... its trail, she is introduced to William Ransome, Aldwinter's vicar, who is also deeply suspicious of the rumours, ... many different shapes it can take. About the Author Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979. She has a PhD ...
... than one million copies in Italy alone. What Hell Is Not is his third novel. Author: Alessandro D'Avenia. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction Fiction in Translation and Short Stories Fiction in ...
The Children of Men is P.D. James's stand-alone dystopian novel of mass infertility and chilling mystery. The year is ... future of mankind. About the Author P. D. James was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime ...
Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man , and For Esme-With Love and Squalor , will not be surprised by the fact ...
Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man , and For Esme-With Love and Squalor , will not be surprised by the fact ...
... DI Edina Ogborne, the newest recruit of Canterbury Police. But Ed's already got her hands full with a team who don't want ... has time already run out? About the Author G.D. Sanders has previously worked in academia. He is ...
These three novellas display D. H. Lawrence's brilliant and insightful evocation of human relationships - both tender ... more life ... a heroic and immeasurable gift.' Lawrence's life may have been short, but he lived it ...
... when another young woman survives a similar attack, she's convinced the two incidents are connected. But the new ... of Angela Marsons's Child's Play and Helen H. Durrant's Dead Guilty . About the Author G.D. Sanders has ...
... of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husband's gamekeeper and embarks on a passionate affair that brings new life to her ... depiction of adult relationships. Author: D. H. Lawrence. Format: Paperback ...
... their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husband's gamekeeper and embarks on a passionate affair that brings new life to ... depiction of adult relationships. Author: D. H. Lawrence. Format: Hardcover Fiction ...
... can't catch a break in any of their outstanding cases. Landsman's new supervisor is the love of his life-and also his worst ... powerful forces of faith, obsession, hopefulness, evil, and salvation that are his heritage-and ...
... her the game. Soon, though, she begins to see the evil in him take root, and his love turns to brutal blows. ... gone, his spot is up for grabs, and Anissa knows she's the only one who can step into it. The girls trust her ...
... over a decade, his classic White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief is now repackaged and reissued in trade ... a fortune-teller to tell him that sooner or later he'd end up in a system more brutal than the one that forced ...
... a middle-aged divinity professor, Roger Lambert, who'd just as soon leave faith a mystery. Soon the ... computer hacker begins an affair with professor Lambert's wife - and Roger finds himself experiencing deep longings ...
... shy, proper Polish refugee who becomes her prized recruit--and the object of feelings she thought she'd put away forever. Does La's orchestra save the world? The people who come to hear it think so. But what will become ...
Evils both above and below ground arise once again, threatening the world and all its inhabitants with ... creatures and save humanity . . . About the Author James S. Murray is a writer, executive producer, and actor, best ...
... back to where it all began with the dystopian novel behind the award-winning TV series. ' The Handmaid's Tale changed me profoundly, hopefully for the better' Lee Child, Guardian I believe in the resistance as I believe ...
... Lydia Davis in Penguin Classics. The Way by Swann's is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting ... . It contains the separate short novel, A Love of Swann's , a study of sexual jealousy that forms a crucial part of ...
... top down to Las Vegas…’ As knights of old buckled on armour of supernatural power, so Hunter S. Thompson enters Las Vegas armed with a veritable arsenal of ‘heinous chemicals’. His perilous, drug-enhanced confrontations ...
... him from his old life and overturn everything he thinks he knows. The Outsiders was an audacious debut written when S. E. Hinton was only seventeen, laying bare the hopes and terrors between teenage bravado in a world of ...
... , and four works of non-fiction, and the co-editor of The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. In 1993 Midnight's Children was judged to be the 'Booker of Bookers', the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first ...
... and since then he has written many novels, among them: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Mother Night (1961), Cat's Cradle (1963), God Bless You Mr Rosewater (1964), Welcome to the Monkey House ; a collection of short stories ...
... out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful vision ...
... a better life. Cyril Avery is not a real Avery, or so his parents are constantly reminding him. Adopted as a baby, he's never quite felt at home with the family that treats him more as a curious pet than a son. But it is ...
... on, remembering the early days of telling life stories and laughter and singing - and when the kids were everyone's kids. But now the bitterness has crept in and their friendship is broken. Ruth is ready to move on - ...
