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| "Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" |
| "Quiet by Susan Cain will change how you think about introverts foreverA Sunday Times and New York Times BestsellerOur lives are driven by a fact that most of us can't name and don't understand It defines who our friends and lovers are which careers we choose and whether we blush when we're embarrassedThat fact is whether we're an introvert or an extrovertThe introvertextrovert divide is the most fundamental dimension of personality And at least a third of us are on the introverted side Some of the world's most talented people are introverts Without them we wouldn't have the Apple computer the theory of relativity and Van Gogh's sunflowersYet extroverts have taken over Shyness sensitivity and seriousness are often seen as being negative Introverts feel reproached for being the way they areIn Quiet Susan Cain shows how the brain chemistry of introverts and extroverts differs and how society misunderstands and undervalues introverts She gives introverts the tools to better understand themselves and take full advantage of their strengthsPassionately argued superbly researched and filled with real stories Quiet will permanently change how we see introverts - and how you see yourself'I can't get Quiet out of my head It is an important book - so persuasive and timely and heartfelt it should inevitably effect change in schools and offices' Jon Ronson The Guardian 'Susan Cain's Quiet has sparked a quiet revolution In our booming culture hers is a still small voice that punches above its weight Perhaps rather than sitting back and asking people to speak up managers and company leaders might lean forward and listen' Megan Walsh The Times 'Quiet is a very timely book and Cain's central thesis is fresh and important Maybe the extrovert ideal is no longer as powerful as it was; perhaps it is time we all stopped to listen to the still small voice of calm' Daisy Goodwin The Sunday Times Susan Cain is the owner of The Negotiation Company a firm that trains people in negotiation and communication skills Her clients include Merrill Lynch Standard & Poor University of Chicago Business School and many of the US's most powerful law firms She previously practiced corporate law for seven years with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton She lives in New York with her husband and two sons wwwThePowerOfIntrovertscom"
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| "The Looming Tower : Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11" |
| "Brilliantly written compelling and highly original The Looming Tower is the first book to tell the full story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 911 Drawing on astonishing interviews and first-hand sources it investigates the extraordinary group of idealogues behind this organization - and those who tried to stop them There is the tormented resentful Egyptian Sayyid Qutb who was horrified by the godlessness and decadence he perceived in America in 1948 and whose subsequent writings turned him into a martyr for Islamic extremists There is Ayman al-Zawahiri a devout student who by the age of fifteen had already helped to form an underground jihadist cell There is the deeply contradictory Osama bin Laden Saudi multimillionaire turned muhajideen commander whose interests merged with al-Zawahiri's to form a global terror coalition And there is the FBI's counterterrorism chief the flamboyant cigar-smoking John O'Neill who found his warnings that 'something big' was coming continually ignored and would finally meet his fate in the shadow of the Twin Towers Interweaving this extraordinary story with events including the Israeli-Palestine conflict the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the first attack on the World Trade Center Lawrence Wright takes us into training camps mountain hideouts and top secret meetings to explore how it all fed into the planning and execution of 911 - and reveals the real complex origins of Al Qaeda's hatred of the WestWright's brilliantly acclaimed book now includes a new Afterword which covers events that have unfolded since publication including the death of Osama Bin Laden"
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| "The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "The internationally bestselling Man Booker-shortlisted portrait of a man caught between conflicting identities and betrayed by the world he has embraced - from the author of Exit WestAdapted as a major film starring Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland&39;Masterful A poignant love story and a thriller that subtly ratchets up the nerve-jangling tension towards an explosive ending&39; Metro&39;Excuse me sir but may I be of assistance? Ah I see I have alarmed you Do not be frightened by my beard I am a lover of America &39;So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles Invited to join him for tea you learn his name and what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out For he is more worldy than you might expect; better travelled and better educated He knows the West better than you do And as he tells you his story of how he embraced the Western dream -- and a Western woman -- and how both betrayed him so the night darkens Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear Challenging mysterious and thrillingly tense Mohsin Hamid&39;s masterly The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a vital read teeming with questions and ideas about some of the most pressing issues of today&39;s globalised fractured world"
