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The author wrote this work when he was suffering from tuberculosis. Addressed to the reader, it is a hymn to the pleasures of life that Gide came so close to losing: travel, touch, …
With an introduction by Marina WarnerColeridge's celebrated poem was written at the suggestion of William Wordsworth in the early days of their friendship, and published for the …
The Whitelaw patriach, Sunny Jim, exerts his perverse control even in death, by means of a will that binds the family fortune to a marriage that ought to be rent asunder. The …
Seducers in Ecuador is the story of Arthur Lomax, every bit the English gentleman in his white ducks and solar topee, enjoying the pleasures of an Egyptian cruise.
Dutiful and studious, Elizabeth sets out to reinvent herself in the American Southwest desert, sharing a house built of beer cans with her boyfriend, Spencer. Once back in London, …
Ander is always watchful, but particularly now, because the man across the table is his former teacher - Michael Wolphram - whom he hasn't seen in nearly 30 years. As the novel …
After years of fighting a smothering mother, a suburbanite sister whom she struggles to respect, and a late father who never forgave her for abandoning the family business, Amy …
A dystopian masterpiece - the powerful and prophetic novel that defined the twentieth century.The year is 1984. War and revolution have created an unrecognisable world. Great …
A child's eye view of a family in decline, "Luck" combines humour, suspense and pathos. This is the story of a nuclear family - father, mother, daughter and son. But all is not as …
WINNER OF THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/ACKERLY PRIZE.Several months after the death of poet Dannie Abse's wife, Joan, in a car accident, he began to write …