... and ambitious, she's also the daughter-in-law of the late great painter Jacques Liebovitz. Soon Marlene sets in motion a chain ... --or the ruin--of them all. Author: Peter Carey. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & ...
A MODERN MASTER'S WRY AND ENTERTAINING TAKE ON HISTORY'S BEST-KNOWN LOVER In "Don Juan," Peter Handke offers his take on the famous seducer. Don Juan's story--"his own version"--is filtered through the consciousness of ...
... -perfect voice, "The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein" is sure to become a classic of the twenty-first century. Author: Peter Ackroyd. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction Contemporary Literature
... The Fall of Troy," acclaimed novelist and historian Peter Ackroyd creates a fascinating narrative that follows an ... to fit a passionately held belief. Author: Peter Ackroyd. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern ...
... Hardy obeys the strict rules for the restoration of his health - but in pursuing the truth and the malefactors, he makes his own rules. Author: Peter Corris. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction
... called the Death Star - and the fate of both the Empire and the New Republic. Author: Peter Schweighofer. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera Contemporary Literature
... to try writing: 'I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.' In 1964 he completed his first book, Last Exit to Brooklyn , which has since become a cult classic. In 1966, it was the subject of an obscenity trial in ...
... when so much else has been lost. But can they offer her redemption in her last days? Poetic, poignant, and at times bitingly funny, The Last Days of Ava Langdon takes us into the mind of a true maverick. About the ...
... in 1947.He made the acquaintance of G. K. Chesterton while at school and they remained lifelong friends. Later in their lives, both also were destined to be President of the Detection Club. Bentley contributed to the ...
... rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. When ... as he is charming, and embarks on one last project: to determine the identity of the documents' ...
... after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at art school and being brought back to once quaint, now tourist-overrun Waytansea Island, she's been ...
... an apparent victim of the Second World War. But when he stumbles upon a few pages from a long-lost novel, Peter embarks on a quest that leads him across Europe to the United States, chasing fragments of a story within a ...
... on a trolley. The kids call him Pop Eye. But there is no one else to teach them their lessons. Mr Watts begins to read aloud to the class from his battered copy of Great Expectations, a book by his friend Mr Dickens ...
... off the French coast for the D-day invasion, and later at the island of Welcheren. After the war he returned ... teaching in 1961.Lord of the Flies was filmed by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding listed his hobbies as music, ...
... Berlin family, spanning generations and two world wars Peter and Paul, the two sons of German businessman ... and their differing ideals - only to meet again years later at the Nuremberg trials. An epic prelude to the Bernard ...
Charles Dickens's last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend is a glorious satire spanning all levels of Victorian ... of the city. He was created by London' Peter Ackroyd Author: Charles Dickens. Format: Paperback Fiction ...
... screenwriter has come to a humiliating end; so has his latest marriage. Returning to New York, where he grew up, ... all his own, the failure of modern love. The last scene is the starkest of all. About the Author Alfred ...
... novelist of the 20th century. He lived much of his later life as a reclusive semi-invalid in a sound-proofed ... , also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this ...
... s couch in New York City, confronting her longstanding compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the ... ***Jennifer Egan's latest novel THE CANDY HOUSE ...
... reading' Literary Review 'A meditation on the nature of death, desire and decay ... a remarkable debut' Peter Ackroyd, The New York Times Book Review 'Unlike anything else one has read. A phenomenon ... Everyone seems ...
The latest unforgettable novel from bestselling author Maggie O'Farrell. A gorgeously written story of love and motherhood, this is a tour de force from one of our best loved novelists. When the sophisticated Innes Kent ...
... at Brasenose College, Oxford. His first novel, Lord of the Flies , was published in 1954 and was filmed by Peter Brook in 1963. He won the Booker Prize for his novel Rites of Passage in 1980, and was awarded the Nobel ...
... many literary prizes in other countries. Her work has been translated into thirty-three languages. Her latest novel, The Blind Assassin won the 2000 Booker Prize. Author: Margaret Atwood. Format: Paperback Fiction Books ...
