Gaza is being bombed. Rashid – a bright, unemployed twenty-seven-year-old, who has stayed up smoking grass watching it happen – wakes the next day to hear that he’s got the escape route he’s been waiting for: a scholarship to London. His...
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In his preface, Davis sheds light on the origins of The Bar Sinister. "In the dog world, the original of the bull-terrier in the story is known as Edgewood Cold Steel and to his intimates as 'Kid'. His father was Lord Minto, a thoroughbred...
A hurricane sweeps off the Gulf of Mexico and in, the back-country of Alabama, assembles a passenger jet out of old bean-cans and junkyard waste. An eccentric mathematician – last heard of investigating the physics of free will and ranting about...
Introduction
One does not have to read very much of To the Lighthouse before one realizes that Woolf has chosen here a very particular style, a way of telling the story which exerts a strange and compelling effect upon the reader. In this lecture...
Forced by circumstance to seek refuge with Fleur, her young daughter, in the remote abbey of Saint Marie-de-la-Mer, Juliette reinvents herself as Soeur Auguste under the tutelage of the kindly Abbess. But times are changing: the murder of Henri...
The stunning conclusion to Edward Whittemore’s Jerusalem Quartet: The remarkable story of an Israeli agent who infiltrates Syrian intelligence, keying victory in the Six Day War.
Yossi is an ideal agent for the Mossad—an Iraqi Jew, an...
Trapped by a desperate hunted man, Susan — at any cost to herself — had to warn the children. Could she find the strength, the calm she’d need to outwit...
Only a fool would risk his life to please a mob of crazy peons. But only a coward could refuse the challenge of this greatest bull of...
They had a secret power that would astound Jerry — who had sent them to ease his breaking...
Alfie the Doorstep Cat - star of the smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller - is back in brand new ALFIE story for a younger readership.
Alfie is everyone’s favourite cat. A big ball of grey fur who changes the lives of every family he meets....