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| "Wilt: (Wilt Series 1) by Tom Sharpe (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "Henry Wilt tied to a daft job and a domineering wife has just been passed over for promotion yet again Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers joiners butchers and the like And things are no better at home where his massive wife Eva is given to boundless and unpredictable fits of enthusiasm - for transcendental meditation yoga or the trampoline But if Wilt can do nothing about his job he realises he can do something about his wife - and as each day passes his fantasies grow more murderous and more real"
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| "A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "May be the most detailed painstaking anatomy of desire that we are ever likely to see or need again An ecstatic celebration of love and language' Washington Post The language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak It is a language addressed to ourselves and to our imaginary beloved It is a language of solitude of mythology of what Barthes calls an 'image repertoire' Reviving the notion of the amorous subject beyond psychological or clinical enterprises Barthes' A Lover's Discourse is a book for everyone who has ever been in love or indeed thought themselves to be immune to its power"
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| "The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "The classic tale of a journey through war-torn Europe Alone and fending for themselves in a Poland devastated by World War Two Jan and his three homeless friends cling to the silver sword as a symbol of hope As they travel through Europe towards Switzerland where they believe they will be reunited with their parents they encounter many hardships and dangers This extraordinarily moving account of an epic journey gives a remarkable insight into the reality of a Europe laid waste by war"
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| "Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "My brother Shiva and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of September in the year of grace 1954 We took our first breaths in the thick air of Addis Ababa capital city of Ethiopia Bound by birth we were driven apart by bitter betrayal No surgeon can heal the would that divides two brothers Where silk and steel fail story must succeed To begin at the beginning"
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| "Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life what is sexual desire and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire Then a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island Sumire has mysteriously vanished"
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| "After the Quake by Haruki Murakami (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "For the characters in after the quake the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Miyake left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away Fourteen-year-old Sala has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is trying to stuff her inside a little box Katagiri returns home to find a giant frog in his apartment on a mission to save Tokyo from a massive burrowing worm 'When he gets angry he causes earthquakes' says Frog 'And right now he is very very angry"
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| "South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters His sole companion was Shimamoto also an only child Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection But when his family moved away the two lost touch Now Hajime is in his thirties After a decade of drifting he has found happiness with his loving wife and two daughters and success running a jazz bar Then Shimamoto reappears She is beautiful intense enveloped in mystery Hajime is catapulted into the past putting at risk all he has in the present"
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| "The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "When a man's favourite elephant vanishes the balance of his whole life is subtly upset A couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's A woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden An insomniac wife wakes up in a twilight world of semi-consciousness in which anything seems possible - even death In every one of these stories Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal"
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| "Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "High-class call girls billed to Mastercard A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers A one-armed beach-combing poet an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and out comes Dance Dance Dance"
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| "A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "His life was like his recurring nightmare a train to nowhere But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn Add a girl whose ears are so exquisite that when uncovered they improve sex a thousand-fold a runaway friend a right-wing politico an ovine-obsessed professor and a manic-depressive in a sheep outfit implicate them in a hunt for a sheep that may or may not be running the world and the upshot is another singular masterpiece from Japan's finest novelist"
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| "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "Toru Okada's cat has disappeared His wife is growing more distant every day Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving As this compelling story unfolds the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life spent cooking reading listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table are turned inside out and he embarks on a bizarre journey guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters each with a tale to tell"
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| "Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "When he hears her favourite Beatles song Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo adrift in a world of uneasy friendships casual sex passion loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past"
