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| "The Third Man and the Fallen Idol" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IAN THOMSONThe Third Man is Graham Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna a 'smashed dreary city' occupied by the four Allied powers Rollo Martins a second-rate novelist arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero Harry Lime But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances and the police are closing in on his associates The Fallen Idol is the chilling story of a small boy caught up in the games that adults play Left in the care of the butler and his wife whilst his parents go on a fortnight's holiday Philip realises too late the danger of lies and deceit But the truth is even deadlier"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress" |
| "1971 Mao's cultural Revolution is at its peak Two sons of doctors sent to 're-education' camps forced to carry buckets of excrement up and down mountain paths have only their sense of humour to keep them going Although the attractive daughter of the local tailor also helps to distract them from the task at hand The boys' true re-education starts however when they discover a hidden suitcase packed with the great Western novels of the nineteenth century Their lives are transformed And not only their lives after listening to the stories of Balzac the little seamstress will never be the same again"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Foucault's Pendulum" |
| "Three book editors jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game but then their game starts to take over the deaths start mounting and they are forced into a frantic search for the truth"
Price: 8.49 |
| "London Under" |
| "London Under is an atmospheric imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers gang hideouts and modern Underground stations This book tunnels down through the geological layers meeting the creatures both real and fictional that dwell in the darkness - rats and eels monsters and ghosts From the Anglo-Saxon graves under St Paul's to the hydraulic device in Kensal Green cemetery which lowered bodies into the catacombs below to the fossils uncovered when the Victoria Line was built and the gold bars within the Bank of England's vaults London Under takes you into a hidden world beneath our feet"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Piano Shop On The Left Bank" |
| "T E Carhart an American living in Paris is intrigued by a piano repair shop hidden down a street near his apartment When he finally gains admittance to the secretive world of the atelier he finds himself in an enormous glass-roofed workshop filled with dozens of pianos His love affair with this most magical of instruments and its music is reawakened Packed with delicate cameos of Parisians and reflections on how pianos work and their glorious history The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is an atmospheric and absorbing journey to an older way of life"
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| "The Woman In Black" |
| "The Classic English Ghost StoryArthur Kipps a junior solicitor is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House The house stands at the end of a causeway wreathed in fog and mystery but it is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman dressed all in black at the funeral that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold a feeling deepened by the reluctance of the locals to talk of the woman in black - and her terrible purpose"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Human Factor" |
| "With a new introduction by Colm ToibinA leak is traced to a small sub-section of SIS sparking off the inevitable security checks tensions and suspicions The sort of atmosphere perhaps where mistakes could be made? For Maurice Castle it is the end of the line anyway and time for him to retire to live peacefully with his African wife Sarah To the lonely isolated neurotic world of the Secret Service Graham Greene brings his brilliance and perception laying bare a machine that sometimes overlooks the subtle and secret motivations that impel us"
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| "The Feeling Of What Happens" |
| "One of the world's leading experts on the neurophysiology of emotions Professor Antonio Damasio shows how our consciousness our sense of being arose out of the development of emotion At its core human consciousness is consciousness of the feeling experiencing self the 'very thought of' oneself Brilliantly wide-ranging in his scope Damasio illustrates his thesis with fascinating and illuminating neurological case studies that are both stimulating and provocative"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town David Lurie middle-aged and twice divorced has an impulsive affair with a student The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry Willing to admit his guilt but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy&39;s isolated smallholding For a time his daughter&39;s influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life But the balance of power in the country is shifting He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship"
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| "Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "When war broke out in 1914 Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the British Secret Service to Switzerland under the guise of completing a play Multilingual knowledgeable about many European countries and a celebrated writer Maugham had the perfect cover and the assignment appealed to his love of romance and of the ridiculous The stories collected in Ashenden are rooted in Maugham's own experiences as an agent reflecting the ruthlessness and brutality of espionage its intrigue and treachery as well as its absurdity"
Price: 7.49 |
