Rosemary Tonks

Finally back in print, a shockingly wry and funny coming-of-age novel from the inimitable Rosemary Tonks, author of The Bloater. Brilliantly funny and brutal, this is the story of one woman's escape from the clutches of polite society, by the incredible mid-century writer who destroyed her own books. 'No matter her insistence that she just dashed them off to make...

Businessmen as Lovers by Rosemary Tonks is a charming, funny, and sun-soaked novel by the author of The Bloater. Fun, witty, and sun-soaked—literary cartwheels and seaside capers from the astoundingly brilliant mid-century writer who destroyed her own books. Great friends, Mimi and Caroline, are off on holiday to a beautiful Italian island. There they find themselves part of an eccentric...

Another outstandingly wry and funny novel from the inimitable Rosemary Tonks, author of The Bloater. Gut-wrenching, ingenious, absolutely hilarious, this is the rediscovered story of a woman's desperate quest for freedom. 'I'm thirty, and I'm stuck' Arabella is on an increasingly desperate quest for freedom from her overbearing father and her conspicuously absent brother. But her desire for self-actualisation only...

A sparklingly ironic comedy of manners set in 60s London. A rediscovered classic by 'the Poet Who Disappeared'. With a new introduction by Stewart Lee 'Should The Bloater be republished? Oh God, absolutely, it's fantastic.' - Stewart Lee Min works at the BBC as an audio engineer, where she is struggling to replicate the sound of a heartbeat. At home,...