In this luminous novel—winner of Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize—John Berger relates the story of “G.,” a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of this century. With profound compassion, Berger...
The protagonist of this novel is a 15-year-old North London schoolboy called Gabriel. He is forced to come to terms with a new life, and use his gift for painting in order to make sense of his world, once the equilibrium of the family has been...
The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House… the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age… a beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and...
After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2—Richard Powers — returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of...
The ‘bonkers’ book that ‘it is impossible not to be moved by’ DAILY MAIL
A joyful and hilarious tale of some very spirited septuagenarians as they overcome innumerable obstacles to save their beloved mutt from a heartless exterminator in...