"Marvellous trilogy... Fire Down Below brings the whole magical enterprise to a prosperous and happy conclusion." John Bayley, Guardian
"Golding's best and most accessible story since Lord of the Flies... What makes Rites of Passage such a pleasure, and such an artistic triumph, is the verve and buoyancy which Golding brings to pot…
A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; a sweet, gruesome gift is sent to the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings are haunted by the ghost of a young girl. This dazzling new collecti…
'Thank you spider' (George Smith to the spider that caused him to comfort marvellous Miss Martin) 'She's a tall girl with gold hair.' 'This is no missing person's bureau' 'She swings her hips w…
Written in 1938, Nausea remains one of the peaks of Sartre's achievement. It is a novel of the alienation of personality and the mystery of being, and presents us with the first full-length essay i…
Women in Love is about the relationship of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, who live in a Midland colliery town in the years before the first World War. Ursula fall in love with Birkin (a self-portr…
Malone Dies is the death-bed soliloquy of an old and helpless man, concerned to tell nothing but the truth. From his meagre recollections and resolutions and a few shreds of stories, the author of …
When Johann comes from Germany to make his home in Texas, he is awed at first by the vastness of the country; but from the moment the big, friendly stagecoach driver tousles his hair and calls him …
Gideon's Trumpet is a 1964 book by Anthony Lewis describing the story behind the 1963 landmark court case Gideon v. Wainwright , in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that criminal …
One Thousand One Night Stands is the extraordinary record of an exciting artist who "danced by the mile" and of the dancers and choreographers who had their forst exposure in Mr. Shawn's troupes : …