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Roberto Bolaño

A Little Lumpen Novelita

"An exemplary literary rebel." -Sarah Kerr, The New York Review of Books"[Bolaño] demonstrates . . . what is possible in fiction-which is to say, anything." -William Deresiewicz, The N…

Kae Tempest

Hold Your Own

Hold Your Own, Kae Tempest's first full-length poetry collection for Picador is an ambitious, multi-voiced work based around the mythical figure of Tiresias.This four-part work follows him through his tra…

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Lasst uns sorgen, lasst uns wachen BWV 213 (1733)

Malcolm Bradbury

To the Hermitage

To the Hermitage tells two tales: a contemporary story of our narrator, a novelist, who has been invited to Stockholm and then to Russia to take part in what is enigmatically referred to as the Diderot Pr…

Adolf Julius Merkl,

Die Lehre von der Rechtskraft entwickelt aus dem Rechtsbegriff

Adolf Julius Merkl's Lehre von der Rechtskraft is an undiscovered classic of legal theory and a vital text of the Vienna School of Jurisprudence, founded by Hans Kelsen. At its core is the dynamic concept…

Creation Through Evolution

Written and revised over the past three years, Creation through Evolution contains ten new essays that directly respond to the most common philosophical and theological objections put forward by Catholics…

Oliver Sacks

The Mind's Eye

How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted?In The Mind's Eye , Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the…

Malcolm Bradbury

Eating People is Wrong

Stuart Treece, a forty-year-old professor and head of English, now rather set in his ways (Hannibal Lecter is not on his syllabus), is made to feel somewhat alien by his encounters with a younger generati…

V. S. Naipaul

Letters Between a Father and Son

In 1950, V. S. Naipaul travelled from Trinidad to England to take up a place at Oxford University. Over the next few years, letters passed back and forth between Naipaul and his family - particularly his …

V. S. Naipaul

Miguel Street

Winner of the Somerset Maugham PrizeMiguel Street , V.S. Naipaul's first work of fiction, is set in a derelict corner of Port of Spain, Trinidad, during World War Two and is narrated by an unnamed, precoc…

V. S. Naipaul

The Loss of El Dorado

At the centre of this extraordinary historical narrative are two linked themes: the grinding down of the aborigines during the long rivalries of the quest for El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold; and,…

Jonathan Raban

Waxwings

Longlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize At the turn of the millennium, two immigrants are drawn to the United States by their own versions of the American Dream.For Tom Janeway - a Hungarian-born English…

V. S. Naipaul

India: A Million Mutinies Now

The third book in V.S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy, with a preface by the author. India: A Million Mutinies Now is a truly perceptive work whose insights continue to inform travellers of all genera…

Carmen Bugan

Burying the Typewriter

'A modern classic' - The Sunday Times'This story starts roughly in the 1970s, a few years after I was born, about the time when I began to have memories and my father's codename was already long establish…

Richard House

The Kills

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013. Shortlisted for the South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2014.Book of the Year in the Guardian , Spectator , Independent and Daily Mail .The Kills is an epic novel of crime…

John Banville

The Untouchable

Inspired by the true story of Anthony Blunt and the Cambridge Five spy ring, The Untouchable is a beautifully crafted novel by John Banville, author of the Booker Prize-winning The Sea.Victor Maskell has …

John Banville

Ghosts

Ghosts opens with a shipwreck, leaving a party of sightseers temporarily marooned on an island. The stranded castaways make their way towards the refuge of the isle's reclusive savant; but the big isolate…

V. S. Naipaul

Guerrillas

Set on a troubled Caribbean island - where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria - Guerrillas is a novel of colonialism and revolution. A whit…

Alex Ross

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the YearTime magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Was…