... of the Year "Suffused with humane depth, funny, affecting, deftly plotted . . . a novel of magnificent accomplishment" Peter Kemp, Sunday Times , Novel of the Year " Brooklyn moved me more than any other book this year ...
... ’s dictatorship; of a Daylight Savings switchover gone horribly wrong. Ana also introduces him to her latest artistic endeavor. Following the astronomical rather than the Gregorian calendar, she is trying to alter her ...
... a savage humour and rich, elaborate verbal textures. Filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962 starring James Mason and Peter Sellers, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne starring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith, Lolita has lost ...
... ? There is no answer except: Helen Garner is a great writer; The Spare Room is a great book.' - Peter Carey 'The Spare Room : Garner's first novel in fifteen years, a lean claustrophobic drama about a cancer sufferer ...
Urban bestseller Anna J and Honey bring the heat in this latest juicy installment of the Full Figured Series. "Other Women's Husbands" by Anna J- Nobody wants a bone but a dog. That's been Zaria's motto for as long as ...
... Kitchen , people the world over have been finding and falling in love with Banana Yoshimoto. In her latest book to be translated to English, the beautifully understated Yoshie sets herself up in Tokyo's Shimokitazawa ...
Award-winning author Steven Lang's latest novel, Hinterland, expertly explores small town politics and the way in which love and desire, ambition and other entanglements complicate life. He tells the story of Winderran, ...
... with readers through his books, Weber is finding new talent for his own publishing company, Urban Books. His latest venture is Urban Books Media, a production company that is turning several of his novels into films. The ...
Winner of the Booker Prize. Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by ...
... years that we were friends almost made me stop writing for ever. Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and unable to begin writing her next book, Delphine meets L. L. is the kind of impeccable ...
... and forgotten. That dreamlike week of revelations forms the basis for the novel Moonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession ...
... illness. 'The clear-eyed grace of her prose' in this darkly funny and unsparing novel has been hailed by Peter Carey as 'the work of a great writer.' Garlanded with awards, dazzling reviewers around the globe, The Spare ...
... his destiny to the most inhospitable corners of the planet . . . and beyond. "Anathem" is the latest miraculous invention by the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Cryptonomicon" and "The Baroque Cycle"--a work of ...
... Jr. is the author of the award-winning novels Monster, Wounded, Love and Happiness, Daddy's Girl, and his latest novel, Black and White. He is an active performer of spoken word poetry. Ben uses his love of writing to ...
From his triumphant debut with "Snow Crash" to the stunning success of his latest novel, "Quicksilver, " Neal Stephenson has quickly become the voice of a generation. In this now-classic thriller, he and fellow author J. ...
... Jr. is the author of the award-winning novels Monster, Wounded, Love and Happiness, Daddy's Girl, and his latest novel, Black and White. He is an active performer of spoken word poetry. Ben uses his love of writing to ...
... now is riding around in his expensive cars, wearing the best jewelry money can buy and staying dipped in the latest fashions, while lying back in his beautiful crib. Whitney left Koran, the love of her life, so long ago ...
... the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic The Daughters of the Late Colonel , and the short, sharp sketch Miss Brill , in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of ...
... leaving her subject to breakdowns for the rest of her life. Her father died in 1904 and two years later her favourite brother Thoby died suddenly of typhoid. With her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, she was drawn into ...
... , a fearless satirist, a genius in full."-- People The setting is Atlanta, Georgia--a racially mixed, late-twentieth-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a ...
... writers of the twentieth century. During the Second World War Steinbeck served as a war correspondent, his journalism later collected in Once There Was a War (1958), and he was awarded the Norwegian Cross of Freedom for ...
... gathering pessimism since 9/11, and a fear that his city and his happy family life are under threat. Later, Perowne makes his way to his weekly squash game through London streets filled with hundreds of thousands of anti ...
... They returned to Europe in 1925, settling in Italy again, where he finished Lady Chatterley's Lover . This, his last novel, was published in 1928, but did not appear in its complete form in England and America for thirty ...