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| "Gypsy by Lesley Pearse (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Gypsy is a compelling historical novel of survival from international number one bestselling author Lesley Pearse Tragedy sent her on a journey far from home Fifteen-year-old Beth's life is shattered when she and her brother Sam are orphaned Believing that only in America can they make a fresh start brother and sister leave Liverpool and embark on the greatest adventure of their livesIn New York Beth's talent with the fiddle earns her the friendship of gamblers chancers and other rogues Dodging trouble across America Beth and her friends head for the Klondike river in search of goldHow far must Beth go to find happiness? And will her travels lead this gypsy to a place she can ever call home?Praise for Lesley Pearse'With characters it is impossible not to care about this is storytelling at its very best' Daily Mail'Lose yourself in this epic saga' Bella'An emotional and moving epic you won't forget in a hurry' Woman's WeeklyFind Lesley on Twitter LesleyPearse or find out more on her website wwwlesleypearsecouk"
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| "Regeneration by Pat Barker (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Regeneration is Pat Barker's classic Man Booker Prize-nominated novel of World War I and traumaCraiglockhart War Hospital Scotland 1917 and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen as well as mute Billy Prior who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper Rivers's job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients' minds the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front Pat Barker's Regeneration is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young menThis is the first novel in Pat Barker's Man Booker Prize-winning Regeneration Trilogy'A brilliant novel Intense and subtle' Peter Kemp Sunday Times'A vivid evocation of the agony of the First World War and a multi-layered exploration of all wars A fine anthem for doomed youth' Time Out'A novel of tremendous power' Margaret Forster 'Unforgettable' Sunday Telegraph'One of the strongest and most interesting novelists of her generation' Guardian Other titles in the trilogyThe Eye in the DoorThe Ghost Road"
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| "The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "The Eye in the Door is the second novel in Pat Barker's classic Regeneration trilogyWINNER OF THE 1993 GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZELondon 1918 Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions But his private encounters with women and men - pacifists objectors homosexuals - conflict with his duties as a soldier and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down Forced to consult the man who helped him before - army psychiatrist William Rivers - Prior must confront his inability to be the dutiful soldier his superiors wish him to be The Eye in the Door is a heart-rending study of the contradictions of war and of those forced to live through it'A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings male and female soldiers and civilians' A S Byatt Daily Telegraph'Every bit as waveringly intense and intelligent as its predecessor' Sunday Times'Startlingly original spellbinding' Sunday Telegraph'Gripping moving profoundly intelligent bursting with energy and darkly funny' Independent on SundayOther titles in the trilogyRegenerationThe Ghost Road"
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| "Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid reveals why millions are actually poorer because of aid unable to escape corruption and reduced in the West's eyes to a childlike state of beggary We all want to help Over the past fifty years 1 trillion of development aid has flowed from Western governments to Africa with rock stars and actors campaigning for more But this has not helped Africa It has ruined it Dead Aid shows us another way Using hard evidence to illustrate her case Moyo shows how with access to capital and with the right policies even the poorest nations can turn themselves around First we must destroy the myth that aid works - and make charity history 'Articulate self-confident and angry this book marks a turning point' Spectator 'A damning assessment of the failures of sixty years of western development' Financial Times 'Kicks over the traditional piety that Western aid benefits the third world' Sunday Herald Books of the Year 'Dambisa Moyo makes a compelling case for a new approach' Kofi Annan 'This reader was left wanting a lot more Moyo a lot less Bono' Niall Ferguson Dambisa Moyo worked at Goldman Sachs for eight years having previously worked for the World Bank as a consultant Moyo completed a PhD in Economics at Oxford University and holds a Masters from Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Her other books include Winner Take All and How the West was Lost She was born and raised in Lusaka Zambia"
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| "A Fraction Of The Whole by Steve Toltz (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Steve Toltz's A Fraction of the Whole is a riotously funny explosion of a novelSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008From his prison cell Jasper Dean tells the unlikely story of his scheming father Martin his crazy Uncle Terry and how the three of them upset - mostly unintentionally - an entire continent Incorporating death parenting (good and bad kinds) one labyrinth first love a handbook for criminals a scheme to make everyone rich and an explosive suggestion box Steve Toltz's A Fraction of the Whole is a hilarious heartbreaking story of families and how to survive them'A fat book but very light on its feet skipping from anecdote to rant to reflection like a stone skimming across a pond it is brilliant' Guardian'Sparkling comic writing It gives off the unmistakeable whiff of a book that might just contain the secret of life' Independent'With tinges of magical realism and buckets of misanthropic humour it's a clever and funny debut' Observer'If first novels were sandwiches Steve Toltz's would be a juicy swaggering doorstop of a sarnie overflowing with eccentrically combined but delicious ingredients Toltz is a superb phrase-maker with an acute eye for humanity's shortfalls'Big IssueSteve Toltz was born in Sydney After graduating from Newcastle University in 1994 he has lived in Sydney Montreal Vancouver Barcelona and Paris working primarily as a screenwriter and freelance writer but also doing stints as both a private investigator and an English teacher A Fraction of the Whole is his first book"