... family obsessed with their own history. But Edna Cranmer was not a privileged housewife with a paintbrush. Edna's work spans decades. Her soaring images of red dirt, close interiors and distant jungles have the potential ...
... beginning to flare. Into this volatile mix walks Evan Hughes, a young American fashion designer. On her deathbed, Evan's grandmother told her to find Emma Harte. But Emma has been dead for thirty years; and Evan bears an ...
... Novels That Shaped Our World' Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel , which established him as one of the ... are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David's fianc e returns and, denying his true nature, he ...
... each into the alien world of the other. As Bethia's father feels called to convert the Wampanoag to his own ... her silence, Bethia becomes entangled in Caleb's struggle to navigate the intellectual and cultural shoals ...
... t deny who he is and what he is destined to be. The hot-tempered young man is indeed his father's son. While off his meds, Kalif discovers the circumstances surrounding the brutal murder of his birth parents. In a matter ...
... agreeing to a Faustian pact: Mr Rinyo-Clacton will give Jonathan one million pounds, if he agrees to die in a year's time. Can Jonathan go on living like this? Can he go on living at all? A wry, affectionate look at what ...
... the author, and The History of the Adventures of Vivi and Vera (2018). About the Translators Bonnie S. McDougall is honorary professor of Chinese at the University of Sydney and has translated works by writers including ...
... the author, and The History of the Adventures of Vivi and Vera (2018). About the Translators Bonnie S. McDougall is honorary professor of Chinese at the University of Sydney and has translated works by writers including ...
... as they line up the pieces in a political game: a game destined to lead to disaster. When Prue's father employs a British pilot, William Harrington, to take aerial photographs of the city, Prue is uncomfortably aware of ...
... an unknown planet and jealousy over astronomer William Herschel's discovery of Uranus had driven him to madness. ... but above all, astronomy-- The Blind Astronomer's Daughter encapsulates the quest for knowledge and for ...
... , Jess and Josh end up working together in the same investment bank. As they lunch, spar and pick each other's brains, Jess begins to see Josh in a different light, and it seems their connection might be deeper than Jess ...
... he offers her a place to stay. Happy at last, Jenny begins a new life with him, but when tragedy strikes, she's left to pick up the pieces of both her broken home - and her broken heart. Bereft Desperately trying to make ...
... time he proves himself to be civilised, humorous - and a consummate musician. When Pelagia, the local doctor's daughter, finds her letters to her fiance go unanswered, Antonio and Pelagia draw close and the working of ...
... prostitute Som Som has made the ultimatesacrifice; literally sworn to secrecy by cosmetic surgery, the two halves of SomSom's brain have been severed, leaving her able to hear and see... but not speakor act. Now Som Som ...
... the first time in its entirety - including his original story, THE COURTYARD, which chronicled Aldo Sax's tragic encounter with the (somewhat) mortal agents of the Old Ones! Author: Alan Moore. Format: Paperback Fiction ...
... . But when Tommy is struck down by illness, Sarah's new life collapses. Lost in grief, she turns to ... the wings is George - kind, but brutally scarred, Sarah's never seen him as anything more than a friend. But could ...
... and Popo, an African-American astronomer and professor whose solid, comforting presence helps calm the turbulence of Maya's adolescence. When Popo dies of cancer, Maya comes undone and turns to drugs, alcohol, and petty ...
... a runner and enforcer for Blanket-not to mention he's from the wrong side of the tracks to have his sights ... Filled with sex, lies, love, and lust, Brick and Storm s works are sure to keep you gamed. Their hit stories, " ...
... a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that ... starring Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest ...
... edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights," A. S. Byatt writes some of the most engaging and skillful novels of ... ." Possession , for which Byatt won England's prestigious Booker Prize, was praised by critics ...
... ! Life is rejection and pain and loss...' A Fan's Notes - the horrible and hilarious account of a long failure ... go very wrong for him - he drinks too much, he's impotent and the Giants start to loose. And so we follow his ...
... now, hunting for knowledge and despondent over the inadequacies of his civilization. With his trusted companions—Mara's daughter, his hope for the future; the abandoned child-soldier Griot, who discovers the meaning of ...
... bed. Let everybody else suffer."--Jeffrey Eugenides, from the introduction to "My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead" All proceeds from "My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead" will go directly to fund the free youth writing programs ...
