Anton Chekhov's Short Stories
In this collection of 20 short stories, the editor Richard Ford has selected his personal favourites of Chekhov’s work. Includes are “The Kiss”, “The Darling”, as well as lesser known tales such as “A Blunder”, “Hush” and “Champagne”.
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Inheritance by Christopher Paolini
It began with Eragon . . . It ends with Inheritance. Read More >
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohimil Hrabal
Hrabal was one of the foremost Czech writers of the 20th century, yet for much of his life was denied publication. He writes from experience – his prose captures the everyday language of the working man. In “Too Loud a Solitude”, we have the thoughts of a man who, for thirty-five years, has pulped books for the police state. Read More >
The Dream of the Celt
The Dream of the Celt explores the life of the Irish revolutionary Sir Roger Casement, who was executed for treason in 1916 after his involvement in the Easter Rising. Broad in scope, the novel will travel with its protagonist from Liverpool and Dublin to the Congo and Peru, where Casement worked as a British consul, and to London, where he ended his life in Pentonville jail. Read More >
Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues
James Fearnley has written a memoir titled Here Comes Everybody – The Story of the Pogues, which is to be published by Faber and Faber on May 3, 2012. Read More >
The Magic of Reality
‘Richard Dawkins and Dave McKean have created a dazzling celebration of our planet that will entertain and inform for years to come.’
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Anatomy of Disappearance
Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness that her strange death leaves behind in the Cairo apartment he shares with his father.
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The Psychopath Test
This is a story about madness. It all starts when journalist Jon Ronson is contacted by a leading neurologist. She and several colleagues have recently received a cryptically puzzling book in the mail, and Jon is challenged to solve the mystery behind it. As he searches for the answer, Jon soon finds himself, unexpectedly, on an utterly compelling and often unbelievable adventure into the world of madness. Read More >
