Glaciers unfolds internally, the action shaped by Isabel's sense of history, memory, and place, recalling the work of writers such as Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Virginia Woolf. For Isabel, the fleeting moments of one day can reveal an entire life.

Field began in 1981, when the poet wrote to her asking for advice on how to revive the moribund literary reputation of his friend, the late Alfred Chester. Chester had been one of Athill's clients at the publishing firm of Andre Deutsch and Athill,...

18 years old and catapulted to England from the West Indies after the death of her beloved father. Working as a chorus girl, Anna drifts into the demi-monde of Edwardian London. But there, dismayed by the unfamiliar cold and greyness, she is absolutely...

My latest book is Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the d’Urbervilles, which leaves out the fantasy but also does that thing of taking a minor character from someone else’s book and reimagining a famous story (in my case, famous stories) from their...

The book is by turns bildungsroman, sociological study, deconstruction, polemic, and live-streamed dialogue with Jean Rhys, Clarice Lispector, Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf, the Bible, Roland Barthes, and most of Western European modernism by way...

Sarah Hope Slean in Pickering, Ontario on June 21, 1977. Alter Ego Emily, abit of an alcoholic depressive most at home in the alleys of Paris. Slean was reading Good Morning Midnight by Jean Rhys and felt like she knew the character. "On stage...