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| "A Tale Of Love And Darkness by Amos Oz (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDELove and darkness are just two of the powerful forces that run through Amos Oz's extraordinary moving story He takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and '50s and into the infernal marriage of two kind well-meaning people his fussy logical father and his dreamy romantic mother Caught between them is one small boy with the weight of generations on his shoulders And at the tragic heart of the story is the suicide of his mother when Amos was twelve-and-a-half years old Oz's story dives into 120 year of family history and paradox the saga of a Jewish love-hate affair with Europe that sweeps from Vilna and Odessa via Poland and Prague to Israel Farce and heartbreak history and humanity make up this magical portrait of the artist who saw the birth of a nation and came through its turbulent life as well as his own This is a memoir like no other and one that cries out to be read and wept over By the winner of the 2013 Franz Kafka Prize previous winners of which include Philip Roth Ivan Klima Elfriede Jelinek Harold Pinter and John Banville"
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| "The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell: WITH Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "WITH A FOREWORD JG BALLARDIn 1953 in the presence of an investigator Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin sat down and waited to see what would happen When he opened his eyes everything from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers was transformed Huxley described his experience with breathtaking immediacy in The Doors of Perception In its sequel Heaven and Hell he goes on to explore the history and nature of mysticism Still bristling with a sense of excitement and discovery these illuminating and influential writings remain the most fascinating account of the visionary experience ever written"
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| "Kafka On The Shore" |
| "Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy The aging Nakata tracker of lost cats who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down As their parallel odysseys unravel cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II There is a savage killing but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle - one of many which combine to create an elegant and dreamlike masterpiece"
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| "The Time Traveler's Wife" |
| "This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty Impossible but true because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future In the face of this force they can neither prevent nor control Henry and Clare's struggle to lead normal lives is both intensely moving and entirely unforgettable"
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| "The Power of the Dog" |
| "Drug lord Miguel Angel Barrera is head of the Mexican drug federacion responsible for millions of dollars worth of cocaine traffic into the US and the torture of those who stand in its way His nephew Adan Barrera is his worthy successor Art Keller is a US government operative so determined to obtain revenge for a murdered colleague that his pursuit of the cartel veers dangerously towards an obsession outside the law This is a world characterised by its brutality yet all Winslow's incredibly varied cast - including a high class prostitute an Irish hitman and a charismatic Catholic priest - are all in their own ways searching for salvation Don Winslow's masterpiece is not only a page-turning thriller but also a rich and compelling novel in the league of an Ellroy or Delillo"
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| "To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "THE ORIGINAL TEXT&39;Shoot all the Bluejays you want if you can hit &39;em but remember it&39;s a sin to kill a Mockingbird&39; Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking a white girl Through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch Lee explores the issues of race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s with compassion and humour She also creates one of the great heroes of literature in their father whose lone struggle for justice pricks the conscience of a town steeped in prejudice and hypocrisy Read the sequel to this book Go Set a Watchman"
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| Saturday |
| "Saturday February 15 2003 Henry Perowne a successful neurosurgeon stands at his bedroom window before dawn and watches a plane - ablaze with fire like a meteor - arcing across the London sky Over the course of the following day unease gathers about Perowne as he moves amongst hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors in the post-911 streets A minor car accident brings him into confrontation with Baxter a fidgety aggressive man who to Perowne's professional eye appears to be profoundly unwell But it is not until Baxter makes a sudden appearance at the Perowne family home that Henry's earlier fears seem about to be realised"
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| "Don Quixote Paperback / softback" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HAROLD BLOOM Widely regarded as the world&39;s first modern novel and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire Sancho Panza as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain Unless you read Spanish you&39;ve never read Don Quixote"
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| "Supernatural : Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind" |
| "Supernatural of or relating to things that cannot be explained according to natural lawsLess than 50000 years ago mankind had no art no religion no sophisticated symbolism no innovative thinking Then in a dramatic and electrifying change described by scientists as the greatest riddle in human history all the skills and qualities that we value most highly in ourselves appeared already fully formed as though bestowed on us by hidden powers In Supernatural Graham Hancock sets out to investigate this mysterious before-and-after moment and to discover the truth about the influences that gave birth to the modern human mind His quest takes him on a journey of adventure and detection from the stunningly beautiful painted caves of prehistoric France Spain and Italy to remote rock shelters in the mountains of South Africa where he finds a treasure trove of extraordinary Stone Age art He uncovers clues that lead him to travel to the depths of the Amazon rainforest to drink the powerful plant hallucinogen Ayahuasca with Indian shamans whose paintings contain images of supernatural beings identical to the animal-human hybrids depicted in prehistoric caves and rock shelters And hallucinogens such as mescaline also produce visionary encounters with exactly the same beings Scientists at the cutting edge of consciousness research have begun to consider the possibility that such hallucinations may be real perceptions of other dimensions Could the supernaturals first depicted in the painted caves and rock shelters be the ancient teachers of mankind? Could it be that human evolution is not just the blind meaningless process that Darwin identified but something else more purposive and intelligent that we have barely even begun to understand?"
