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| "The Music of Chance" |
| "'By the time Nashe understood what was happening to him he was past the point of wanting it to end 'Paul Auster fuses Samuel Beckett Franz Kafka and The Brothers Grimm in this brilliant and unsettling parable Following the death of his father Jim Nashe takes to the open road in pursuit of a 'life of freedom' But as the money runs out he finds that his sense of disillusionment has only been compounded by his year on the road However after picking up Pozzi a hitchhiking gambler Nashe finds himself drawn into a dangerous game of high-stakes poker with two eccentric and reclusive millionaires 'A rare experience of contemporary fiction at its most thrilling' New Statesman"
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| "Waiting for Godot : A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "Nothing happens nobody comes nobody goes it&39;s awful&39; This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre de Babylone in 1953 He went on to predict that the play would in time represent the most important premiere to be staged in Paris for forty years Nobody acquainted with Beckett&39;s masterly black comedy would now question this prescient recognition of a classic of twentieth-century literature"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett" |
| "The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre from 1955 to 1984 It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio'He believes in the cadence the comma the bite of word on reality whatever else he believes; and his devotion to them he makes clear is a sufficient focus for the reader's attention In the modern history of literature he is a unique moral figure not a dreamer of rose-gardens but a cultivator of what will grow in the waste land who can make us see the exhilarating design that thorns and yucca share with whatever will grow anywhere' - Hugh KennerContents Waiting for Godot Endgame Happy Days All That Fall Acts Without Words Krapp's Last Tape Roughs for the Theatre Embers Roughs for the Radio Words and Music Cascando Play Film The Old Tune Come and Go Eh Joe Breath Not I That Time Footfalls Ghost Triobut the clouds A Piece of Monologue Rockaby Ohio Impromptu Quad Catastrophe Nacht und Traume What Where"
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| Housekeeping |
| "From the Orange Prize winning author of HomeAcclaimed on publication as a contemporary classic Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille orphansgrowing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of AmericaAbandoned by a succession of relatives the sisters find themselves in the care of Sylvie the remote and enigmatic sister of their dead mother Steeped in imagery of the bleak wintry landscape around them the sisters' struggle towards adulthood is powerfully portrayed in a novel about loss loneliness and transience'I love and have lived with this book it holds a unique and quiet place among the masterpieces of 20th century American fiction' Paul Bailey'I found myself reading slowly than more slowly--this is not a novel to be hurried through for every sentence is a delight' Doris Lessing"
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| "The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty" |
| "Following the end of the First World War Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary With all those around him becoming soldiers of a different kind however it proves to be the defining decision of his life when having witnessed the murder of a fellow RIC policeman he is wrongly accused of identifying the executioners With a sentence of death passed over him he is forced to flee Sligo his friends family and beloved girl Viv What follows is the story of this flight his subsequent wanderings and the haunting pull of home that always afflicts him Tender witty troubling and tragic The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty tells the secret history of a lost man"
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| "An Expert in Murder" |
| "An Expert in Murder is the first in a new series that features Golden Age crime writer Josephine Tey as its lead character placing her in the richly-peopled world of 1930s theatre which formed the other half of her writing life It's March 1934 and Tey is travelling from Scotland to London to celebrate what should be the triumphant final week of her celebrated play Richard of Bordeaux However a seemingly senseless murder puts her reputation and even her life under threat An Expert in Murder is both a tribute to one of the most enduringly popular writers of crime and an atmospheric detective novel in its own right"
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| "The Animator's Survival Kit (Hardcover, 2009)" |
| "This is the one book every animator should have on their desk - whether they work in film computer graphics or video game animation Richard Williams is the pre-eminent figure in motion picture animation and he has forged a reputation as an outstanding teacher as well as a top practitioner In recent years the Academy Award for animation effects has been virtually guaranteed to go to a student of Richard Williams whether the movie in question is Toy Story or Star Wars The Phantom MenaceThis book is based on master-classes Richard Williams has been giving to professional and would-be animators around the world over the years Companies such as Industrial Light and Magic Disney and Dreamworks send their animators to study at Williams&39; feet as he is generally regarded as the link between the &39;golden Age&39; of Disney animation and the new-style computer animation exemplified by Toy Story"
Price: 31.99 |
