Critique of Criminal Reason
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It's 1793, and Hanno Stiffeniis is a magistrate in Prussia. He has been called to investigate a spate of murders which has reduced the city to a state of terror, under the watchful gaze of his mentor, Kant. Four people have died, and there is no sign of an end to the killing spree. Tension inside (...)
The Snake Stone
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Lefèvre, a French archaeologist, has arrived in Istanbul determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure. Yashim is commissioned to find out more about him. But when Lefèvre s mutilated body is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out that there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. Once (...)
Arlington Park
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Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb, is a place devoted to the profitable ordinariness of life. Amidst its leafy avenues and comfortable houses, its residents live out the dubious accomplishments of civilisation: material prosperity, personal freedom, and moral indifference. For all that, (...)
His Illegal Self
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A richly absorbing novel which can be relished for the beauties of its prose and the pertinence of its themes. Sunday TelegraphSeven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Harvard student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been raised in isolated privilege by his New (...)
Theft: A Love Story
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Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother Hugh, Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey s extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and (...)
Bliss
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Bliss was Peter Carey's astonishing first novel - a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in Hell. For the first time in his life, Harry Joy sees the world as it really is and takes up a notebook to explore and notate the (...)
My Life as a Fake
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In his remarkable new novel, the two-time Booker-winning author Peter Carey creates a creature as indelible as Frankenstein.In Melbourne in the late 1940s, a young conservative Australian poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. Choosing (...)
Collected Stories
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Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included such masterworks as Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories and this volume collects together all the stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes as well as three (...)
Grammars of Creation
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Are great works of art, literature and music 'creations' or 'inventions'? Does the mathematician 'invent' or 'discover'? Exploring an often neglected field, this book asks whether the current revolutions in our means of communication and in the biological sciences, may bring with them radical (...)
No Passion Spent
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This is an extraordinary collection of essays by one of this country's most exciting and dramatic thinkers.The essays span a considerable time. But they turn on a central, compelling theme. What is meant by reading a serious text at a time when theories of language and literature question the very (...)
Real Presences
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Real Presences argues that any understanding of the nature of language is based on the assumption of God's presence, and discusses the influence of this on literary criticism.
Language and Silence
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How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been manipulated to circumvent the truth at high levels or charged with vulgarity and imprecision by mass-consumer culture? How can fractured language adapt to the demands of more exact speech required by mathematics and symbolic (...)
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky
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George Steiner's Tolstoy or Dostoevsky has become a classic among scholars of Russian literature. An essay in poetic and philosophic criticism that bears mainly on the Russian masters, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky deals also with larger themes: the epic tradition extending from Homer to Tolstoy; the (...)
Europe
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Europe has been widely acclaimed as among the finest achievements of one of our greatest living writers (The Times). A personal appreciation, fuelled by five decades of journeying, this is Jan Morris at her best at once magisterial and particular, whimsical and profound. It is a matchless (...)
Fisher's Face
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Admiral of the Fleet Lord 'Jacky' Fisher (1841-1920) was one of the greatest naval reformers in history. He was also a colossal figure to contemporaries, both loved and loathed, a man of exceptional charm, presence and charisma. Since the late 1940s, Jan Morris has been haunted by his face - with (...)
Nelson
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A thrilling new appraisal of Horatio Nelson, the greatest practitioner of naval command the world has ever seen.What made Nelson so special? His peers included many able and pugnacious commanders, the Royal Navy was already the most successful professional fighting force of the age - so what (...)
Curtain Call
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The art of portraiture in poetry is traceable from the Latin poets and Chaucer via Goldsmith, Wordsworth and Browning, to the modern era of Rimbaud, Cavafy, Auden, Lowell and Hofmann. Poetry is an art form which encourages introspection, so it is a welcome break to find these poets looking outward, (...)
Billy's Rain
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The fifty poems in Billy's Rain chart the course of a love affair, now ended. Its complications, obsessions, evasions, secret joys and emotional pitfalls are explored with all the subtlety and irony of which Hugo Williams, among contemporary poets, is the acknowledged master. These are brilliant, (...)
Dock Leaves
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In these poems, Hugo Williams's subjects include the stings inflicted by school, family and love-life, and the exquisite (if qualified) solace afforded by their contemplation.
West End Final
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Hugo Williams s new collection summons the poet s past selves in order of appearance, as in an autobiography, showing in poems as clear as rock pools that the plain truth is only as plain as the props and make-up needed to stage it.
Dear Room
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Dear Room is a worthy successor to Billy's Rain (1999), whose preoccupations and occasions it continues and ramifies, charting the 'angles, signals, orders, murmurs, sighs' of love, separation and loss. With grave good humour, ruefully exact timing and a scruple reminiscent of Thomas Hardy, these (...)
Collected Poems
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In gathering four decades of work, Hugo Williams s Collected Poems brings back into print a vast body of material long since unavailable from his 1965 debut Symptoms of Loss to Self-Portrait with a Slide (1990) and including Writing Home (1985), described by Mick Imlah in the Independent on (...)