... a new and convivial civilisation. About the Author Louis de Bernières is the best-selling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin , which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are The ...
... same for men. Larry Weller, born in 1950, is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator's perception, irony, and tenderness. Larry's Party gives us, as it were, a CAT scan of his life, in episodes between 1977 and ...
... a single father with a challenging past teach his daughter to become a strong, successful woman? Will a daddy's girl, raised primarily by her father, leave Lynn destined to fail from a lack of female guidance? About the ...
... epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology ...
... in reaction to what Bentley perceived as the sterility and artificiality of the detective fiction of his day, Trent's Last Case features Philip Trent, an all-too-human detective who not only falls in love with the chief ...
... the Author JOHN FOWLES was born in 1926. His books include THE COLLECTOR, THE ARISTOS, THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN, THE EBONY; TOWER, DANIEL MARTIN, MANTISSA, A MAGGOT, and WORMHOLES. He died in Lyme Regis in November ...
... , and The Hate U Give , now a major motion picture. This collection contains paperback editions of Angie's powerful and gripping novels about justice, freedom of speech and fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are ...
... city, as she meets her fate. One of six novels to be nominated for a 'Lost Man Booker Prize', The Driver's Seat was adapted into a 1974 film, Identikit , starring Elizabeth Taylor. Muriel Spark (1918 - 2006) wrote poetry ...
... text- the statement of a man writing for his life, a venting, a bloodletting.' Bloomsbury Review Author: William S. Burroughs. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary Fiction Penguin Modern Classics
... literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man's search for fact. Here is the story of Phineas ... A tantalizing yarn of detection and desire, The Biographer's Tale is a provocative look at "truth" in biography ...
... as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and more recent works, like "The Names" (which is also ...
... in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. As A.S. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful combination of erudition ... collection each display different facets of Byatt's remarkable gift for enchantment. They range from ...
... as The Killing Season unfolds in cold and bloody fashion.With LIL BOY in their corner, the BOSS MAN'S DAUGHTERS unleash their vengeance on all enemies, real and suspected. Meanwhile, the sisters must answer for past sins ...
... ever after. But in their convoluted world of deadly mischief, a happy ending will be hard to come by. ROYAL's treachery stands in the way of familial harmony, and this time the enemy the women face is one with their same ...
... on her door and the news of her husband's fatal crash. As Kathryn struggles through her grief, ... took for granted. Torn between her impulse to protect her husband's memory and her desire to know the truth, Kathryn sets ...
... can carry and how he can keep himself alive. There's just one person left in the world who understands him ... that only a dreamer or a fugitive would attempt. The Shepherd's Hut is a searing look at what it takes to keep ...
... about his little sister hooking up with his old partner in crime. Nasir has become a dangerous man, and he's dragging Denise down a dangerous path. However, Sincere is locked away upstate, unable to get to his sister. So ...
... , Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in that time and place, with a breakout voice that's nothing less than extraordinary. The Residue Years switches between the perspectives of a young man, Champ, and his mother ...
Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start ...
In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. This is the ...
'The last major event in the history of the novel' Italo Calvino One of the most dazzling and ingeniously contrived works of twentieth-century fiction, an entire microcosm brought to life in a Paris apartment block. ...
Who knows the true meaning of the word success? Rene Martin surely does. She is young, beautiful, talented, and dedicated to her two wonderful children and her husband, Jalen. A successful executive, she brings home a ...
The writer who revolutioniezd modern comic book storytelling, Alan Moore (Hugo-Award winning author of Watchmen ) provides his guide to crafting graphic stories. Perfect for Moore fans, creative writers of all media, and ...
One of the classic Alan Moore works is finally back in print with totallyre-mastered artwork and lettering. Adman Timothy Hole has everything going for him and has now been handed thebiggest assignment of his life, ...
Alan Moore, master and magician of storytelling, tears back the veil of one of the most arcane of enchantments - The Magic of Television! Part grimoire, part grim invocation of things that are all too ordinary, "Light of ...
... that rocks his world and drags up everything that he thought he'd left behind. Jay must break his vow never to work with MI5 ... for fans of Mick Herron's Jackson Lamb series and A.A. Dhand's D.I. Harry Virdee thrillers. ...
... attend the party on the understanding that she will perform half a dozen arias after dinner. The tycoon's engaging and sympathetic translator plays a vital role in the subsequent relationships between so many different ...
