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Love and Longing in Bombay
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Set in contemporary India, Love and Longing in Bombay confirms Vikram Chandra as one of today's most exciting young writers. In five haunting tales he paints a remarkable picture of Bombay - its ghosts, its passions, its feuds, its mysteries - while exploring timeless questions of the human (...)
The Donor
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Will Marion has two perfect kidneys.His daughters aren't so lucky. Question is: which one should he save? Will's 47. His wife bailed out when the twins were in nappies and hasn't been seen since. He coped OK by himself at first, giving Georgie and Kay all the love he could, working in a boring (...)
The Country Life
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Stella Benson sets off for Hilltop, a tiny Sussex village housing a family that is somewhat larger than life. Her hopes for the Maddens may be high, but her station among them, as au pair to their irascible son Martin - is undeniably low. What could possibly have driven her to leave her home, (...)
Love in a Life
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Love in a Life, Andrew Motion's sixth volume of poetry, marks a conspicuous development in the work of the founder of the modern Narrative School. Directness and a new colloquialism are wedded to Motion's distinctive obliquities in a volume where the idea of marriage governs the architecture of (...)
My Life as Emperor
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Opening with a child s ascension to the Chinese throne, Su Tong s latest novel charts the complexities of courtly life, as a boy of few talents is suddenly thrust into a position of power. An extraordinary and chilling dramatisation of the dark side of nation-building, it is also a deft exploration (...)
El gasto público en los imperios Ibéricos, S. XVIII
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Revisión de los egresos fiscales en los Estados patrimoniales de Antiguo Régimen durante la época moderna que enriquece la explicación de la estructura, el comportamiento y la evolución de los egresos de los reales erarios en las distintas áreas que formaron parte constitutiva del el Imperio (...)
Born Yesterday
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One of Britain's most fearless writers takes on real news stories in the most ambitious and innovative novel of the year.
A Certain Justice
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An Adam Dalgliesh MysteryVenetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in her career as a criminal lawyer. But Regina v. Ashe initiates events both frightening and unpredictable (...)
The Black Book
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The Black Book is Orhan Pamuk's tour de force, a stunning tapestry of Middle Eastern and Islamic culture which confirmed his reputation as a writer of international stature. Richly atmospheric and Rabelaisian in scope, it is a labyrinthine novel suffused with the sights, sounds and scents of (...)
The Faber Pocket Guide to Opera
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Rupert Christiansen was born in London and educated at King's College, Cambridge. After further study as a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University, he has written several books including Prima Donna, Romantic Affinities, Paris Babylon, The Visitors and Arthur Hugh Clough. In 1997, he was elected (...)
Euripides' Alcestis
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Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in his place. Ted Hughes's version goes beyond translation to an inspired rethinking of the story in terms of his own vision of human suffering.Although he started working on (...)
All Names Have Been Changed
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Set in the Dublin of the mid 1980s - gripped by a heroin epidemic and light years from the post EU economic boom of today - All Names Have Been Changed tells the story of a small group of mature students on a writing course at Trinity, who become dangerously obsessed with their tutor, a notorious (...)
Diseño y ergonomía para poblaciones especiales
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Ante la gran diversidad de usuarios y sus múltiples necesidades se introduce en el tema de las poblaciones especiales haciendo y respondiendo preguntas ¿qué necesitan las poblaciones especiales?, ¿qué proponen los diseñadores?, así se analizan los aspectos psicosociales de la discapacidad, las (...)
Meeting the British
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Meeting the British is Paul Muldoon's fifth collection of poems. They range from an account of the first recorded case of germ wafare, though a meditation on a bar of soap, to a sequence of monologues spoken by some of the famous, or infamous, inhabitants of '7, Middagh Street,', New York, on (...)
Diseño e Historia
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"En este libro, Editorial Designio, en combinación con la Fundación Historia del Diseño, ofrece una notable reflexión de la Historia del Diseño desde la óptica de reconocidos autores que unen su conocimiento y experiencia profesional para analizar el desarrollo histórico de las profesiones del (...)
99 things Parents wish they knew before...Having
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Teenagers today are exposed to more STD's and peer pressure than ever before. Today's examples of "role" models are slim to none so as parents, we need to know what is going on in order to guide our children and help them cope with the pressures and influences that surround them.
Selected Poems of Edward Thomas
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When Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 his poems were largely unpublished. But in the years since his death, his work has come to be cherished for its rare, sustained vision of the natural world and as a mirror of England (Walter de la Mare). This edition, drawn from Thomas (...)
The Damned Utd
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In 1974 the brilliant and controversial Brian Clough made perhaps his most eccentric decision: he accepted the Leeds United manager s job. As successor to Don Revie, his bitter adversary, he was to last only 44 days. In one of the most acclaimed novels of this or any other year, David Peace takes (...)
The New Life
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'I read a book one day, and my whole life was changed.'So begins The New Life, Orhan Pamuk's fabulous road novel about a young student who yearns for the life promised by a dangerously magical book. He falls in love, abandons his studies, turns his back on home and family, and embarks on restless (...)