Narrative theme: Politics

A taster of some of the brightest and best new novels from the rising stars of fiction.

SHADOW CHASEA high-ranking Chinese official has arranged to defect to the United States and reveal war crimes his country has perpetrated throughout Asia.

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In Ireland in 1826 millions knew only famine, oppression and degradation.

This is a vivid and memorable novel set in Dublin, 1916, during the Easter Rebellion and the bitter years which followed.

It is 1649.

The world of Sir Lewis Eliot draws to a close in Last Things, the eleventh and final novel in C.

Winner of 1954 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.

Eine Zeitreisende zieht durch die Geschichte der Menschheit, begleitet vom toten Alexander dem Großen.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

A tense and brilliantly dramatic short story from the bestselling author of the Throne of the Caesars Series.

Kangaroo is a semi-autobiographical novel by D.

From the author of Next Year In Havana, a Reese Witherspoon's Book Club pick!

From the author of Next Year In Havana, a Reese Witherspoon's Book Club pick!

Originally written as a "e;boys' novel"e;, Kidnapped has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Seamus Heaney.

In the spring of a certain year, not far from the close of the nineteenth century, when the political relations between the United States and Great Britain became so strained that careful observers on both sides of the Atlantic were forced to the belief that a serious break in these relations might be looked for at any time, the fishing schooner Eliza Drum sailed from a port in Maine for the banks of Newfoundland.

We is an earth shattering dystopian novel that ruffled the feathers of the ruling elite of Russia when it was smuggled out of the country and published in English in 1924.

Set in northern Italy in 1628, during the terrible, oppressive years under Spanish rule, it is sometimes seen as a veiled attack on Austria, which controlled the region at the time the novel was written.

This novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during the period 1830-32.

The book is set in early 20th century India in the estate of the rich Bengali noble Nikhil.

Boston, 1802, Lawyer Macleod is a man full of hate, a dangerous man.

From the author of Next Year In Havana, a Reese Witherspoon's Book Club pick!

James Playfair must break the Union blockade of Charleston, South Carolina to trade supplies for cotton and more importantly to rescue a man being held prisoner by the Confederates.

In The Days of Queen Victoria is the story of Queen Victoria, the woman who became queen at eighteen and for nearly 64 years wore the crown of Great Britain.

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Some may worry that a Hydrax Gamble could happen; some that it already has.

The Heroic Slave was Frederick Douglass'' only piece of fiction.

The Heroic Slave was Frederick Douglass' only piece of fiction.

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most famous and influential novels of the 20th century.

A timeless masterpiece of love, revolution, and the indomitable human spirit against the backdrop of poverty-stricken 19th-century Paris.

Animal Farm is George Orwell's brilliant political satire and allegorical fable about the corrupting effects of power.

The Tempest is Shakespeare's masterpiece of magical effects, redemptive romance, poetry and politics.

Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman's glorious poetry collection, first published in 1855, which he revised and expanded throughout his lifetime.

In Burmese Days, George Orwell, one of the most famous writers in the English language, draws on his own experience of living and working in Burma to write an unflinching novel about the dark side of imperialism.

In Kafka's powerful and disturbing novel, an innocent man is arrested and repeatedly interrogated for a crime that is never ever explained.

A biting satire of the Age of Enlightenment, Voltaire's classic tale Candide, or the Optimist remains a bestseller over two centuries after its initial publication.

George Bernard Shaw is one of the most famous and celebrated Irish playwrights and this new collection brings together the very best of his witty and entertaining comedies in one volume; Pygmalion, Major Barbara and Androcles and the Lion.

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, swashbuckling novel about a young boy who is forced to go to sea and who is then caught up in high drama, daring adventure and political intrigue.

As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century and the recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced.

Anton Chekhov was one of the world's most accomplished short-story writers and this collection displays the breadth and variety of his genius.

Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the hearts and minds of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic book is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on American politics.

In his first full-length play, G nter Grass takes Bertolt Brecht, the foremost modern German dramatist, as his key figure.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;WESTERNS COLLECTION: The Breckinridge Elkins Series, The Pike Bearfield Series, The Buckner Jeopardy Grimes Stories & Other Wild West Tales"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Dieses eBook: "Der Liebesteufel" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE (Political Dystopia)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

It Can't Happen Here is a dystopian political novel.