But the bullets miss their target: Alexei Volkovoy - Volk for short. Volk must choose which powerful man he will betray in order to escape with the painting and with his life. Volk's Game announces Al
The Diaries chart the author's swings of fortune, the loneliness of the emigre, his encounters with a luminous range of personalities from music, theatre, art and literature, and the search for love a
Julius Winsome lives in a cabin in the hunting heartland of the Maine woods, with only his books and his dog for company. Narrated by the unforgettable voice of Julius himself - at once compassionate,
Of the countries that remained neutral during the Second World War, none was more controversial than Ireland, with accusations of betrayal and hypocrisy poisoning the media.
Extending the concerns of Dart and written over a period of several years, these poems combine abrupt honesty with an exuberant rhetorical confidence, at times recalling the oral and anonymous traditi
Burma is ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists and sanctions. Drawing on his own family's stories and his years of hands-on political experience working with the UN, the author ha
The poems in Crocodiles & Obelisks explore different ways of remembering, with astonishing shifts of perspective and style, of time and place. The collection is stalked by a cast of unreconciled and g
Engaging above all with the matter of England in the here and now Simon Armitage focuses his attention on the conflicts within society today. The result is his wittiest, most alertly combative and imp
A collection of poems that takes care and consideration in examining the often brutal arena of human relations, concluding with a mercurial and affecting sequence about a marriage, which takes, as its
America is a nation whose sense of righteousness goes hand in hand with paranoia. Greil Marcus explores the influence of culture and politics on the American psyche - and the idealism, horror, eloquen
The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. and Ptolemy Philandelphus finds his wife ousted by his reptillian sister, who wants to marry him herself . But with the glory of the Ptolemies at its height after Egypt
Istanbul, 1838. In his European palace on the Bosphorus, Sultan Mahmud II, architect of Ottoman reform, is dying and the city swirls with rumours and alarms.The unexpected arrival of a French archaeol
Written from a teenage child's point of view, Motion captures the pathos and puzzlement of childhood with great clarity of expression and freshness of memory.
Interweaving discussion of the music he wrote for and about children with interviews with the boys whom Britten befriended, Bridcut explores the influence of these unique friendships - notably with th
Drawing from her own vivid reminiscences and those of ex-students, documents from the Moscow Conservatoire and extensive interviews with Rostropovich himself , Elizabeth Wilson's book sets out to defi
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. He succeeded to a baronetcy in 1798, and as Lord Byron he was soon to become the most famous poet of his age - with the p
Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold's 'land of dreams', the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief. Nagra, whose
While her bullying and unfaithful boyfriend, Dave, is reporting in Iraq, Ann seizes the opportunity to change the locks and take up with her infinitely more considerate colleague Patrick. But Patrick
A selection of Shakespeare's poems and dramatic speeches, along with the author's accompanying essay. It intends to show how Shakespeare's language unites in its sinews and substance the full range of
For after his defeat, Odoursin went underground, waiting until the time was right to unleash his new army and annihilate Vahlzi for good. Filled with grief and rage, Skipper and Sam are determined t
Offers a selection from the author's numerous translations, together with (versions of Paul Eluard, or of Yves Bonnefoy), and excerpts from essays and letters. This title selects his versions from a v
With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 197
In 1972, a break-in was foiled at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel in Washington DC. Within days a connection had been made with the White House and Preside
Presents six, sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic, stories about Americans colliding with remote and often perilous parts of the world. The stories tell about: two journalists in wartime Afghanistan
Following the death of his father, Jim Nashe takes to the open road. But there he picks up Pozzi, a hitchhiking gambler, and is drawn into a dangerous game of high-stakes poker with two eccentric and
Escaping their lives in Manhattan, former college buddies Matt and Davis take off to the Netherlands and find themselves thrown into a bizarre love triangle with a beautiful young prostitute named Ch
Go behind the curtain of one of the film world’s least understood art forms with the visual architect of 007 Who can forget the eloquence, sex appeal, and sheer luck of James Bond? The bombshells may
A dazzling portrait of the life and times of James Hogg. Electric Shepherd is a likeness of James Hogg, Scottish Borderer and international literary star, who shared an epoch and an environment with
'A terrifying and unhappy book...' The GuardianThis astounding self-portrait covering the whole of Shostakovich's life (1906-1975) was prepared in collaboration with the distinguished Soviet musicolog
Islamists are poised to win the local elections and Ka is falling in love with the beautiful and radiant Ipek, now recently divorced. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, he finds himself
Now fully updated, Lynch on Lynch describes the career of a cinematic genius who has continued to astonish film-goers with the lovely and life-affirming The Straight Story and the luxurious dread of t
Set during the late eighties in a plush Detroit suburb, this darkly comic play chronicles the class clash between an affluent couple with social aspirations and the neighbour they grudgingly invite in
This second collection of Martin Crimp's work includes the plays Attempts on Her Life, The Misanthrope, No One Sees the Video and The Country. 'Crimp writes with extraordinary precision . . . The ou
Noel Boyle needs a new life and he has come to Dublin to find it. Ablaze with stories of lives lived and lost, The Swing of Things is an exhilarating and beautiful meditation on the idea of escape and
Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Carr's lyrical and timeless play tells the story of Hester Swane, an Irish traveller with a deep and unearthly connection to her land.
Best friends and flatmates Foxy-T and Ruji-Babes run the E-Z Call Telephone and Internet shop in the heart of Bangladeshi East London. Fresh from Feltham Young Offenders Centre and with a taste for th
A volume containing the stories in "The Fat Man in History" and "War Crimes", together with three other stories not previously published in book form. The author won the 1988 Booker Prize for "Oscar a
and Rabelais with his heirs - the great novelists.In the light of their wisdom this book examines some of the great situations of our time. the testaments, the betrayed testaments - of Europe, of art,
Young widow Alice Aron arrives on a Mediterranean island with her two sons to visit the childhood home of her late husband. Within hours one of the boys has been kidnapped and a hopeless and inert bur