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| "Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar he is swept into a passionate love affair But his girlfriend’s return to Paris destroys everything Unable to admit to the truth David pretends the liaison never happened – while Giovanni’s life descends into tragedy United by the theme of love the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds Readers will be introduced to love’s endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities romantic love platonic love erotic love gay love virginal love adulterous love parental love filial love nostalgic love unrequited love illicit love not to mention lost love twisted and obsessional love…"
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| "Trouble with Lichen: Classic Science Fiction by John Wyndham (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley two scientists investigating a rare lichen discover it has a remarkable property it retards the aging process Francis realising the implications for the world of an ever-youthful wealthy elite wants to keep it secret but Diana sees an opportunity to overturn the male status quo by using the lichen to inspire a feminist revolutionAs each scientist wrestles with the implications and practicalities of exploiting the discovery the world comes ever closer to learning the truth Trouble With Lichen is a scintillating story of the power wielded by science in our lives and asks how much trust should we place in those we appoint to be its guardians?"
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| "Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "In her prize-winning first novel Zennor in Darkness Helen Dunmore reimagines the plight of DH Lawrence and his German wife hiding out in Cornwall during the First World War Spring 1917 and war haunts the Cornish coastal village of Zennor ships are being sunk by U-boats strangers are treated with suspicion and newspapers are full of spy stories Into this turmoil come D H Lawrence and his German wife Frieda hoping to escape the war-fever that grips London They befriend Clare Coyne a young artist struggling to console her beloved cousin John William who is on leave from the trenches and suffering from shell-shockYet the dark tide of gossip and innuendo means that Zennor is neither a place of recovery nor of escape 'Helen Dunmore mesmerizes you with her magical pen' Daily Mail'A beautiful and inspired novel' John le Carre'Secrets unspoken words lies that have the truth wrapped up in them somewhere make Dunmore's stories ripple with menace and suspense' Sunday TimesHelen Dunmore has published eleven novels with Penguin Zennor in Darkness which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter which won the Orange Prize; Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby; House of Orphans; Counting the Stars and The Betrayal which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010 She is also a poet children's novelist and short-story writer"
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| "Moscow Rules by Daniel Silva (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "The violent death of a journalist leads secret agent Gabriel Allon to Russia But this is not the grim Moscow of Soviet times but a new Moscow awash in oil wealth and in thrall to a new generation of rich Stalinists plotting to challenge an old enemy the United StatesOne such man is Ivan Kharkov a former KGB colonel whose global empire is built on a lucrative and deadly business Kharkov is an arms dealer - and he's about to sell Russia's most dangerous weapon to al-Qaeda Unless Allon can learn the time and place of delivery the world will suffer its deadliest terror attack since 911 The countdown to Armageddon has begun"
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| "Animal Farm by George Orwell (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey&39;s new look for Orwell&39;s timeless satire&39;All animals are equal But some animals are more equal than others&39;Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking over the farm Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard the renamed Animal Farm is organised to benefit all who walk on four legs But as time passes the ideals of the rebellion are corrupted then forgotten And something new and unexpected emerges Animal Farm - the history of a revolution that went wrong - is George Orwell&39;s brilliant satire on the corrupting influence of power"