| "For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge Robert Jordan a young American volunteer has been sent to handle the dynamiting There in the mountains he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war And there he discovers Maria a young woman who has escaped from Franco&39;s rebels"
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| "The Sound Of Waves by Yukio Mishima (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "Set in a remote fishing village in Japan The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love It tells of Shinji a young fisherman and Hatsue the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach and they fall in love When the villagers' gossip threatens to divide them Shinki must risk his life to prove his worth"
Price: 7.99 |
| "In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 3: The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATIONIn The Guermantes Way Proust's narrator recalls his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society Looking back over his time in the glamorous salons of the aristocracy he satirises this shallow world and his own youthful infatuation with it His observations and his experiences with his lover Albertine also educate him in the volatile nature of desire as he walks the path towards adulthood"
Price: 8.49 |
| "In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 4: Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATIONIn Sodom and Gomorrah Proust's narrator not only depicts the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century but also exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society and muses upon the subjects of homosexuality and sexual jealousy"
Price: 8.99 |
| "The King Arthur Trilogy by Rosemary Sutcliff (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "The legends of King Arthur and his knights have passed down through the generations since medieval times In this spellbinding trilogy Rosemary Sutcliff recreates all the mystique and mystery of the golden age of Camelot for a new generation"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Lustrum: (Cicero Trilogy 2) by Robert Harris (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "Rome 63 BC In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire seven men are struggling for power Cicero is consul Caesar his ruthless young rival Pompey the republic's greatest general Crassus its richest man Cato a political fanatic Catilina a psychopath Clodius an ambitious playboy The stories of these real historical figures - their alliances and betrayals their cruelties and seductions their brilliance and their crimes - are all interleaved to form this epic novel Its narrator is Tiro a slave who serves as confidential secretary to the wily humane complex Cicero He knows all his master's secrets - a dangerous position to be in From the discovery of a child's mutilated body through judicial execution and a scandalous trial to the brutal unleashing of the Roman mob Lustrum is a study in the timeless enticements and horrors of power"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Anne Frank by Josephine Poole (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "Anne Frank&39;s diary telling the story of her years in hiding from the Nazis has affected millions of people But what was she like as a small girl at home with her family and friends; at play and at school? And how did an ordinary little girl come to live such an extraordinary and tragically short life? In the first half of the book we meet Anne as a small child growing up with her family in Germany Then we follow her flight to Holland to escape the Nazis; the German invasion and the gradual isolation then outright persecution of the Jewish population which forces the family into hiding; the years in the Secret Annex; and her last heart-breaking journey"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Emil And The Detectives by Erich Kastner (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "If Mrs Tischbein had known the amazing adventures her son Emil would have in Berlin she&39;d never have let him go Unfortunately when his seven pounds goes missing on the train Emil is determined to get it back - and when he teams up with the detectives he meets in Berlin it&39;s just the start of a marvellous money-retrieving adventure A classic and influential story Emil and the Detectives remains an enthralling read From November 16th 2013 an exciting new adaptation of Emil and the Detectives will be playing at the National Theatre in London"
Price: 4.99 |
| "The Pursuit Of Happiness by Douglas Kennedy (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "The critically acclaimed bestseller from the number one bestselling author of The Moment and A Special Relationship A powerful romantic novel set in the tumultuous world of post-war America New York 1945 - Sara Smythe a young beautiful and intelligent woman ready to make her own way in the big city attends her brother's Thanksgiving Eve party As the party gets into full swing in walks Jack Malone a US Army journalist back from a defeated Germany and a man unlike any Sara has ever met before - one who is destined to change Sara's future forever But finding love isn't the same as finding happiness - as Sara and Jack soon find out In post-war America chance meetings aren't always as they seem and people's choices can often have profound repercussions Sara and Jack find they are subject to forces beyond their control and that their destinies are formed by more than just circumstance In this world of intrigue and emotional conflict Sara must fight to survive - against Jack as much as for him In this mesmerising tale of longing and betrayal The Pursuit of Happiness is a great tragic love story; a tale of divided loyalties decisive moral choices and the random workings of destiny"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Highland Fling by Katie Fforde (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "A fine romance? A wonderfully romantic novel from the No 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love A French Affair and The Perfect Match When 'Virtual Assistant' Jenny Porter's boyfriend accuses her of being impulsive soft-hearted and unbusinesslike dashing off to Scotland to sort out a failing mill for one of her clients may not be the best way of proving him wrong And promising to help run a mobile burger bar before she's even found her feet doesn't help matters When she finds herself determined to save the mill - whatever her client's wishes - it seems that Henry's accusations may have contained more than a grain of truth So when Jenny's awkward encounters with the abrasive but disconcertingly attractive Ross Grant develop into something more complicated - just as Henry arrives in Scotland to reclaim her - it's time for Jenny to make some decisions Should she do the sensible thing and follow Henry back to London? Or is her Highland adventure more than just a fling?"