The Red PonyYoung Jody Tiflin lives on his father's California ranch. He is thrilled when his father gives him a red pony, and later promises him the colt of a bay mare. Both these gifts bring joy to Jodi's life but tragedy soon follows. As Jodi begins to learn the harsh lessons of life and death, he starts to understand what growing up and becoming an adult really means.

presumed dead

Compulsive and thoroughly convincing

As a forensic anthropologist for the state

the round eyed eighteen-year-old from Malawi

the original angry young novel

Eliot delivered at Harvard in November 1950

Part diary

Most villa owners have escaped the island but a few young socialites remain

'Properly immersive

Whether she is writing about George Eliot or Sylvia Plath

irresistible romance and dark academia

and his role as an influence and mentor for a younger generation of writers