Category Archives: Caribbean
The Old Man and the Sea
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway`s magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is a unique and timeless
Prayers for the Stolen
`Now we make you ugly,` my mother said. `The best thing you can be in Mexico is an ugly girl.` On the mountainside in rural Mexico where Ladydi lives, being a girl is dangerous. Especially a pretty one. If the Narcos hear there is a pretty girl on the mountain, they steal her. So when
Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming`s Jamaica
The top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller. โ€Completely fascinating, authoritative and intriguing.โ€ (William Boyd). โ€The big bang of Bond books…Beautiful, brilliant.โ€ (Tony Parsons). Goldeneye: the story of Ian Fleming in Jamaica and the creation of British national icon, James Bond. From 1946 until the end of his life, Ian Fleming lived for two months of every
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN`S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016. A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK. โ€Memoirs of a Geisha meets The Piano Teacher, in the best way.โ€ (InStyle). Amaterasu Takahashi has spent her life grieving for her daughter Yuko and grandson Hideo, who were victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.
The Executioner`s Song
In the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row – and could confidently expect his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment. In America, no one had been executed for ten years. But Gary Gilmore wanted
Booking Passage: We Irish & Americans
In February of 1970, Thomas Lynch, aged twenty-one, bought a one-way ticket to Ireland. He landed in the townland of Moveen, at the edge of the ocean in West Clare, outside the thatched cottage that his great-grandfather had left late in the nineteenth century with a one-way ticket to America. Tommy and Nora Lynch, Thomas
American Pastoral
In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century`s promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth`s protagonist is Seymour `Swede` Levov – a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father`s Newark
Clown
Watch Quentin Blake`s Clown, a major new TV animation narrated by Helena Bonham-Carter, this Christmas on Channel 4. The perfect gift for sharing with friends and family all year long. When a box of toys is thrown away, a determined clown sets out to find a new loving home for himself and his friends. Told
Sister Carrie
This is a landmark in American literature, presented in its complete and unexpurgated version. Dreiser`s unsparing story of a country girl`s rise to riches as the mistress of a wealthy man marked the beginning of the naturalist movement in America. Both its subject matter and Dreiser`s objective, nonmoralizing approach made it highly controversial, and only
Entangled
As mankind faces its deadliest battle, two young women must unite to prevent the forces of evil destroying the world as we know it. But theirs is no ordinary alliance, for these two women live at opposite ends of history, until fate brings them together and their destinies are inextricably intertwined. Leoni, a troubled teen
Perfidia
โ€There has never been a writer like James Ellroy.โ€ (Telegraph). Los Angeles, December 6, 1941. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. War fever and race hate grip the city and the internment of Japanese Americans begins. When a Japanese family is found brutally murdered, three men and one woman
Golden Parasol: A Daughter`s Memoir of Burma
At the time of Burma`s military coup in 1962, Wendy Law-Yone was fifteen. A year later, her father Ed Law-Yone, daredevil proprietor of The Nation newspaper, was arrested and his newspaper shut down. Eventually, Wendy was herself briefly imprisoned before managing to escape the country. Ed would spend five years as a political prisoner. But
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
Some thing`s are just sitting there, minding their own business and waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone`. Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the `Fury`? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to `Out-With`
Live and Let Die: James Bond 007
`You start to die the moment you are born` Live and Let Die, Ian Fleming`s second 007 novel, takes Bond from Harlem to Jamaica in a frenzied hunt for the brilliant deadly gangster Mr Big and his macabre network of associates.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
When the mysterious and beautiful young widow Helen Graham becomes the new tenant at Wildfell Hall rumours immediately begin to swirl around her. As her neighbour Gilbert Markham comes to discover, Helen has painful secrets buried in her past that even his love for her cannot easily overcome.
Neuland
Dori`s father has gone travelling in South America and, suffering from some kind of breakdown, following the death of his wife, he goes missing. Dori sets out to find him, leaving his wife and young son at home in Israel. Inbar is escaping from her life – from the grief that she can`t shake after
Falconer
Ezekiel Farragut is a college professor, a drug-addict and a murderer. Locked in Falconer State Penitentiary, he struggles through tormenting visits from his wife, the burden of memory and guilt, and the brutal monotony of his surroundings to retain his humanity, eventually finding the possibility of redemption through an affair with a fellow prisoner. Considered
Who Discovered America?
Building on the startling revelations of his bestseller 1421, iconoclastic historian Gavin Menzies calls into question our understanding of how the American continents were settled, shedding new light on the well-known โ€discoveriesโ€ of European explorers, including Christopher Columbus. In Who Discovered America? he combines meticulous research and an adventurer`s spirit to reveal astounding new evidence
Jungle of Stone
THE โ€MASTERFUL CHRONICLEโ€* OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE LEGENDARY LOST CIVILIZATION OF THE MAYA–AN โ€ADVENTURE TALE THAT MAKES INDIANA JONES LOOK TAMEโ€In 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world`s most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens
A Book of American Martyrs
Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences. Gus Voorhees is a pioneer in the advancement of women`s reproductive rights and a controversial abortion provider in the American Midwest. One morning as he arrives at his clinic, he is ambushed by a hardline Christian, Luther Dunphy, and shot dead. The
