A Bit off the Map and Other Stories
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'Angus Wilson s first volume of short stories, The Wrong Set was first published in 1949 to immense critical acclaim. The collection is a brilliantly funny exposure of the protective devices with which people seek to mask deep-laid egotism. There is the wallowing in self-adulation on the part of (...)
Such Darling Dodos
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'Written in the 1950s, the eight stories collected here are brilliantly of their time: the decade of rubber plants, espresso bars and skiffle, of Suez, Teddy Boys and Angry Young Men.With compassion and deadly accuracy, Angus Wilson charts the scandals and secrets of the respectable middle classes (...)
The White War
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In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire, hoping to seize its lost territories of Trieste and Tyrol. The result was one of the most hopeless and senseless modern wars and one that inspired great cruelty and destruction. Nearly three-quarters of a million Italians and half as (...)
Angel with Two Face
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Inspector Archie Penrose invites Josephine Tey down to his family home in Cornwall so she can recover from the traumatic events depicted in An Expert in Murder. Josephine welcomes the opportunity, especially since Archie's home is near the famous Minack open-air theatre perched on the cliffs (...)
Winterland
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'Michael, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an ideal world of sex through his two stock athletes, Colonel Grimshaw and Mavis Carmichael, while he bungles every phase of his entanglement with an older woman who has the misfortune to fall in love with him. But his insensitivity to this love (...)
The Hell of it All
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'He fixed his gaze on her and said, "Are you scamming me?"
The Bradshaw Variations
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'Since leaving his job to look after Alexa, his eight year old daughter, Thomas Bradshaw has found the structure of his daily piano practice and the study of musical form brings a nourishment to these difficult middle years. His pursuit of a more artistic way of life shocks and irritates his (...)
Euripides' Helen
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Seven years have passed since the end of the Trojan War and Menelaus, King of Sparta and husband to Helen, is making his slow and painful way home. When his ship is wrecked on the coast of Egypt he stumbles upon what seems to be his wife lingering outside the royal palace. But if this is the real (...)
How to Paint a Dead Man
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'Italy in the early 1960s: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have made him an enigma, both to strangers and those closest to him. He begins his last life painting, using the same objects he has painted obsessively for his entire career - a small group of bottles. In Cumbria (...)
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 (...)
Four Quartets
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'As a poet, editor and essayist, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth century poetry. This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, includes many of his most celebrated works, including The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land.Other volumes in this series: (...)
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot
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''Each year Eliot's presence reasserts itself at a deeper level, to an audience that is surprised to find itself more chastened, more astonished, more humble.' Ted HughesPoet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of (...)
Collected Poems 1909-1962
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'SPOOKY TROUBLE!LORD & LADY SPIFFING want lots of ghosts - to thrill the tourists.OLI wants just one ghost to win a bet with his sister.SKIPJACK doesn t want any ghosts - but thanks to the Spookoscope, he s got one.IF the ghosts aren t sorted by sundown there ll be trouble!'Very Funny.' Jeremy (...)
Trust Me
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'No Karen said. "I ve been waiting for you."When Bobby and Lloyd decide to rob local restaurant owner Lou Starr s home in the night, they don t reckon on being propositioned about an even bigger scam by Lou s so-called girlfriend Karen. But after yet another bad decision in her life Karen has been (...)
Quiver
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'Kate McCall s husband has been killed by her teenage son, Luke, in a tragic bow-hunting accident. In the aftermath, Jack, a charismatic but troubled ex-con from Kate s past, shows up. When Luke takes off on his own for their rural Michigan cabin, Kate and Jack follow, but they re not the only ones (...)
Tales of Ballycumbe
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Here, now, listen, I ll tell you a tale . . .Daffodils are in bloom as dawn breaks over the foothills of Ballycumber, ushering in hope for a new day and stirring the ghosts of a past fraught with sorrow, anguish and emptiness. In search of advice, young Evans Stafford calls at the home of friend (...)
The Leavetaking
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'The worlds of business, politics and crime collide in contemporary Dublin when two men with the same name, from the same family, die on the same night - one death is a gangland murder, the other, apparently, a road accident. Was it a coincidence? That's the official version of events. But when a (...)
The Pornographer
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' Couples argue about a lot of things money, seeing old partners, football, having children, looking after children…and football. Clothes, washing up…and football. If you think about the relationships you ve had, football is probably the cause of more arguments than anything else. From TV s (...)
That They May Face the Rising Sun
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'A day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who has returned to Ireland after a year's sabbatical in London where he married an American divorcee. As a result he now faces certain dismissal by the school authorities. Moving from the earliest memories of both the man (...)
Never Let Me Go
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A clear frontrunner to be the year s most extraordinary novel . . . Not since The Remains of the Day has Ishiguro written about wasted lives with such finely gauged forlornness.' Sunday TimesIn one of the most acclaimed and original novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a (...)