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| "Demons: A Novel in Three Parts by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "From the award-winning translators of Crime and Punishment Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869 Dostoevsky intended his novel to castigate the fanaticism of his country's new revolutionaries particularly those known as Nihilists Blackly funny grotesque and shocking it is a disturbing portrait of five young men saturated in ideology and bent on destruction and a compelling study of terrorism"
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| "Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "The day Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison opened the Whistle Stop Cafe the town took a turn for the better It was the Depression and that cafe was a home from home for many of us You could get eggs grits bacon ham coffee and a smile for 25 cents Ruth was just the sweetest girl you ever met And Idgie? She was a character all right You never saw anyone so headstrong But how anybody could have thought she murdered that man is beyond me Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a mouth-watering tale of love laughter and mystery It will lift your spirits and above all it'll remind you of the secret to life friends"
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| "Zagazoo by Quentin Blake (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Zagazoo is a baby like no other In this quite exceptional picture book young readers will be delighted by the hilarious and unexpected changes in his behaviour as Zagazoo grows up Parents may detect some strange echoes of family life There have been many classic picture books from the incomparable pen of Quentin Blake but never one more extraordinary"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Dusklands by J. M. Coetzee (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "A megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe for undermining the 'natural' order of his universe with their anarchic rival order mocking him and subjecting him to the humiliations of his own all too palpable flesh A specialist in psychological warfare is driven to breakdown and madness by the stresses of a project of macabre ingenuity to win the war in Vietnam Both the 18th-century Jacobus Coetzee and the 20th-century Eugene Dawn are in the business of pushing back the frontiers of knowledge and are dealers in death who denounce their own humanity and spurn their feelings of guilt In these two narratives Coetzee has crystallized in their absurdity and horror the extremes of scientific evangelism and heroic exploration"
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| "Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1998Two old friends - Cline Linley and Vernon Halliday - meet at the funeral of gorgeous witty Molly Lane Both men had been Molly's lovers years before their dazzling success; Clive is Britain's most eminent modern composer and Vernon is the editor of the respected broadsheet The Judge In the weeks that follow Clive and Vernon's lives become bound together in ways neither could have imagined Two dubious moral decisions and a pact made in extremis lead them both to the heart of Amsterdam"
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| "The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man a young boy and a giant fish This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements"
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| "A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy was wounded and twice decorated Out of his experience came A Farewell to Arms Hemingway&39;s description of war is unforgettable He recreates the fear the comradeship the courage of his young American volunteer and the men and women he meets in Italy with total conviction But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war In it Hemingway has also created a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion"
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| "Black Dogs by Ian McEwan (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "In 1946 June and Bernard set off on their honeymoon Fired by their ideals and passion for one another they had planned an idyllic holiday but in France they witness an event that alters the course of their lives entirely Forty years on their son-in-law is trying to uncover the cause of their estrangement and is led back to this moment on honeymoon and an experience of such darkness it was to wrench the couple apart"
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| "The Innocent by Ian McEwan (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "Into a Berlin wrenched between East and West comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham assigned to a British-American surveillance team Though only a pawn in an international plot Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his ordinary life The promise of his new life begins to be fulfilled as Leonard becomes a crucial part of the surveillance team while simultaneously being initiated into a new world of love and sex by Maria a beautiful young German woman It is a promise that turns to horror in the course of one terrible evening - a night when Leonard Marnham learns just how much of his innocence he's willing to shed"
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| "Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "Henry Pulling a retired bank manager meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral Soon after she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way Brighton Paris Istanbul Paraguay Through Aunt Augusta a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms Henry joins a shiftless twilight society mixing with hippies war criminals CIA men; smoking pot breaking all the currency regulations and eventually coming alive after a dull suburban life In Travels with my Aunt Graham Greene not only gives us intoxicating entertainment but also confronts us with some of the most perplexing of human dilemmas"
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| "Cakes And Ale by W. Somerset Maugham (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARECakes and Ale is both a wickedly satirical novel about contemporary literary poseurs and a skilfully crafted study of freedom As he traces the fortunes of Edward Driffield and his extraordinary wife Rosie one of the most delightful heroines of twentieth-century literature Maugham's sardonic wit and lyrical warmth expertly combine in this accomplished and unforgettable novel"
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| "The Temple Of Dawn by Yukio Mishima (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "Honda a brilliant lawyer and man of reason is called to Bangkok on legal business where he is granted an audience with a young Thai princess - an encounter that radically alters the course of his life He is convinced she is a reincarnated spirit and undertakes a long arduous pilgrimage to the holy places of India where in the climatic scene he encounters her once more only to have his newfound beliefs shattered and his life bereft of all meaning"
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| "The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law when an unexpected acquaintance offers him a free trip to Europe and a chance to start over Ripley wants money success and the good life and he's willing to kill for it When his new-found happiness is threatened his response is as swift as it is shocking"
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| "Native Son by Richard Wright (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "'The most important and celebrated novel of Negro life to have appeared in America' - James BaldwinGripping and furious Native Son follows Bigger Thomas a young black man who is trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago Unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman's death he is hunted relentlessly baited by prejudiced officials charged with murder and driven to acknowledge a strange pride in his crime Native Son shocked readers on its first publication in 1940 and went on to make Richard Wright the first bestselling black writer in America"
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| "Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "Tokyo 1912 The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families a new and powerful political and social elite Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them Coming of age he is caught up in the tensions between old and new and his feelings for the exquisite spirited Satoko observed from the sidelines by his devoted friend Honda When Satoko is engaged to a royal prince Kiyoaki realises the magnitude of his passion"