... , Crystelle goes back to her old neighborhood to reconnect with friends and family. There, with the help of Jimmie's mother, a woman who Crystelle loves like family -- and who makes a prison visit to the young man who ...
... and Islamic Civilizations at the American University in Cairo, and is the translator of Khairy Shalaby's The Hashish Waiter (AUC Press, 2011). Author: Mekkawi Said. Format: Paperback Fiction Books Modern & Contemporary ...
... as she turns her back on marriage and security. "A Proper Marriage" is the second novel in Doris Lessing' s classic Children of Violence series of novels, each a masterpiece on its own right, and, taken together, an ...
... . Against his better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. As he roots out the man's identity, what begins as a whimsical story becomes a "wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality" (The ...
... is the story of her journey back into reality. Highly readable, witty and disturbing, The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel and was originally published under a pseudonym in 1963. What it has to say about what women ...
... the most heralded writers of the past two decades is lyrical, funny, moving, and devastating; Lorrie Moore's most ambitious book to date--textured, beguiling, and wise. "From the Hardcover edition." Author: Lorrie Moore ...
The Sick Bag Song is an exploration of love, inspiration and memory shaped around the events of Cave's 2014 tour of North America. It began life scribbled on airline sick bags during the 22-city tour. It soon grew into a ...
... Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday. Winner ...
... Contemporary Fiction Kids & Children Text Books Secondary School Textbooks Penguin Modern Classics Contemporary Literature Premier's Reading Challenge VIC Premier's Reading Challenge Novels & Reading Books for Years 9-10
... of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison's virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, ... Modern & Contemporary Fiction Kids & Children Children's Non-Fiction Children & Teenage Fiction: True ...
... during these turbulent years. One is a young boy from a poor village who is employed at a university lecturer′s house. The other is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of ...
... 'An ingenious and totally absorbing fantasy' Daily Telegraph 'Witty, stylish and ferociously absorbing' Observer Patrick S skind was born near Munich, in 1949. He studied medieval and modern history at the University of ...
... 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 ghost of her baby, who died ...
... know what ‘nothing’ means, and keep on playing Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, hollowed-out actress Maria Wyeth’s life plays out in a numbing routine of perpetual freeway driving. In her early thirties, divorced from her ...
... sees 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 ...
... Communist Party, and she opposed B. A. Santamaria's attempts to stop communism in trade unions. The Dyehouse ... which dramatised unions' internal power struggles. Mena Calthorpe's third and final novel was The Plain of Ala ...
... Sally Piper's debut novel, Grace's Table (2014), was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Award-Emerging ... writers on the Queensland Writers Centre 'Writer's Surgery' program Author: Sally Piper. Format: ...
... of Sophie Stark , a breathtaking debut, brimming with youthful brio and irresistible humor, that chronicles a young man’s friendship with a most peculiar artist. On a rooftop in Brooklyn on a spring night, a young intern ...
... -winning author of The Blind Assassin and The Handmaid's Tale . Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as ... and weaving again as she waits for her husband's return. Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a ...
... the Duke of Ruin. To an undaunted wallflower, he's just the beast next door. Wealthy and ruthless, Gabriel ... spinster who defies his every attempt to resist. But now she's set her heart and mind on saving him Not if he ...
... Named a Booklist Best Book of the Year A mesmerizing, indelible coming-of-age story about a girl in Boston's tightly-knit Ethiopian community who falls under the spell of a charismatic hustler out to change the world The ...
... lives as a recluse in the Blue Mountains. Regarded by locals as a colourful eccentric, she dresses in men's clothes and fearlessly pursues her artistic path. All that matters to Ava is her writing. Words offer beauty and ...
... she'll take things too far. And when she falls for a married man who is part of Tokyo's illicit underworld, their relationship might finally force her hand. . . . Author: Dr Catherine Hanrahan. Format: Paperback Fiction ...
... who arrested him, and who is now her lover? Caterin's life is difficult and her environment challenging but she is a ... at the American Academy in Rome. Currently she's a contributor to La Repubblica. Author: Claudia ...
... -read man of her dreams. Enter Sunny, and one spontaneous kiss later, Frankie begins to fall for him. But there's just one problem - Frankie is strictly a classics kind of gal, and Sunny is really into Young Adult. Like ...