EL DECIMO CASO
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Siempre ha confiado en sus clientes… hasta su última defendida. El abogado defensor Harrison J. Walker, más conocido como Jaywalker, acaba de ser suspendido por usar tácticas creativas y por recibir en las escaleras del juzgado un acto de gratitud de una clienta acusada de ejercer la (...)
PESADILLAS
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Para atrapar a un asesino, tienes que pensar como uno. La agente del FBI Sophie Anderson había aprendido a penetrar en las mentes perturbadas de los asesinos en serie, a entender sus impulsos depravados y sus deseos enfermizos, a atraparlos antes de que aumentara el número de víctimas. Sophie se (...)
CENIZAS DEL PASADO
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Una bomba en Roma, un relampagueo de luz... el mundo del reportero gráfico Josh Ryder explotó, y a partir de ese momento nada volvería a ser igual. Conforme Josh va recuperándose, en su mente van apareciendo pensamientos que tienen la emoción, la intensidad y la familiaridad de los recuerdos, pero (...)
PASION A CIEGAS
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"Wes Skelly, jefe de las fuerzas especiales de la Marina estadounidense, se encontraba en Los Ángeles para cumplir una misión cuando aceptó una cita a ciegas con la preciosa Brittany Evans, cuñada de un amigo militar y madre soltera. A fin de cuentas, llevaba varios años enamorado en secreto de una (...)
Dos corazones en peligro
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El era el mejor hombre del mundo... en todos los sentidos. Se suponía que era algo muy sencillo, pero Kate Cooper no imaginaba lo que encontraría cuando fuera a buscar al aeropuerto al padrino de la boda de su hermana. ¿Cómo iba a pensar que Harry sería un hombre tan irresistible? Pero, sobre (...)
Un soltero y un bebé
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KIM ACUDIÓ A AYUDAR AL GUAPÍSIMO DOCTOR... ¡Y ACABÓ EN SU CAMA! El doctor Stuart Thorpe sabía muy bien qué hacer en caso de emergencia, pero cuidar a su sobrina de seis meses era algo muy diferente. Necesitaba ayuda, ¡y pronto! Kim Cooper, una guapísima fotógrafa de niños, era la solución (...)
LA PRINCESA FUGADA
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CARLYNE ESTABA DISPUESTA A HACER CUALQUIER COSA CON TAL DE ESCAPAR DE LA VIDA DE LA REALEZA... INCLUSO ENAMORARSE La princesa Carlyne Fortier había huido y necesitaba un trabajo urgentemente, por eso cuando vio aquel anuncio pidiendo una niñera pensó que era la respuesta sus oraciones. Así que se (...)
DESEO INMORTAL
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Tenían algo pendiente... una historia de amor que había comenzado hacía ya mucho tiempo. Hacía diez años que Shelly, la hermana de Sophie Beaumont, había elegido a un Canfield como marido y padre de sus hijos. Ahora Shelly estaba muerta, había fallecido junto a su marido, Peter, en un misterioso (...)
Floods
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The poems in Maurice Riordan's second collection are unusual in their recourse to the humanist belief in poetry as one of the forms of knowledge, imparting information about the observable world; but they also mix ancient wisdom (signs and wonders) with the open-ended science of the quantum age. (...)
Fivemiletown
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To say that [Fivemiletown] was one of the best books of the Eighties isn't enough: it is one of the best books I know, or for that matter, am capable of imagining: a corrosive and uproarious litany of bad sex, bad politics and bad religion.' Michael Hofmann
Selected Poems 1972-1990
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This book offers Tom Paulin's own choice from his first four collections of poems, A State of Justice, The Strange Museum, Liberty Tree and Fivemiletown, and from Seize the Fire, his version of Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound. It introduces the new reader to a body of work distinguished from the (...)
Bandanna
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Following his highly-praised Shining Brow (1993), which was also written as an opera libretto for the American composer Daron Aric Hagen, Paul Muldoon's Bandanna takes us into very different territory. Its action is set in a small town on the Mexican border; it includes illegal immigrants and (...)
Quoof
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These poems delight in a wily, mischievous, nonchalant negotiation between the affections and attachments of Muldoon's own childhood, family and place, and the ironic discriminations of a cool literary sensibility and historical awareness.' Times Literary Supplement
Why Brownlee Left
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Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He read English at Queen's University, Belfast, and published his first collection of poems, New Weather, in 1973. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and (...)
Lord Byron
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In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the (...)
Sky Nails
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Sky Nails offers a selection from Jamie McKendrick's first three collections of poetry, including The Marble Fly, which was both a Poetry Book Society Choice and winner of the 1997 Forward Prize for Best Collection.
The Sense of Movement
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The Sense of Movement, Thom Gunn's second collection, was first published in 1957.'This book . . . establishes Gunn as one of the few really interesting poets of his generation and promises greatly for the future.' Times Literary Supplement
Boss Cupid
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In some respects a sequel to The Man With Night Sweats, Boss Cupid is a memorialising of friends who have died, an anatomy of survival, and a self-portrait of the poet in age. The poems are written under the sign of Cupid, 'devious master of our bodies', but their intimacies are always heard (...)