'A joy to read: fresh, funny, moving and always surprising' Kate Atkinson'Fresh, beguiling and laugh-out-loud funny on every page, this must be the most enjoyable Irish novel since Skippy Dies' GuardianThey'd sit around in a steamy kitchen circle like four mad witches, and dip ginger-snaps into Maxwell House until they went wobbly-warm, and take turns at saying, Jahear about so-and-so, Lord rest his soul, only thirty years old, poor creature?
Lorna Jowett delves into the distinctive stories and characters, including the Doctors themselves, their female and male companions, Captain Jack Harkness, Missy, Sarah Jane and her young comrades.
Publication of this exacting new translation of Tolstoy’s great Anna signifies a literary event of the first magnitude Tolstoy produced many drafts of Anna Karenina.
PRIX LITTERAIRE DE LA VILLE DE COLMAR 2010 Brave homme ou chevalier des causes perdues, sûr de ses compétences, de sa maîtrise de l’art des tragédies, Adnan avait l’espoir déraisonnable de libérer son peuple du fléau de l’esclavage.
Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction offers students, general readers, and teachers an accessible series of essays on select works by Chaucer that emphasizes how those works' deepest concerns and most fraught complexities remain urgently relevant in our present day.
The Highlanders Collection - Seven Rugged Historical Highland HeroesCLAIMED BY THE HIGHLAND WARRIOR by Michelle WillinghamBram MacKinloch has spent seven long, torturous years in captivity, with only three things to keep him alive: pure brute strength, a thirst for revenge and the memory of his pretty wife's face.
The definitive guide and a must-have collection of the best short science fiction and speculative fiction of 2019, showcasing brilliant talent and examining the cultural moment we live in, compiled by award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan.
'Absorbing'GUARDIAN'Magical'GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'Suspenseful' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Wildly inventive' LIZ MOOREJUNE 2025 REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKIn this dazzling debut novel, a young reclusive coder unearths the story of a lost Shanghai pencil company and a legacy of magic, espionage and family secrets that will alter the path of her life forever.
According to Russell Banks, North Carolina ex-pat Leon Rooke's work charts "e;what the short story form can and cannot do, for he works out there in the terra incognita mapping limits.
This book primarily focuses on the concept of forgetting, with particular emphasis on how we can trace the forgotten in contemporary life writing and memory texts.
In today's world, the need to eliminate natural and human-made disasters has been at the forefront of national and international socio-political agendas.
Diese Bergroman-Serie stillt die Sehnsucht des modernen Stadtbewohners nach einer Welt voller Liebe und Gefühle, nach Heimat und natürlichem Leben in einer verzaubernden Gebirgswelt.
Die Erlebnisse Ernst Jüngers vom Januar 1915 bis zum August 1918 an der Westfront spiegeln sich in den »Stahlgewittern« wieder: vom Grabenkrieg in der Champagne und der Schlacht bei Cambrai bis hin zu den Stoßtruppunternehmen in Flandern und zuletzt der Verleihung des Ordens Pour le mérite nach seiner Verwundung.
A former superstar of Andy Warhol’s Factory offers an intimate tale of sex, drugs, art, and motherhood, based on video recordingsThe Baby is not your average parenthood novel.
In the latest Domestic Diva mystery from New York Timesbestselling author, Krista Davis, entertaining maven Sophie Winston must cut to the core of another murder investigation when members of an international tour group begin dropping like flies all over Old Town, Virginia .
This book brings together Virginia Woolf's essays and book reviews on Russian literature; her unpublished reading notes on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Turgenev; and new and insightful scholarly commentary concerning her response to each of the major Russian writers.
Ein atmosphärischer Kriminalroman, der zwischen einem einsamen piemontesischen Bergdorf und der lärmenden Kino- und Politikmetropole Rom spielt: «Longo ist einer der fabelhaftesten Schriftsteller Italiens.
The philosophy of the book, which makes it quite distinct from many existing texts on the subject, is based on treating the concepts of measure and integration starting with the most general abstract setting and then introducing and studying the Lebesgue measure and integration on the real line as an important particular case.
Imogen and her sister Marin escape their cruel mother to attend a prestigious artists' retreat, but soon learn that living in a fairy tale requires sacrifices, whether it be art or love in this critically acclaimed debut novel.
The First World War changed the face of Europe - two empires (the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire) collapsed in its wake and as a result many of the boundaries of Europe were redrawn and new states were created.
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.
Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics.
Just over 200 years ago on a stormy night, a young woman conceived of what would become one of the most iconic images of science gone wrong, the story of Victor Frankenstein and his Creature.