| "The Animator's Survival Kit (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Animation is one of the hottest and most creative areas of film-making today During his more than 40 years in the business Richard Williams has been one of the true innovators and serves as the link between the golden age of animation by hand and the new computer animation successesIn this book based on his sold-out Animation Masterclass in the United States and across Europe Williams provides the underlying principles of animation that very animator - from beginner to expert classic animator to computer animation whiz - needsUsing hundreds of drawings Williams distills the secrets of the masters into a working system in order to create a book that has become the standard work on all forms of animation for professionals students and fansThis new expanded edition includes more on animal action invention and realism with sophisticated animation examples"
Price: 23.49 |
| "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" |
| "A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey Oscar's sweet but disastrously overweight He dreams of becoming the next J R R Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love With dazzling energy and insight Diaz immerses us in the tumultuous lives of Oscar; his runaway sister Lola; their beautiful mother Belicia; and in the family's uproarious journey from the Dominican Republic to the US and back'The Best Novel of the 21st Century to Date' - BBC Culture"
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| "War Horse" |
| "I want you to do yourself proud Joey You go and drive those Germans back where they've come from and then come home to me At the outbreak of World War one Joey young Albert's beloved horse is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France Caught up in enemy fire fate takes Joey on an extraordinary odyssey serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no man's land But Albert cannot forget Joey and still not old enough to enlist he embarks on a treacherous mission to find him and bring him home Nick Stafford's adaptation for the stage of the celebrated novel by the Children's Laureate (2003-05) Michael Morpurgo leads us on a gripping journey through history War Horse premiered at the National Theatre London in October 2007"
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| "Wise Blood" |
| "Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor's first novel is the story of Hazel Motes who released from the armed services returns to the evangelical Deep South There he begins a private battle against the religiosity of the community and in particular against Asa Hawkes the 'blind' preacher and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter In desperation Hazel founds his own religion 'The Church without Christ' and this extraordinary narrative moves towards its savage and macabre resolution 'A literary talent that has about it the uniqueness of greatness' Sunday Telegraph'No other major American writer of our century has constructed a fictional world so energetically and forthrightly charged by religious investigation' The New Yorker'A genius' New York Times"
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| "Zorba the Greek" |
| "Set before the start of the First World War this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance But when he arrives he meets Alexis Zorba a middle-aged Greek man with a zest for life Zorba has had a family and many lovers has fought in the Balkan wars has lived and loved - he is a simple but deep man who lives every moment fully and without shame As their friendship develops the Englishman is gradually won over transformed and inspired along with the readerZorba the Greek Nikos Kazantzakis' most popular and enduring novel has its origins in the author's own experiences in the Peleponnesus in the 1920s His swashbuckling hero has legions of fans across the world and his adventures are as exhilarating now as they were on first publication in the 1950s"
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| Endgame |
| "Originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett Endgame was given its first London performance at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957HAMM Clov!CLOV YesHAMM Nature has forgotten usCLOV There's no more natureHAMM No more nature! You exaggerateCLOV In the vicinityHAMM But we breathe we change! We lose our hair our teeth! Our bloom! Our ideals!CLOV Then she hasn't forgotten us"
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| "That Face" |
| "I can't take care of you anymore I can't take it It's like an endless boxing matchMia is at boarding school She has access to drugs They are Martha's Henry is preparing for art college He has access to alcohol From Martha Martha controls their lives Martha is their motherThat Face premiered at the Royal Court Theatre London in April 2007 and won the TMA Award 2007 for Best New Play Polly Stenham received both the Charles Wintour Award 2007 and the Critics' Circle Award 2008 for Most Promising Playwright"
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| "Waiting for Godot : A Tragicomedy in Two Acts" |
| "Subtitled 'A tragicomedy in two Acts' and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens twice' En attendant Godot was first performed at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953 It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett and Waiting for Godot opened at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955 'Go and see Waiting for Godot At the worst you will discover a curiosity a four-leaved clover a black tulip; at the best something that will securely lodge in a corner of your mind for as long as you live' Harold Hobson 7 August 1955'I told him that if by Godot I had meant God I would have said God and not Godot This seemed to disappoint him greatly' Samuel Beckett 1955"
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| "Nocturnes : Five Stories of Music and Nightfall" |