... life for more than a half-century. He published his final original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980. Salinger was raised in Manhattan and began writing short stories while in secondary school. Several ...
... life for more than a half-century. He published his final original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980. Salinger was raised in Manhattan and began writing short stories while in secondary school. Several ...
... publication, Play it as it Lays remains a profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking. Author: Joan Didion ...
... , 5 stars ' Unforgettable . This book was completely and utterly dynamic . From the first word to the last I was enthralled with Sarah and Handful. So powerful ' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars Author: Sue Monk Kidd. Format ...
... the space it occupies. A stranger greets you and invites you inside. At first, you won't want to leave. Later, you'll find that you can't. This unnerving, taut and intricately woven tale by one of our most original and ...
... works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence . In 2011 she presented Australia's prestigious Boyer Lectures, later published as The Idea of Home . In 2016 she was appointed Officer in the Order of Australia for ...
... , poetry and reflections on his life in writing. With Waterland he won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and with Last Orders the Booker Prize. Both novels have since been made into films. Graham Swift's work has appeared in ...
... loss. Filled with tenderness, humour and endless surprises, it takes the reader on a road trip through Portugal in the last century - and through the human soul. About the Author Yann Martel is the author of Life of Pi , ...
... novels in the series, Mother's Milk and At Last . About the Author Edward St Aubyn was born in ... , Mother's Milk (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006) and At Last . He is also the author of the novels A Clue to the ...
... his first and only true love. Then, fifty-one years, nine months and four days later, Fermina's husband dies unexpectedly. At last Florentino has another chance to declare his feelings and discover if a passion that has ...
... her best friend Michael - both within a week. The whole town talked about it then, and now, nearly forty years later, they're talking about it again. Everyone is waiting - for the girl to be found and the summer rain to ...
... Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On is a playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of late-nineties Hong Kong. First published in 1999, it comprises ninety-nine sketches of life just after the handover ...
... Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On is a playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of late-nineties Hong Kong. First published in 1999, it comprises ninety-nine sketches of life just after the handover ...
... , Fiction, 2000 This will be a book for the world's last reader, she decided, chewing pen-end over an open exercise book. ... and It's Raining in Mango (1987). Her last novel was Drylands (1999), her fourth Miles Franklin ...
... past in Ella Scott's case! Checking into her boutique hotel for a weekend of Christmas shopping, the last person Ella expects to bump into at reception is Tom bloody Henley - ambitious doctor, highly eligible bachelor ...
... changes over the course of the novel. If this trip 'formed' him, how does the 'revision' of the trip later in the nove Describe Jack's mother, Alice Stronach, and discuss her heartache and human failings. Did you feel ...
... as one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and prolific writers. Less formally experimental than her later novels, The Voyage Out none-theless clearly lays bare the poetic style and innovative technique--with its ...
... suburbs. In 1982 she won a scholarship to the journalism master's program at Columbia University in New York. Later she worked for the WALL STREET JOURNAL, where she covered crises in the Middle East, Africa and the ...
... than anything, stronger even than the dark secret they have to bear. Strong enough, it seems, to last a lifetime--until, decades later, as the girls become women, Sula's anarchy leads to a betrayal that may be beyond ...
... novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland's greatest novelists. John McGahern's last novel vividly brings to life a whole world and its people with insight and humour and deep sympathy. Joe and Kate Ruttledge have come ...
... became an analytical scientist and then went into technical sales, where she met her husband. A few years later, they moved from Hampshire to Spain. She now writes her novels in sunnier climates with the company of her ...
... spirited heroine Emma Watson finds her marriage opportunities restricted by poverty and pride. Written in the last months of Austen's life, the uncompleted novel Sanditon is set in a newly established seaside resort ...
... , and a distinguished philosopher, she was published by Chatto from her first novel, UNDER THE NET in 1954 to her last, JACKSON'S DILEMMA in 1995. Awarded the CBE in 1976, Iris Murdoch was made a DBE in the 1987 New ...
... . Coming to England aged 16, she drifted into various jobs before starting to write in Paris in the late '20s. After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie was written in 1930. Her early novels, often portraying women as underdogs out ...
