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Europe. 1913It's the eve of the First World War. One era ends as another is set to begin. Before life is changed forever in the maelstrom of war, the excess and extravagance of …

Swan Song is the companion volume to Stephen Elder's first collection of essays (Little Book of Essays) published in 2012. Topics range from political satire ("Hurricane Isaac and …

A new novel, funny, wise, moving, true, as only Lisa Alther can write ("e;she had me laughing at 4 in the morning"e; --Doris Lessing), set on a cruise ship, about a woman, …

Ursula Becker's operatic star is on the rise in Nazi Berlin...until she discovers that she is one-quarter Jewish, a mischling of the second degree. Although Hitler is aware of her …

Hull, autumn 2005 and private investigator Leo Rivers finds himself at the overheated heart of an inquiry into the savage killing of several young women. Approached by the mother …

Swan Song is the sixth of the nine novels in The Forsyte Chronicles and the conclusion of the second trilogy, called A Modern Comedy. John Galsworthy's epic story of the moneyed …

What happens when Hope Vale, an aspiring Vitiligo make-up artist who wants to eradicate the market of whitening products meets Spes Zrey, an arrogant Hugo-Boss awardee struggling …

In the first critical study wholly devoted to Joseph Conrad's use of techniques associated with the literary tradition of romance, the author argues that Conrad's engagement with …

In Verse III, "Kissy Sizzle's Swan Song", we catch up with our heroes several years after the end of their adventures in "The Plight of the Bumble Bee". Join Kissy, Kian and Master …