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| "NW by Zadie Smith (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "Coming soon as a BBC2 drama adaptation -- a masterful novel about London life from the bestselling prize-winning Zadie Smith Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners - Leah Natalie Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council estate grown up and moved on to different lives From private houses to public parks at work and at play their city is brutal beautiful and complicated Yet after a chance encounter they each find that the choices they've made the people they once were and are now can suddenly rapidly unravel A portrait of modern urban life NW is funny sad and urgent - as brimming with vitality as the city itselfPraise for NW'Her dialogue sings and soars; terse packed and sassy Smith is simply wonderful Dickens's legitimate daughter' Boyd Tonkin Independent'Astonishing dazzling Really - without exaggeration - not since Dickens has there been a better observer of London scenes Zadie Smith is a genius It's hard to imagine a better novel this year - or this decade' AN Wilson'Intensely funny richly varied always unexpected A joyous optimistic angry masterpiece No better English novel will be published this year' Philip Hensher Daily Telegraph'Absolutely brilliant So electrically authentic' TIME'Captivating Funny sexy weird full of acute social comedy like London She's up there with the best around' Evening Standard'Marvellous crackles with reflections on race music and migration A lyrical fiction for our times' Spectator'Undeniably brilliant rush out and buy this book' Observer"
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| "Swing Time: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 by Zadie Smith (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017'Smith's finest Extraordinary truly marvellous' Observer 'Superb' Financial Times 'Breathtaking' TLS 'Pitch-perfect' Daily Telegraph'A tale of two girls who meet in a West London dance class A page-turner that's also beautifully written ' Glamour'There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith' TelegraphSHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017 Mumsnet Book of the Month for July 2017A dazzlingly exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On BeautyTwo brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one Tracey has talent The other has ideas about rhythm and time black bodies and black music what it means to belong what it means to be free It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties never to be revisited but never quite forgotten eitherBursting with energy rhythm and movement Swing Time is Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel yet It is a story about music and identity race and class those who follow the dance and those who lead it"
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| "Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking George Orwell's entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic from freedom of the press to what patriotism really means"
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| "The English Assassin by Daniel Silva (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is asked to visit Zurich to clean the work of an Old Master for a millionaire banker But when he gets there he finds the corpse of his client in a pool of blood beneath the masterpiece and discovers that a secret collection of priceless paintings - stolen by Nazis in the war - is missing With the Swiss authorities trying to pin the murder on Allon and a powerful cabal determined to make sure this wartime secret remains buried the art restorer must use all his former spy skills to find out the truth And with an assassin that he helped to train also on the loose Allon will need all his wits just to stay alive"
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| "The Chimney Sweeper's Boy by Barbara Vine (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "The Chimney Sweeper's Boy - a classic crime novel by bestselling prize-winning author Barbara Vine'Gripping almost impossible to put down' Guardian'One of the most frightening novels I have ever read Gerald Candless the monster at the heart of the maze is a marvellous creation' Amanda Craig Express on SundayWhen successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack his eldest adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared to be That in fact he wasn't Gerald Candless at all But then who was he? And what terrible secret had driven him to live a lie for all those years?'So ingeniously constructed its truth and falsehoods are so deftly and convincingly interwoven that its solution is as jolting as a flash of lightning' Sunday Times'About the power of taboos transgressions guilts deceptions horrors atonements upsets and upheavals gripping' IndependentIf you enjoy the crime novels of PD James Ian Rankin and Scott Turow you will love The Chimney Sweeper's Boy Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym including A Fatal Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet which both won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award Her other books include A Dark Adapted Eye; The House of Stairs; Gallowglass; Asta's Book; No Night Is Too Long; In the Time of His Prosperity; The Brimstone Wedding; The Chimney Sweeper's Boy; Grasshopper; The Blood Doctor; The Minotaur; The Birthday Present and The Child's Child"
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| "Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Hardback, 2008)" |
| "Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane she is determined to dislike him more than ever In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendshipsgossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life"
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| "Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Hardback, 2008)" |
| "Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design In a house haunted by memories the past is everywhere As darkness falls a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange grim house Wuthering Heights It is a place he will never forget There he will come to learn the story of Cathy how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband and the dangerous man she had loved since she was young How her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge - and continues to torment those in the present How love can transgress authority convention even death"
