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Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster

From award-winning novelist Paul Auster comes the graphic adaptation of his deeply beloved series, The New York Trilogy, a postmodern take on detective and noir fiction.In 1994,…

Desert Royal - Jean Sasson

In Princess, readers were shocked by Sultana''s revelations about life in Saudi Arabia''s royal family. Royal women live as virtual prisoners, surrounded by unimaginable wealth…

The Historical Jesus: A Guide for the Perplexed - Dr Helen K. Bond

The introduction to this new guide sets out the sources (Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian), noting the problems connected with them, paying particular attention to the nature of…

Why do women write more letters than they post? - Darian Leader

Why do men tend to keep love letters in files along with their other correspondence, whereas women keep them with their clothes? And if a letter is written but not posted, at…

The Invention of Love - Tom Stoppard

It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories, however, are dramatically if confusedly alive. The river which flows through…

Electric Light - Seamus Heaney

Electric Light travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, revisiting the poet''s childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient…

The Gun and the Olive Branch - David Hirst

''An epic tale . . . told relentlessly well. If you want to read a serious account of the price of Zionism, and a sobering review of Israel''s new role as conqueror and occupier,…

The Ultras - Eoin McNamee

Taking his cue from the true-life story of Special Forces Operative Captain Robert Nairac, Eoin McNamee has in The Ultras weaved a compelling fictional narrative through the…

Schrader on Schrader - Schrader Paul

Schrader on Schrader is an essential set of dialogues with one of the most genuinely fascinating and uncompromising writer-directors in American film.Raised as a Calvinist and…

Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life - Professor Robert Spaethling

What was Mozart really like? Wild? Sublime? Responsible? Fun-loving? Bright? Foul-mouthed? Reading these sparkling new translations of Mozart''s letters, we learn in his own words…

Tenderwire - Claire Kilroy

**SOLDIER SAILOR - THE NEW NOVEL BY CLAIRE KILROY - IS AVAILABLE NOW**''Captivating'' Irish Times''Revealing and elegant'' Financial Times''Masterful.'' Sunday TribuneEva Tyne, an…

The Boy Who Kicked Pigs - Tom Baker

''Grotesque and depraved and above all very funny.'' Ardal O''HanlonRobert Caligari is a thoroughly evil thirteen-year-old who gets his kicks from kicking pigs. Afer a humiliating…

Bring the Noise - Simon Reynolds

From Morrissey and Nick Cave to The Streets and Kanye West, this is the book that explores the links between hip-hop and rock. Reynolds has focused on two strands: white…

Julius Winsome - Donovan Gerard

Julius Winsome lives in a cabin in the hunting heartland of the Maine woods, with only his books and his dog for company. That is until the morning he finds that his dog has been…

Contact! - Jan Morris

In Contact! Jan turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she made, across the globe and though the decades. As a series of vignettes, some only a few lines long,…