Books

In 1990s rural India, two brave women fight to escape society's oppressive gender roles.

In this passage from Barbara Mutch's new novel, The Housemaid's Daughter, which begins in 1920s South Africa, the innocent young Ada struggles to understand where she belongs in Cradock House.

Pythias, beloved daughter of philosopher Aristotle, is unlike any girl in ancient Greece.

Australian writer Kate Morton, who burst onto the bestseller scene with The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden and The Distant Hours, took time out of her busy book tour for her latest book, The Secret Keeper, to answer our Proust-style questionnaire.

What begins as an unofficial book club while Will Schwalbe accompanies his mother, Mary Anne, to her cancer treatments soon...