... but Dublin was at heart of his greatest works, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake . He lived in poverty until the last ten years of his life and was plagued by near blindness and the grief of his daughter's mental illness ...
... Be Good News? and Started Early, Took My Dog, became a BBC television series starring Jason Isaacs. Jackson Brodie later returned in the novel Big Sky. Kate Atkinson was awarded an MBE in 2011 and is a Fellow of the ...
... writers of the twentieth century. During the Second World War Steinbeck served as a war correspondent, his journalism later collected in Once There Was a War (1958), and he was awarded the Norwegian Cross of Freedom for ...
... . Kerwin has given up everything but drinking, thinking and fishing, but the arrival of the boy Simon, and later on, of his Maori foster-father Joe, drags them all into the gyre of possibilities. Cruel, funny, ardent ...
... Daily Telegraph On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before ...
... 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames' life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. 'It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual intensity that is seems ...
... . Rohinton Mistry was born in 1952 and grew up in Bombay, India, where he also attended university. He later emigrated to Canada, where he began a course in English and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is ...
... York Times 'Camus is the accused, his own prosecutor and advocate. The Fall might have been called "The Last Judgement" ' Olivier Todd Author: Albert Camus. Format: Paperback Non-Fiction Books Literature, Poetry & Plays ...
Sarah Water's wonderfully lush, sensuous and bawdy debut novel set in the music halls of the late 19th century - reissued with a stunning new jacket Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy ...
... is outspoken, unconventional, and repeatedly embarrasses them in polite society. Something will have to be done. Years later, a young woman named Iris Lockhart receives a letter informing her that she has a great-aunt in ...
... step further. Like a set of Russian dolls each thread of the narrative reveals itself to be related to the last. Her Dickensian cast of characters are all looking for love or money and find it in surprising places. As ...
... ), Under Western Eyes (1911), Chance (1913), and Victory (1915). In 1896 he married Jessie George and they later had two sons. Conrad died on August 3, 1924. Author: Joseph Conrad. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern ...
... to the Usage Panel for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. He died in 2008. His last novel, The Pale King, was published in 2011. Author: David Foster Wallace. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern ...
... glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician has plans to rehearse with his jazz band all night, Mari is equally unconcerned and content ...
... the 'Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. The Moor's Last Sigh won the Whitbread Prize in 1995, and the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature in 1996. He is a ...
... studied history in Munich and was a writer for television before he wrote Perfume . His second novel, The Pidgeon , later adapted as a play, was first staged at teh BAC Theater in London in May 1993. His play The Double ...
... are at the same time simple and profound, relentlessly gripping and deeply moving. When paramedic Bruce Pike arrives too late to save a boy found hanged in his bedroom he senses immediately that this lonely death is an ...
... Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922. He studied at the universities of Chicago and Tennessee and later began to write short stories for magazines. His first novel, Player Piano , was published in 1951 and ...
... the Winifred Holtby Prize in 1982, A Pale View of the Hills is still haunting readers decades later. Author: Kazuo Ishiguro. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction Action & Adventure War, Combat & ...
... lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ...
... and the Damned , Tender is the Night and The Great Gatsby . An unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon , was published posthumously. Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction ...
... before heading off again to the next destination and another family - sometimes returning to say hello years later. While visiting Australia, Louis de Bernieres heard the legend of Red Dog and decided to do some research ...
... World War. Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late 20th century. The Alexandria Quartet is unquestionably his most admired work, at heart a sensuous and brilliant ...
... at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel ...
... America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a blogger. But ...
... you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments ...
... illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt, but instead she is met by his sharp-tongued sister, Marin. Only later does Johannes appear and present her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their ...
... a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the same again. Twenty years later Kirsten, an actress in the Travelling Symphony, performs Shakespeare in the settlements that have grown up since ...
... it. Drake is a young soldier left reeling by the Second World War. When his promise to fulfil a dying man's last wish sees him wash up in Marvellous' creek, broken in body and spirit, the old woman comes to his aid. A ...
... , with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one ...