They Do the Same Things Different There
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Robert Shearman visits worlds that are unsettling and strange. Sometimes they are just like ours except landlocked countries may disappear overnight, marriages to camels are the norm, and the dead turn into musical instruments. Sometimes they are quite alien where children carve their own tongues (...)
Contos do camiño e da rúa
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"Relatos magníficos que toman como unidade temática a oposición entre a vida da aldea e a vida da vila. Estes contos, publicados en 1932, destacan pola capacidade do autor para combinar de maneira maxistral a imaxinación creadora cunha técnica case cinematográfica para recrear ambientes, poñendo (...)
La Mano de Michael
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¿Te imaginas pasar unos días junto a Michael Jackson? Rafaela, valiéndose de sus amplios conocimientos sobre el mejor músico y bailarín del siglo XX-XXI y de una prolífi ca imaginación, lo ha conseguido ambientándolo en un lugar etéreo. Siguiendo el hilo de su biografía, da un repaso a los (...)
Serious Concerns
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'The D-day landings the fate of 2.5 million men, 3000 landing craft and the entire future of Europe depends on the right weather conditions on the English Channel on a single day. A team of Allied scientists is charged with agreeing on an accurate forecast five days in advance. But is it even (...)
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 (...)
A Fine Balance
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'Set in the mid-1970s in India, A Fine Balance tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances - and their fates - become (...)
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 Hell of it All
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'He fixed his gaze on her and said, "Are you scamming me?"
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 (...)
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 (...)