A novel (Tatting, 1957) in which a just-married young couple go to Cornwall where the inhabitants are definitely odd, and a group of short stories about the complexities of love and sex (Man... read more
Powerful debut novel set in a coastal Irish town, where women must navigate their emotional lives among hard, manipulative men. Fine characterisation and atmosphere.
We will be very sorry to see Handheld Press go - this, their penultimate publication, celebrates Nesbit's eye for the domestic uncanny in Edwardian England.
A quiet and thoughtful novel about a girl growing up on an island off the Welsh coast before WW2, whose horizons are altered by the arrival of two ethnographers.
A dizzying tale of social collapse, generational impasse and mid-life crisis; a Bonfire of the Vanities set in London. Brilliantly observed, lean, slick, clever and gripping.