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Dance To The Music Of Time Volume 2 by Anthony Powell (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England It is unrivalled for its scope its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations Volume 2 contains the second three novels in the sequence At Lady Molly's; Casanova's Chinese Restaurant; The Kindly Ones"
Price: 14.49 |
| "To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Paperback, 1989)" |
| "'Shoot all the Bluejays you want if you can hit 'em but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird'Lawyer Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice But the weight of history will only tolerate so much A benchmark of classic American literature To Kill A Mockingbird approaches the highly sensitive topic of racism in 1930s America with humour warmth and compassion making it widely recognised as one of the best books of the twentieth century and in American literature"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureIn these stories lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface The past as Alice Munro's characters discover is made up not only of what is remembered but also what isn't The past is there just out of the picture but if memories haven't been savoured recalled in the mind and boxed away it's as if they have never been - until a moment when the pieces of the jigsaw re-form suddenly sometimes pleasurably but more often painfully Women look back at their young selves at first marriages made when they were naive and trusting at husbands and their difficult demanding little ways There is in this new collection an underlying heartbreak a sense of regret in her characters for what might have been for a fork in the road not taken a memory suppressed in an act of prudent emotional housekeeping But at the same time there is hope there are second chances - here are people who reinvent themselves seize life by the throat who have moved on and can dare to conjure up the hidden memories daring to go beyond what is remembered"
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| "Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "Darkness at Noon is set in an unnamed country ruled by a totalitarian government Rubashov once a powerful player in the regime finds the tables turned on him when he is arrested and tried for treason His reflections on his previous life and his experiences in prison form the heart of this moving and though-provoking masterpiece"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Peter Duck by Arthur Ransome (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "The Swallows and Amazons are sailing with Nancy and Peggy's Uncle Jim (better known as Captain Flint) when their hired deckhand tells them a tale of his younger days - a tale to set pulses racing and hopes shooting sky high Soon their boat is on its way to a Caribbean treasure hunt and they find themselves up against shark storm earthquake - and the vilest pirate who ever eavesdropped at a porthole"
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| "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "The Nolans lived in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn from 1902 until 1919 Their daughter Francie and their son Neely knew more than their fair share of the privations and suffering that were the lot of New York's poor A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is the story of Francie an imaginative alert resourceful child and of her family"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Red Dog by Louis de Bernieres (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "'In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner Karratha is a mining town a long way further north The landscape is extraordinary being composed of vast heaps of dark red earth and rock poking out of the never-ending bush I imagine that Mars must have a similar feel to it I went exploring and discovered the bronze statue to Red Dog outside the town of Dampier I felt straight away that I had to find out more about this splendid dog A few months later I returned to Western Australia and spent two glorious weeks driving around collecting Red Dog stories and visiting the places that he knew writing up the text as I went along I hope my cat never finds out that I have written a story to celebrate the life of a dog' Louis de Bernieres"
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| "Atonement by Ian McEwan (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "On the hottest day of the summer of 1935 thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house Watching her too is Robbie Turner who like Cecilia has recently come down from Cambridge By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed for ever as Briony commits a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "It is Charlotte&39;s first night at boarding school But when she wakes up the girl in the next bed is not the person who was sleeping there the evening before And the new building outside her window seems to have metamorphosed into a huge dark cedar tree! Somehow Charlotte has slipped back forty years"
Price: 5.49 |
| "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"
Price: 6.49 |
