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  • French Cooking for One

    by Michele Roberts ...
    A unique work of literary and culinary joie de vivre, part food memoir, part recipe book, French Cooking for One is a personal and quirky take on Edouard de Pomiane's classic. With over 160 recipes, including a majority of vegetarian ones, with piquant storytelling and feminist wit, this is a working cook's book with French flair, bursting with life. French cuisine, classic though it is, still ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • French Cooking for Two

    Seasons of Friendship

    by Michele Roberts ...
    Friendship has its own distinctive seasons, constantly changing and evolving, just as the years revolve. Cooking for a friend, you can show your affection in a direct, practical way. Composing a menu to suit or intrigue a particular beloved person, you are demonstrating how well you understand and appreciate them. This book is divided into three overlapping seasons, following the 1929 classic La ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Colette

    My Literary Mother

    by Michèle Roberts ...
    Series series My Reading
    The power of Colette's work comes from its modernist storytelling. Colette was a pioneering, ground-breaking modernist writer, but has not always had her originality and worth recognized in Britain. Her work provocatively uses unstable narratives, gaps, silences, fairytale, mythical tropes, and sensual evocations of childhood, sex, and landscapes. In this book, Michèle Roberts examines how ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Ignorance

    A Novel

    by Michèle Roberts ...
    In every war there are stories that do not surface. You can try to forget, but sometimes the past can return: in the scent of a bar of soap, in whispers darting through a village after mass, in the color of an undelivered letter.Jeanne Nerin and Marie-Angèle Baudry grow up side by side in the Catholic village of Ste. Madeleine, but their worlds could not be more different. Marie-Angèle is the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Advances in Psychological Science, Volume 2

    Biological and Cognitive Aspects

    Edited by Fergus Craik, Michele Robert, Michel Sabourin ...
    The chapters in this volume are the edited versions of invited addresses to the XXVI International Congress of Psychology held in Montréal in August 1996. As one major goal of the Congress was to promote communication among specializations in scientific psychology, the speakers were asked to survey their research area and present their own work in a way that would be accessible to their colleagues ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Walworth Beauty

    by Michèle Roberts ...
    From the Booker-shortlisted author comes a sensuous, evocative novel exploring the lives of women in Victorian London, for fans of Sarah Waters, Emma Donoghue and Kate Atkinson2011: When Madeleine loses her job as a lecturer, she decides to leave her riverside flat in cobbled Stew Lane, where history never feels far away, and move to Apricot Place. Yet here too, in this quiet Walworth cul-de-sac, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Mistressclass

    A Novel

    by Michèle Roberts ...
    A painter's death sets into motion a story of desire--past and present--and its enduring repercussionsCatherine and Vinny are sisters and writers living in contemporary London. Catherine, a professor, publishes erotic novels under an assumed name, keeping her acclaimed novelist husband, Adam, in the dark. When not writing her poetry, Vinny wanders the streets of the city marking the houses of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Looking Glass

    A Novel

    by Michèle Roberts ...
    A lushly imagined, sensual novel about memory, desire, and the power of storytelling, from a Booker Prize nominee.Geneviève is an outsider, raised in an orphanage, now living an isolated existence as a maid to the widowed Madame Patin in a small French village. A teller and collector of stories, she is entranced by Madame Patin's oft-told folktales, which mask cunning and doom beneath beauty. As ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Fair Exchange

    A Novel

    by Michéle Roberts ...
    In the early 1800s in a small village in rural France, a peasant woman named Louise summons her priest. Fearing she is about to die, Louise begins her final confession to the bored cleric and reveals a lifelong secret involving a famous woman writer, a young English poet, and a wicked and unusual crime. Inspired by the lives and loves of the eighteenth-century pioneer of women's rights, Mary ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Daughters of the House

    A Novel

    by Michèle Roberts ...
    A Booker Prize Finalist, Daughters of the House is Michèle Roberts' acclaimed novel of secrets and lies revealed in the aftermath of World War II. Thérèse and Léonie, French and English cousins of the same age, grow up together in Normandy. Intrigued by parents' and servants' guilty silences and the broken shrine they find in the woods, the girls weave their own elaborate fantasies, unwittingly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Cut Out

    by Michèle Roberts ...
    Narrated by Jess Nesling, Mark Meadows ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 41 min

    Denis is searching for his mother’s past, knowing she had secrets. In Nice, he finds her friends, Monique and Clemence. In the 1950s, they were Matisse’s assistants when he was old and ill, pinning up his coloured paper shapes, putting the great cut out works together. Monique inspired his great designs in the chapel at Vence, Clemence, in pursuit of love, was caught in an affair that led to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Negative Capability: A Diary of Surviving

    A Diary of Surviving

    by Michele Roberts ...
    Narrated by Rachel Atkins ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 43 min

    Yesterday ended in disaster. Very late at night, I decided to write down everything that had happened; the only way I could think of coping. So here goes.So begins Michele Roberts’s intimate and honest account of the year after her latest novel has been rejected by her then publisher. Written with warmth and sensitivity, she navigates the difficult road from depression and anxiety to acceptance ... Read more

    $16.76 USD or Free with Kobo Plus