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Elf Realm
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With The Low Road, Daniel Kirk has created a mystical world that will keep readers coming back for more. When Matt and his family move to a new neighborhood, they don’t realize they’ve inadvertently stumbled into the middle of massive upheaval in the fairy world. With (...)
Rutabaga the Adventure Chef
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In a world where there are dragons, wyverns, and haunted squash, you'd figure someone would have recipes for them, right? Rutabaga and his pet cooking pot, Pot, join young adventurers Winnifred, Manny, and Beef on a quest to defeat a dragon, find monsters to have for and/or to dinner, and save the (...)
Such a Long Journey
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'Such a Long Journey is set in (what was then) Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling the story of the peculiar way in which the conflict impinges on the lives of Gustad Noble, an ordinary man, and his family.It was the brilliant first (...)
Tales from Firozsha Baag
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'In these eleven intersecting stories, Rohinton Mistry reveals the rich, complex patterns of life inside a Bombay apartment building. The occupants from Jaakaylee, the ghost-seer, through Najami, the only owner of a refrigerator in Firozsha Baag, to Rustomji the Curmudgeon and Kersi, the boy (...)
The Faber Pocket Guide to Britten
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'John Bridcut, author of the acclaimed 'Britten's Children', will include significant fresh material which will make the book indispensable for Britten aficionados as well as for those who are discovering the composer's music for the first time. This guide is all about finding a way into Britten's (...)
Memoir
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'As wise and compelling a book as any of his elegiac and graceful novels. David MitchellThis is the story of John McGahern s childhood; of his mother s death, his father s anger and bafflement, and his own discovery of literature. Long before Frank McCourt made an entire industry out of twinkly (...)
Las cadenas del demonio
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Madrid, 1600-Madrid, 1681). España. Su padre era noble y escribano en el consejo de hacienda del rey. Se educó en el colegio imperial de los jesuitas y más tarde entró en las universidades de Alcalá y Salamanca. Tuvo una juventud turbulenta. En 1621 se negó a ser (...)
Family Matters
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'Nariman Vakeel is a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past. He lives with his two middle-aged step-children. When Nariman's illness is compunded by a broken ankle, he's forced to take up residence with his daughter Roxana, her husband (...)
The Unconsoled
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'Almost certainly a masterpiece.' Anita BrooknerRyder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - (...)
Creatures of the Earth
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'John McGahern is considered by many to be the most important Irish prose writer of the last fifty years. McGahern s short stories equal his finest novels, reflecting both the richness of the ordinary, and the extraordinary, in the lives of a variety of individuals: the jilted lover waiting with (...)