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| "The Sound And The Fury" |
| "A towering intense novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWith an introduction by Richard HughesEver since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929 The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives The Sound and the Fury explores intense passionate family relationships where there is no love only self-centredness At its heart this is a novel about lovelessness - 'only an idiot has no grief; only a fool would forget it What else is there in this world sharp enough to stick to your guts?'Born in 1897 in New Albany Mississippi William Faulkner was the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the south He grew up in Oxford Mississippi and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank Rejected by the US military in 1915 he joined the Canadian flyers with the RAF but was still in training when the war ended Returning home he studied at the University of Mississippi and visited Europe briefly in 1925 His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919 His first book of verse and early novels followed but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929 As I Lay Dying (1930) Sanctuary (1931) Light in August (1932) Absalom Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period leading up to Intruder in the Dust (1948) During the 1930s he worked in Hollywood on film scripts notably The Blue Lamp co-written with Raymond Chandler William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in July1962"
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| "Catch-22 Paperback" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD JACOBSON Explosive subversive wild and funny 50 years on the novel&39;s strength is undiminished Reading Joseph Heller&39;s classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him Joseph Heller&39;s bestselling novel is a hilarious and tragic satire on military madness and the tale of one man&39;s efforts to survive it"
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| "The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "The perfect gift for Valentine's DayCharles Smithson a respectable engaged man meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis staring out to sea Charles falls in love but Sarah is a disgraced woman and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age Widely acclaimed since publication this is the best-love of John Fowles' novels"
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| "Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JM COETZEEA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton Seventeen-year-old Pinkie malign and ruthless has killed a man Believing he can escape retribution he is unprepared for the courageous life-embracing Ida Arnold Greene's gripping thriller exposes a world of loneliness and fear of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things'"
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| "The Happiness Hypothesis: Putting Ancient Wisdom to the Test of Modern Science by Jonathan Haidt (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "Every culture rests on a bedrock of folk wisdom handed down through generations The pronouncements of philosophers are homespun by our grandmothers and find their way into our common sense what doesn't kill you makes you stronger Do unto others as you would have done unto you Happiness comes from within But are these 'truths' really true? Today we all seem to prefer to cling to the notion that a little bit more money love or success will make us truly happy Are we wrong?In The Happiness Hypothesis psychologist Jonathan Haidt exposes traditional wisdom to the scrutiny of modern science delivering startling insights We learn that virtue is often not its own reward why extroverts really are happier than introverts and why conscious thought is not as important as we might like to think Drawing on the rich inspiration of both philosophy and science The Happiness Hypothesis is a remarkable original and provocative book - ancient wisdom in our time"
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| "As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family as they cart the coffin to Jefferson Mississippi to bury her among her people And as the intense desires fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power - as epic as the Old Testament as American as Huckleberry Finn"
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| "Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami by Haruki Murakami (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "What will you get for your birthday this year? A chance to see into the future? Or a reminder of the imperfect past?In this enviable gathering Haruki Murakami has chosen for his party some of the very best short story writers of recent years each with their own birthday experiences each story a snapshot of life on a single day Including stories by Russell Banks Ethan Canin Raymond Carver David Foster Wallace Denis Johnson Claire Keegan Andrea Lee Daniel Lyons Lewis Robinson Lynda Sexson Paul Theroux William Trevor and Haruki Murakami this anthology captures a range of emotions evoked by advancing age and the passing of time from events fondly recalled to the impact of appalling tragedy Previously published in a Japanese translation by Haruki Murakami this English edition contains a specially written introduction"
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| "Swallows And Amazons (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "The ultimate children&39;s classic - long summer days filled with adventure John Susan Titty and Roger sail their boat Swallow to a deserted island for a summer camping trip Exploring and playing sailors is an adventure in itself but the island holds more excitement in store Two fierce Amazon pirates Nancy and Peggy challenge them to war and a summer of battles and alliances ensues &39;My childhood simply would not have been the same without this book It created a whole world to explore one that lasted long in the imagination after the final page had been read&39; - Marcus Sedgwick"
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| "After Dark" |
| "Eyes mark the shape of the cityThe midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner Mari sips her coffee and reads a book but soon her solitude is disturbed a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel and needs Mari's help Meanwhile Mari's beautiful sister Eri lies in a deep heavy sleep that is 'too perfect too pure' to be normal; it has lasted for two months But tonight as the digital clock displays 0000 a hint of life flickers across the television screen in her room even though it's plug has been pulled out Strange nocturnal happenings or a trick of the night?"
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