| "From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me GoIn Nocturnes Kazuo Ishiguro explores the ideas of love music and the passing of time From the piazzas of Italy to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood hotel the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars all of them at some moment of reckoning Gentle intimate and witty this quintet is marked by a haunting theme the struggle to keep alive a sense of life's romance even as one gets older relationships founder and youthful hope recedes"
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| "Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot" |
| "As a poet editor and essayist T S Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry This selection which was made by Eliot himself includes many of his most celebrated works including The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock and The Waste LandOther volumes in this series Auden Betjemen Plath Hughes and Yeats"
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| "Gerald Finzi : An English Composer" |
| "The music of Gerald Finzi whose popularity has recently enjoyed a great resurgence is rooted in the tradition of Elgar Parry Vaughan Williams and those composers of the early part of this century for whom song writing was a principal means of expressionWhile retaining a general picture of the modest quintessentially English composer Stephen Banfield's stylish witty and acute biography reveals Finzi as a more complex and engaged figure than he is often given credit for Finzi's ambiguous relationship with his craft his affluent and intellectually stimulating family background and his Jewishness lend a mysterious and troubled quality to his life and work and ultimately invite us to question the notions of Englishness he represents'In this outstanding study Stephen Banfield remarks that although Finzi's output and influence were those of a minor composer something about his profile the way he went about his job the breadth of his thought the depths of his personality and its impact on others in short his individuality always suggested something greater Thus it is that Finzi with a relatively small output now receives a 571-page biography in which the author brings to bear the full weight and authority of analytical scholarship Is he worth it? Banfield compels one to answer yes' Michael Kennedy BBC Music Magazine'Stephen Banfield's long-needed and doubly welcome book does all that a good life-and-works study should do he earns the most heartfelt gratitude So it should be added do his publishers' Musical Times"
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| "The Lacuna: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "From Pulitzer Prize nominee and award winning author of Homeland The Poisonwood Bible and Flight Behaviour The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s America in the shadow of Senator McCarthy Born in America and raised in Mexico Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother Salome When he starts work in the household of Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo - where the Bolshevik leader Lev Trotsky is also being harboured as a political exile - he inadvertently casts his lot with art communism and revolution A compulsive diarist he records and relates his colourful experiences of life with Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo and Trotsky in the midst of the Mexican revolution A violent upheaval sends him back to America; but political winds continue to throw him between north and south in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach - the lacuna - between truth and public presumption"
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| "Death of an Expert Witness by P. D. James (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "From PD James one of the masters of British crime fiction comes the seventh Adam Dalgliesh novel set against the bleak fens of East Anglia Death of An Expert Witness is a classic work of detective fiction packed with forensic detail intrigue and suspense When a young girl is found murdered in a field the scientific examination of the exhibits is just a routine job for the staff of Hoggatt's forensic science laboratory But nothing could have prepared them for the brutal death of one of their own When the senior biologist is found dead in his laboratory Commander Dalgliesh is called to the bleak fens of East Anglia where the murderer is lying in wait to strike again With a wealth of potential suspects and cautious forensic scientists quick to pass on the blame Dalgliesh becomes embroiled in the complicated passions that lie hidden beneath the calm surface of the laboratory From PD James the bestselling author of Death Comes To Pemberley Children of Men and Death in Holy Orders comes an atmospheric and thrilling work of detective fiction set in a forensic laboratory on the bleak fens of East Anglia This novel was adapted into an ITV television series in 1983 and starred Roy Marsden Geoffrey Palmer and Ray Brooks"
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| "The Lightning Tree" |
| "This is a story of two young people who fall in love - and then life gets in the way Ursula is part dreamer part radical in the making Raised in a matriarchal household by a CND-loving activist she is impatient to begin a life of adventure But this is Newcastle in the mid-80s where girls are getting permed and their dreams go no further than copping off down the Bigg Market Then Ursula meets Jerry a class warrior from the wrong side of town intellectually hungry erudite and ambitious It is a meeting of bodies souls minds and ideals Keen to pursue the road less travelled Ursula heads to India while Jerry goes to Oxford and the promise of politics and power As Ursula searches for answers she is soon drifting - and Jerry loses touch What happens to young love when it is tested by real life? The Lightning Tree is a lyrical and funny novel for fans of The Line of Beauty and The Marriage Plot"
