Category Archives: Accessories
Because We Say So
Because We Say So is Noam Chomsky`s essential counter punch to American hegemony In 1962, the eminent statesman Dean Acheson enunciated a principle that has dominated global politics ever since: that no legal issue arises when the United States responds to a challenge to its `power, position, and prestige`. In short, whatever the world may
Thus Bad Begins
Award-winning author Javier Marias weaves a darkly thrilling tale of love, betrayal and lives played out in the unhappy shadow of history As a young man, Juan de Vere takes a job that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Hi employer is Eduardo Muriel: a famous film director, sophisticated and discreet. Muriel`s
Innocent Erendira and Other Stories
Innocent Erendira and Other Stories is a collection of short stories from the Nobel Prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. `Erendira was bathing her grandmother when the wind of misfortune began to blow.` While her grotesque and demanding grandmother retires to
In Evil Hour
In Evil Hour is the thrilling story of a Colombian society menaced by rumour and paranoia by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. As a small South American town sweats under an oppressive heat, an unknown person creeps through the
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
`Magisterial – an outstanding book that shines a bright light one of the most important, interesting and under-studied cities in European history. A masterpiece.` Peter Frankopan`A wonderful new history of the Mediterranean from the fifth to eighth centuries through a lens focussed on Ravenna, gracefully and clearly written, which reconceptualises what was `East` and what
No One Writes to the Colonel
Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, tells a powerful tale of poverty and undying hope in his moving novel No One Writes to the Colonel. `The Colonel took the top off the coffee can and saw that there was only one spoonful
How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages
`Wonderfully written and characteristically brilliant` Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads `Elegant, readable …an impressive synthesis …Not many historians could have done it` – Jonathan Sumption, Spectator `Tyerman`s book is fascinating not just for what it has to tell us about the Crusades, but for the mirror it holds up to today`s religious extremism`
The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football
In the last two decades football in Britain has made the transition from a peripheral dying sport to the very centre of our popular culture, from an economic basket-case to a booming entertainment industry. What does it mean when football becomes so central to our private and political lives? Has it enriched us or impoverished
Living to Tell the Tale
In Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel Garcia Marquez – winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude – recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured. `My mother asked me to go with
Killer in the Rain
From the creased pages of 1930s pulp magazines Black Mask and Dime Detective come eight of Raymond Chandler`s finest short stories:KILLER IN THE RAIN, THE MAN WHO LIKED DOGS, THE CURTAIN, TRY THE GIRL, MANDARIN`S JADE, BAY CITY BLUES, THE LADY IN THE LAKE and NO CRIME IN THE MOUNTAINSSet against a Southern Californian backdrop,
The Diary of a Nobody
`I fail to see – because I do not happen to be a “Somebody” – why my diary should be not be interesting`Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambition, content with his clerkly lot. So why is he always in trouble with disagreeable tradesmen, impudent young clerks and wayward friends? And what is he
Masters of the Post
“Vivid, detailed, colourful …a first-class history …all sorts of delights leap out of these pages”. (“Daily Telegraph”). From the very first master of the post in 1512 to the vast network of today, the Royal Mail is an intrinsic part of everyday life in Britain. This book tells its extraordinary story in full. Whether describing
This Charming Man
`Everybody remembers where they were the day they heard that Paddy de Courcy was getting married`. But for four women in particular, the big news about the charismatic politician is especially momentous …Stylist Lola has every reason to be interested in who Paddy`s marrying – because she`s his girlfriend, yet she definitely isn`t the bride-to-be
Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle That Gave Birth to the Globe
This book was shortlisted for the Tony Lothian Prize One of the Telegraph`s `Best Books of 2014`. In November 1596 a woman signed a document which would nearly destroy the career of William Shakespeare …Who was the woman who played such an instrumental, yet little known, role in Shakespeare`s life? Never far from controversy when
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years
History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power — and has focused on the early years of her reign. But in 1583, when Elizabeth is fifty, there is relentless plotting among her courtiers — and still to come is the Spanish Armada and the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
The Separation
The Separation, Dinah Jefferies` stunning debut novel, is the heartbreaking tale of a family fractured by lies and one mother`s love reaching across the distance of years and continents. A country at war with itself, a family divided and betrayed, a bond that can never be broken…Malaya, 1955. Lydia Cartwright returns from visiting a sick
Black Milk: On Motherhood and Writing
Black Milk is the affecting and beautifully written memoir on motherhood and writing by Turkey`s bestselling female writer Elif Shafak, author of Honour, The Gaze and The Bastard of Istanbul which was long-listed for the Orange prize.Postpartum depression affects millions of new mothers every year, and- like most of its victims- Elif Shafak never expected
Collected Stories
Collected Stories brings together many of Gabriel Garcia Marquez`s spellbinding short stories, each brimming with a blend of the surreal, the magical, and the everyday that Nobel-Prize-winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Marquez is known for. Sweeping through crumbling towns, travelling fairs and windswept ports, Gabriel Garcia Marquez introduces a host of
Number 11
A novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. It`s about the legacy of war and the end of innocence. It`s about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won. It`s about how 140 characters can make fools of
Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Antarctic Seas
In the depths of Antarctic winter, hundreds of miles from land or rescue, a small fishing boat is swallowed by waves as high as houses. The captain is fatally slow to act, and then paralyzed by fear. The officers flee for their lives. Only the actions of Matt Lewis, a 23-year-old British marine biologist and
