Bøker i British Literature Series-serien

Rather than trying to compel or convince the reader to accept his beliefs, the author describes how religion functions in the modern world.

Nicholas Mosley has been concerned with the central paradox of writing: if by definition fiction is untrue and biography never complete, is there a form that will enable a writer to get at the truth of a life? Here, he scrutinises his life and work, examining them as an observer, fascinated by the interaction between reality and the written word.

Offers an examination of political life that revolves around Anthony Greville, a conservative member of Parliament who is tormented by his ambivalence toward his career, by his religious doubts and by his adulterous affair with Natalia Jones, the enigmatic wife of a colleague.

Describes the contradictions of public and private life through the eyes of the British PM's daughter.

Jason is a scriptwriter working on a film about Masada - the fortress where a thousand Jews killed themselves rather than be taken prisoner by the Romans in 73 AD. A dispute about the film and a crisis aboard the plane forces Jason to look at his life, his art and the world around him in several different ways at once.

Following his anthologies Man + Dog (2009) and Man + Doctor (2012), Nick Wadley has, with our encouragement, compiled this collection of drawings around the theme of Man + Table.

Mosley's Rainbow People is a masterful,powerful book about borders, politics, andhope.

Stories and Essays of Mina Loy is the first book-length volume of Mina Loy's narrative writings and critical work ever published. This volume brings together her short fiction, as well as hybrid works that include modernized fairy tales, a Socratic dialogue, and a ballet. Loy's narratives address issues such as abortion and poverty, and what she called "e;the sex war"e; is an abiding theme throughout. Stories and Essays of Mina Loy also contains dramatic works that parody the bravado and misogyny of Futurism and demonstrate Loy's early, effective use of absurdist technique. Essays and commentaries on aesthetics, historical events, and religion complete this beguiling collection, cementing Mina Loy's place as one of the great writers of the twentieth century.

The tenth child of a fantasist mother and an absent millionaire, Matty Crickholme is growinginto a sexually bewildered, neurotic young man. Through the collected paraphernalia of anunconventional childhood, Alex Kovacs creates a quirky, kaleidoscopic rumination on family andhow it shapes us—for better or worse.Sexology follows the strange, wonderful, fluxional world of the Crickholmes, wherenonconformism is celebrated, siblings form autonomous republics, and eccentricity reignssupreme. The Crickholme siblings youthful exploits take them on myriad paths: a hermeticpsychic, a dog trainer, an ice cream purveyoress, a missing person. Between memories,factoids, letters, and old photographs, Matty investigates how their offbeat rearing made themthe adults they became, and how fantasy and convention collide.Alex Kovacs’s writings have received acclaim for their invention, wit, and astute observations ofour absurd world. Sexology brings this intellectual playfulness to the story of the Crickholmeswith a unique prose that evokes the complex emotional landscapes of W.G. Sebald’s novels andthe sometimes-gentle, sometimes-devastating style of Susanna Clarke. The result is anentrancing, incomparable medley.