In the Margins
£12.99A delightful collection of original essays by Elena Ferrante as she reflects on the “adventure of writing”-her own and others’.
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A delightful collection of original essays by Elena Ferrante as she reflects on the “adventure of writing”-her own and others’.

LONGLISTED: WOMENS’ PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022SHORTLISTED: THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDA novel of devastating beauty set in Buchenwald during the Second World War.

“[Francis] is just so good at the transcription and transformation of everyday ordinary life, all seen from sideways on, so that everything becomes so strange and so funny.”-Tessa Hadley

The true story of an incredible journey and the master-apprentice relationship. Moving and inspiring.

18M copies of Elena Ferrante’s books sold worldwide
NOW A MAJOR FILM BY MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL, STARRING OLIVIA COLMAN
A compelling and perceptive meditation on womanhood and motherhood, exploring the
conflicting emotions that tie us to our children.



Six days ago, Dorothy had a miscarriage. At the novel’s opening, she is examining the ‘thick, curdled knots of string’ that are still coming out of her body. Her doctor had told her that the bleeding would stop in a few days, but it hasn’t. She considers the miscarriage as ‘less than a trauma and more than an inconvenience’. Like everything that happens to Dorothy, she observes the events of her life with detached interest.

The dazzling finale of the international bestselling series: The Mirror Visitor

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2020

Giovanna’s pretty face has changed: it’s turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find herself and save herself? She is searching for a new face in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and the Naples of the depths, which professes to be a place of excess and vulgarity. She moves between these two cities, disoriented by the fact that, whether high or low, the city seems to offer no answer and no escape.

18M copies of Elena Ferrante’s books sold worldwide
The story of one woman’s headlong descent into what she calls an “absence of sense” after being abandoned by her husband.
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