bestselling, Man Booker shortlisted author Karen Joy Fowler.Six people - five women and a man - meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin...

Set in the Old West, this is the strange, magical tale of Sarah Canary and the ragtag band of misfits and lovers she trails in her wakeWhen black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a railway camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to escort 'the ugliest woman he could imagine' away. Far away. But Chin soon becomes the follower. In the first of many such instances, they are separated, both resurfacing some days later at an insa...

*PRE-ORDER KAREN JOY FOWLER'S NEW AUDIOBOOK, BOOTH, TODAY*'Wise, provocative and wildly endearing' Guardian'Readably juicy and surreptitiously smart' Barbara KingsolverTHE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLERRosemary doesn't talk much, and about certain things she's silent. She had a sister, Fern, her whirlwind other half, who vanished from her life in circumstances she wishes she could forget. And it's been ten years since she last saw her beloved older brother Lowell.

First collection since the success of The Jane Austen Book Club brought Karen Joy Fowler to a whole new readership.Contains two Nebula Award winners: "Always" and "What I Didn't See."First collection since World Fantasy Award winning collection Black Glass.Like Jonathan Lethem and Michael Chabon, Fowler has a broad literary audience as well as a dedicated genre readership.Collects stories from magazines as diverse as McSweeney's, Conjunctio...

Two unlikely people form an unexpected bond in bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler’s captivating historical novel—a New York Times Notable Book.When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a Chinese labor camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to escort “the ugliest woman he could imagine” away. Far away. But Chin soon becomes the follower.In the first of many such instances, they are separated, both resurfa...

Loosely based in historical fact, Sister Noon is a wryly funny, playfully mysterious, and totally subversive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club.Lizzie Hayes, a member of the San Francisco elite, is a seemingly docile, middle-aged spinster praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies Relief and Protection Society Home, or "The Brown Ark". All she needs is the spark that will liberate her from th...