In 1985 Jeanette Winterson\''s first novel, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit", was published. It was Jeanette\''s version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a ...
Jane Griffiths writes mysteriously resonant poems about home, exile and shifting frontiers in classically precise language. "Another Country" presents a selection from her first two collections, "A Grip on Thin Air" and "Icarus on Earth", as well as a whole collection of new work. Where the earlier books ...
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London in the year AD 2540 (632 A.F.—"After Ford"—in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that combine ...
Ancient Rome is the setting for the superb new novel from Robert Harris, author of the number one bestsellers Fatherland, Enigma and Archangel.Where else to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples. All along the coast, the Roman Empire’s richest citizens are relaxing in their ...
Drei ausergwönliche Frauen treffen eine außergewöhnliche Entscheidung Jackson, Mississippi, 1962: Die junge Skeeter ist frustriert. Nach dem Studium verbringt sie die Tage auf der elterlichen Baumwollfarm, als einzige ihrer Freundinnen ohne einen Ring am Finger. Sehr zum Missfallen der Mutter. Doch der ...
The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man’s search for safety of a man torn beween the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s McCarthyite America. Born in the U.S. and reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salomé. Making himself ...
An unexpectedly life-affirming novel about choosing to die, by National Book Award winner and bestselling author of THE FRIEND''Love, death, friendship, compassion &,amp, SO MUCH wisdom. I just adore Sigrid Nunez'' PAULA HAWKINSA woman visits a friend who is dying of cancer. Brilliant and stubborn, ...
It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler''''s 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin''''s most prestigious suburb. As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy ...
This is an extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss. The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn\''t the monster Conor\''s been expecting. He\''s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he\''s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, ...
''''Investigating other peoples tragedies and cock-ups and misfortunes was all he knew. He was used to being a voyeur, the outsider looking in, and nothing, but nothing, that anyone did surprised him any more. Yet despite everything hed seen and d one, inside Jackson there remained a belief a small, ...
An easy-to-use guide to grammar and punctuation with sections on nouns, pronouns, verbs, apostrophes, quotation marks and more. Clear explanations, fun illustrations and lively example sentences will help children develop their writing style and skills and there are short quizzes to test their knowledge. ...