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| "Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (Hardback, 2008)" |
| "Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo Meanwhile Elinor always sensitive to social convention is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment even from those closest to her Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love"
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| "Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Hardback, 2008)" |
| "Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Charlotte Bronte's first published novel Jane Eyre was immediately recognised as a work of genius when it appeared in 1847 Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity How she takes up the post of governess at Thornfield Hall meets and loves Mr Rochester and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage are elements in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than that traditionally accorded to her sex in Victorian society"
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| "The Penguin Book of Baby Names by David Pickering (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Of all the decisions a new parent makes choosing that special name is the most significant and the most rewarding A new reference book for prospective parents this clear helpful and easy-to-use A-Z guide gives you thousands of brilliant suggestions for picking the perfect name for your new arrival It also includes appendices of the top ten names through the centuries and the most popular celebrity names"
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| "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Patrick Suskind's Perfume is a classic novel of death and sensuality in Paris'In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille and if his name has been forgotten today it is certainly not because Grenouille fell short of those more famous blackguards when it came to arrogance misanthropy immorality or more succinctly wickedness but because his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to a domain that leaves no traces in history to the fleeting realm of scent ''An astonishing tour de force both in concept and execution' Guardian'A fantastic tale of murder and twisted eroticism controlled by a disgusted loathing of humanity Clever stylish absorbing and well worth 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 to want to get a whiff of this strange perfume which will remain unique in contemporary literature' Figaro'An ingenious and totally absorbing fantasy' Daily Telegraph'Witty stylish and ferociously absorbing' ObserverPatrick Suskind was born near Munich in 1949 He studied medieval and modern history at the University of Munich His first play The Double Bass was written in 1980 and became an international success His first novel Perfume became an internationally acclaimed bestseller He is also the author of The Pigeon and Mr Summer's Story and a coauthor of the enormously successful German television series Kir Royal Patrick Suskind lives and writes in Munich"
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| "The Millstone by Margaret Drabble (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "A celebration of the drama and intensity of the mother-child relationship Margaret Drabble'sThe Millstone won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1965It is the Swinging Sixties and Rosamund Stacey is young and inexperienced at a time when sexual liberation is well on its way She conceals her ignorance beneath a show of independence and becomes pregnant as a result of a one night stand Although single parenthood is still not socially acceptable she chooses to have the baby rather than to seek an illegal abortion and finds her life transformed by motherhood Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain When they were published some were bestsellers some were considered scandalous and others were simply misunderstood All represent their time and helped define their generation while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling'Rosamund is marvellous a true Drabble heroine what spirit is here' Sunday Times'One of our foremost women writers' Guardian'The novelist who will have done for late twentieth-century London what Dickens did for Victorian London' The New York TimesMargaret Drabble was born in 1939 in Sheffield Yorkshire the daughter of barrister and novelist John F Drabble and sister of novelist AS Byatt She is the author of eighteen novels and eight works of non-fiction including biographies of Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson Her many novels include The Radiant Way (1987) A Natural Curiosity (1989) The Gates of Ivory (1991) The Peppered Moth (2000) The Seven Sisters (2002) and The Red Queen (2004) all of which are published by Penguin In 1980 Margaret Drabble was made a CBE and in 2008 she was made DBE She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd and lives in London and Somerset"
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| "Brooklyn by Colm Toibin (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Colm Toibin&39;s Brooklyn is a devastating story of love loss and one woman&39;s terrible choice between duty and personal freedom It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey as for so many young Irish girls opportunities are scarce So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York Eilis knows she must go leaving behind her family and her home for the first time Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed She is far from home - and homesick And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship and perhaps something more Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love &39;With this elating and humane novel Colm Tóibín has produced a masterwork&39; Sunday Times&39;Unforgettable&39; Spectator&39;The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time&39; Zoë Heller Guardian Books of the Year&39;Magnificent&39; Sunday Telegraph&39;A work of such skill understatement and sly jewelled merriment could haunt your life&39; Ali Smith TLS Books of the YearWhen you are finished why not read the companion novel Nora Webster"