Price: 8.49 |
| Foster |
| "A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland without knowing when she will return home In the strangers' house she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care And then a secret is revealed and suddenly she realizes how fragile her idyll is Winner of the Davy Byrnes Memorial Prize Foster is now published in a revised and expanded version Beautiful sad and eerie it is a story of astonishing emotional depth showcasing Claire Keegan's great accomplishment and talent"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Never Let Me Go" |
| "The top ten bestseller from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the DayShortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeIn one of the most acclaimed novels of recent years Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England Narrated by Kathy now thirty-one Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world A story of love friendship and memory Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Wolf Border" |
| "For almost a decade Rachel Caine has turned her back on home kept distant by family disputes and her work monitoring wolves on an Idaho reservation But now summoned by the eccentric Earl of Annerdale and his controversial scheme to reintroduce the Grey Wolf to the English countryside she is back in the peat and wet light of the Lake DistrictThe earl's project harks back to an ancient idyll of untamed British wilderness - though Rachel must contend with modern-day concessions to health and safety public outrage and political gain - and the return of the Grey after hundreds of years coincides with her own regeneration impending motherhood and reconciliation with her estranged familyThe Wolf Border investigates the fundamental nature of wilderness and wildness both animal and human It seeks to understand the most obsessive aspects of humanity sex love and conflict; the desire to find answers to the question of our existence; those complex systems that govern the most superior creature on earth"
Price: 7.99 |
| "A Pale View of Hills" |
| "From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me GoIn his highly acclaimed debut Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko a Japanese woman now living alone in England dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter Retreating into the past she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer night in Nagasaki when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war But then as she recalls her strange friendship with Sachiko - a wealthy woman reduced to vagrancy - the memories take on a disturbing cast"
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| "Ariel (Poetry Firsts Collection) Hardcover" |
| "The poems in Sylvia Plath&39;s Ariel including many of her best-known such as &39;Lady Lazarus&39; &39;Daddy&39; &39;Edge&39; and &39;Paralytic&39; were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath&39;s first book The Colossus and her death in 1963 &39;If the poems are despairing vengeful and destructive they are at the same time tender open to things and also unusually clever sardonic hardminded They are works of great artistic purity and despite all the nihilism great generosity the book is a major literary event&39; A Alvarez in the ObserverThis beautifully designed edition forms part of a series with five other cherished poets including Wendy Cope Don Paterson Philip Larkin Simon Armitage and Alice Oswald"
Price: 7.99 |
| Dart |
| "Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census she creates a narrative of the river tracking its life from source to sea The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher a ferryman a sewage worker and milk worker a forester swimmers and canoeists - and are interlinked with historic and mythic voices drowned voices dreaming voices and marginal notes which act as markers along the way"
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| Spies |
| "In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single random bombsite But the two boys start to suspect all is not as it seems when one day Keith announces a disconcerting discovery the Germans have infiltrated his own family And when the secret underground world they have dreamed up emerges from the shadows they find themselves engulfed in mysteries far deeper and more painful than they had bargained forWinner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award"
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| "The Bell Jar" |
| "I was supposed to be having the time of my life When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953 she is elated believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts Esther&39;s life begins to slide out of control She finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a suicide attempt as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take women&39;s aspirations seriously The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath&39;s only novel was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas The novel is partially based on Plath&39;s own life and descent into mental illness and has become a modern classic The Bell Jar has been celebrated for its darkly funny and razor sharp portrait of 1950s society and has sold millions of copies worldwide"
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| "Welcome to Lagos" |
| "Five runaways ride the bus from Bayelsa to a better life in a megacityThey are unlikely allies -- a private a housewife an officer a militant and a young girl They share a need for escape and a dream for the future Soon they will also share a burden none of them expected but for now the five sit quietly with their hopes as the billboards fly past and shout Welcome to Lagos"
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