Zoë Heller

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal ("A deliciously perverse, laugh-out-loud-funny novel." —Vogue) is a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench
Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary life until Sheba Hart, the new art teacher at St. George's, befriends her. But even as their relationship develops, so too does another: Sheba

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This acidly funny first novel takes readers on a romp through modern culture--Hollywood hangers-on and the people who love them, the drug-addicted and the abstemious, the credulous, the knowing, and the too tired to care--counterpointed with a deeply affecting story of a young girl losing her way in the world.

"Including twenty-eight works of short fiction in all, Shirley Hazzard's Collected Stories is a work of staggering breadth and talent. Taken together, Hazzard's short stories are masterworks in telescoping focus, "at once surgical and symphonic" (The New Yorker), ranging from quotidian struggles between beauty and pragmatism to satirical sendups of international bureaucracy, from the Italian countryside to suburban Connecticut."--Provided by publisher....

Mrs. Brown: Queen Victoria was the world's most powerful woman. Rugged Scotsman John Brown was a lowly servant who looked after her horses. Yet circumstances brought them together. The result was a passionate friendship that scandalized a nation! Victoria & Abdul: "The extraordinary true story of an unexpected friendship in the later years of Queen Victoria's remarkable rule. When Abdul Karim, a young clerk, travels from India to participate in the...