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| "Nora Webster by Colm Toibin (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards and the 2015 Folio Prize Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing todayIt is the late 1960s in Ireland Nora Webster is living in a small town looking after her four children trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband She is fiercely intelligent at times difficult and impatient at times kind but she is trapped by her circumstances and waiting for any chance which will lift her beyond them Slowly through the gift of music and the power of friendship she finds a glimmer of hope and a way of starting again As the dynamic of the family changes she seems both fiercely self-possessed but also a figure of great moral ambiguity making her one of the most memorable heroines in contemporary fiction The portrait that is painted in the years that follow is harrowing piercingly insightful always tender and deeply true Colm Toibin's Nora is a character as resonant as Anna Karenina or Madame Bovary and Nora Webster is a novel that illuminates our own lives in a way that is rare in literature Its humanity and compassion forge an unforgettable reading experience 'A profoundly gifted world writer' Sebastian Barry"
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| "And Another Thing ...: Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three by Eoin Colfer (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Arthur Dent's accidental association with that wholly remarkable book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has not been entirely without incidentArthur has travelled the length breadth and depth of known and unknown space He has stumbled forwards and backwards through time He has been blown up reassembled cruelly imprisoned horribly released and colourfully insulted more than is strictly necessary And of course he has comprehensively failed to grasp the meaning of life the universe and everythingArthur has though finally made it home to Earth But that does not mean he has escaped his fateFor Arthur's chances of getting his hands on a decent cuppa are evaporating along with the world's oceans Because no sooner has he arrived than he finds out that Earth is about to be blown up again"
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| "The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman is the gripping first instalment in a remarkable trilogyListen The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuaryThe Sanctuary of the Redeemers is a vast and desolate place - a place without joy or hope Most of its occupants were taken there as boys and for years have endured the brutal regime of the Lord Redeemers whose cruelty and violence have one singular purpose - to serve in the name of the One True FaithIn one of the Sanctuary's vast and twisting maze of corridors stands a boy He is perhaps fourteen or fifteen years old - he is not sure and neither is anyone else He has long-forgotten his real name but now they call him Thomas Cale He is strange and secretive witty and charming violent and profoundly bloody-minded He is so used to the cruelty that he seems immune but soon he will open the wrong door at the wrong time and witness an act so terrible that he will have to leave this place or dieHis only hope of survival is to escape across the arid Scablands to Memphis a city the opposite of the Sanctuary in every way breathtakingly beautiful infinitely Godless and deeply corrupt But the Redeemers want Cale back at any price not because of the secret he now knows but because of a much more terrifying secret he does notThe Left Hand of God is a must read It is the first instalment in a gripping trilogy by Paul Hoffman Imagine if Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials met Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose Fans of epic heroic fiction will love this seriesPraise for Paul Hoffman'This book gripped me from the first chapter and then dropped me days later dazed and grinning to myself' Conn Iggulden'Tremendous momentum' Daily Telegraph'A cult classic ' Daily Express"
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| "The Beating of his Wings by Paul Hoffman (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "The Beating of his Wings by Paul Hoffman is the final instalment in his epic Cale and the Sanctuary of Redeemers series The Beating of his Wings is the third and final instalment in the epic Paul Hoffman trilogy following Cale and the Sanctuary of the Redeemers Following The Left Hand of God and The Last Four Things this climatic ending will bring this sensational narrative to a close and finally the fate of the angel of death will be revealedImagine if Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials met Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose Fans of epic heroic fiction will love this seriesPraise for Paul Hoffman'This book gripped me from the first chapter and then dropped me days later dazed and grinning to myself' Conn Iggulden'Tremendous momentum' Daily Telegraph'A cult classic ' Daily Express Paul Hoffman is the author of four previous novels The Last Four Things (2011) The Left Hand of God (2010) The Golden Age of Censorship (2007) a black comedy based on his experiences as a film censor and The Wisdom of Crocodiles (2000) which predicted the collapse of the world financial system"
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