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| "Strangers On A Train by Patricia Highsmith (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "The psychologists would call it folie a deux 'Bruno slammed his palms together 'Hey! Cheeses what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train see and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?'' From this moment almost against his conscious will Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities"
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| "Light In August by William Faulkner (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "A landmark in American fiction Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme the nature of evil Joe Christmas - a man doomed deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity and a place in society After killing his perverted God-fearing lover it becomes inevitable that he is pursued by a lynch-hungry mob Yet after the sacrifice there is new life a determined ray of light in Faulkner's complex and tragic world"
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| "Ali And Nino by Kurban Said (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Ali Khan and Nino Kipiani live in the cosmopolitan oil-rich capital of Azerbaijan which at the beginning of the twentieth century is a melting-pot of different cultures Ali is a Muslim with his ancestors' passion for the desert and Nino is a Christian Georgian girl with sophisticated European ways Despite their differences the two have loved each other since childhood and Ali is determined that he will marry Nino as soon as she leaves school But there is not only the obstacle of their different religions and parental consent to overcome The First World War breaks out As the Russians withdraw the Turks advance and Ali and Nino find themselves swept up in Azerbaijan's fight for independence"
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| "Atomised by Michel Houellebecq (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else Michel is a molecular biologist a thinker and idealist a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society Bruno by contrast is a libertine though more in theory than in practice his endless lust is all too rarely reciprocated Both are symptomatic members of our atomised society where religion has given way to shallow 'new age' philosophies and love to meaningless sexual connections Atomised tells the stories of the two brothers but the real subject of the novel is the dismantling of contemporary society and its assumptions its political incorrectness and its caustic and penetrating asides on everything from anthropology to the problem pages of girls' magazines A dissection of modern lives and loves By turns funny acid infuriating didactic touching and visceral"
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| "In Praise Of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists Tanizaki's eye ranges over architecture jade food toilets and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure The result is a classic description of the collision between the shadows of traditional Japanese interiors and the dazzling light of the modern age"
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| "No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "In 1779 driven out of his home Calum MacDonald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands with his extensive family After a long terrible journey he settles his family in 'the land of trees' and eventually they become a separate Nova Scotian clan red-haired and black-eyed with its own identity its own history It is the 1980s by the time our narrator Alexander MacDonald tells the story of his family a thrilling and passionate story that intersects with history with Culloden where the clans died and with the 1759 battle at Quebec that was won when General Wolfe sent in the fierce Highlanders because it was 'no great mischief if they fall'"
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| "The Moon And Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "Charles Strickland a conventional stockbroker abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti to live his life as a painter Whilst his betrayal of family duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin The Moon and Sixpence is at once a satiric caricature of Edwardian conventions and a vivid portrayal of the mentality of a genius"
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| "The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory hypocritical and sentimental and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity' When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic They regard this disallusionment as an act of betrayal on his part - and the retribution is deliberate and horrifying"
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| "Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces It is the story of Philip Carey an orphan eager for life love and adventure After a few months studying in Heidelberg and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist Philip settles in London to train as a doctor And that is where he meets Mildred the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly ruins him"
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| "Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Paris in the twenties Pernod parties and expatriate Americans loose-living on money from home Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful with an abandoned sensuous nature that she cannot change When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the Bullfight their affair is strained by new passions new jealousies and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman that he loves"
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| "Darkness Visible" |
| "This is a story of depression a condition that reduced William Styron from a person enjoying life and success as an acclaimed writer to a man engulfed and menaced by mental anguish With profound insight and remarkable candor Styron tracks the progress of his madness from the smothering misery and exhaustion to the agony of composing his own suicide note and his eventual hard-won recovery Illuminating an illness that affects millions but which remains widely misunderstood this book is about the darkness of depression but it is also ultimately about survival and redemption"
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| "Cider With Rosie" |
| "Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village a village before electricity or cars a timeless place on the verge of change Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belongs to a now-distant past"
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| "The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion" |
| "Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer Taunted by his schoolmates he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto where he develops an all-consuming obsession with the temple's beauty This powerful story of dedication and sacrifice brings together Mishima's preoccupations with violence desire religion and national history to dazzling effect"
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| Glue |
| "Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes and about the loyalties the experiences and the secrets that hold them together into their thirties As we follow their lives from the 70's into the new century - from punk to techno from speed to Es - we can see each of them trying to struggle out from under the weight of the conditioning of class and culture peer pressure and their parents' hopes that maybe their sons will do better than they did What binds the four of them is the friendship formed by the scheme their school and their ambition to escape from both; their loyalty fused in street morality back up your mates don't hit women and most importantly never grass - on anyone"
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| "Our Man In Havana : An Introduction by Christopher Hitchens" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSWormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted In return all he has to do is carry out a little espionage and file a few reports But when his fake reports start coming true things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place"
Price: 7.49 |
