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Professional slackers and best friends KJ and Jasper spend their days talking music and Bukowski outside back of a coffee shop in Vermont. Seventeen-year-old Evan is eking out his summer working at cafe. When he meets two young men he is irresistibly drawn to their world of magic mushrooms, philosophical musings and great-bands that never-were.

Records the experiences and attitudes of women war workers in one particular factory just outside Malmesbury, Wiltshire specializing in the making of radar equipment.

'The most compelling of anthologies, the most leisurely, and the most complete.' ObserverFirst published in 1923, the conception of de la Mare's collection of poetry and prose 'for the young of all ages' had been in the poet's mind for some time.

'After I had run away from school, no one knew what to do with me...'Born in Shanghai in 1915, son of a wealthy rubber merchant, Denton Welch was dispatched to an English boarding school after his mother's death.

In 1945 Britain emerged from war triumphant. On July 26, after Labour won a landslide election victory, Churchill resigned, Attlee became Prime Minister. Drawing on material from Cabinet and other Whitehall records, this title argues that what followed was an era of mistaken strategies and costly consequences.

Describes various phases of the author's life, including orphan-like upbringing by female relatives in the heart of Midlothian; national service; and Cambridge and the start of his career in London, which was to culminate in his founding editorship of the "London Review of Books".

Dark Horses is the vade mecum and memoir of an eminent literary critic and teacher, who also edited several of the most influential literary magazines of his time, and who founded the most influential literary journal of our time, the London Review of Books.

Henry Cockburn (1779-1854) is a leading Scottish Whig of the nineteenth century and author of the classic "Memorials of His Time". This title contains rich digressions on the outlook of the Scottish Whigs, on the world of the Edinburgh review, and on the Tory world-picture by which Cockburn and his friends were confronted.

On the 28th May, 1943, the author was parachuted, together with Captain Stuart and a small party, to the highlands of Montenegro. These two officers commanded the first British military mission to Tito's headquarters. This account of the breaking of the enemy ring is a study in partisan war.

Chronicles the decline and fall of the Fascist regime in Italy leading to the dramatic downfall of Mussolini himself in July, 1943. This title traces Mussolini's return to power as head of the puppet satellite Nazi republic in the North after his abduction from internment by SS paratroopers in September, and then follows the dictator's fate.

The book's subjects include Poe, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Stevenson, Conrad, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Robert Frost, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Norman Mailer and Saul Bellow. 'Karl Miller has brought off a notable double: he has written an academic book which deserves popular success.' Alan Massie

A pocket Guide looks at all Bach's music, sacred and secular, and explores why he speaks so profoundly to our age about both the spiritual and the sensual in life.

'An absorbing portrait of an extinct type of Englishman.' Sunday Times 'A scintillating, pointillist portrait of the beginnings of a career and a marriage.' Times Harold Nicolson - great diplomat, diarist and raconteur - moved in numerous worlds and knew an extraordinary number of distinguished people.

If ideas are more dangerous than material things, what happens when ideas become matter?Near a crossroad in the country town of Smetham, a retired philosopher is felled by what appears to be a huge lion.

Examines the nature and development of the values of Victorian Liberalism. This book traces their origins in the Romantic movement, the industrial revolution and the general European Liberal awakening of the mid-nineteenth century.

The Breaking of Bumbo was first published fifty years ago when the author was twenty-two. it continues to read freshly.'This bitter, ironical and very clever first novel paints a devastating portrait of an upper-class misfit, half clown, half Hamlet .

Prince Charming is the story of Christopher Logue: one of our great poets and literary mavericks, part of a circle that included Kenneth Tynan and Richard Ingrams. There are enough characters among the less well-known - from the author's father to the Portobello Road street-trader 'Minky' Warren - to stock a lively novel.

'The most fully researched and fully revealing life of this particular Lord Chancellor that we are ever likely to get.' David Cannadine, London Review of BooksF.E. The youngest Lord Chancellor since Judge Jeffreys, he engaged in some of the most bitter political battles of the age: Ulster, trade union reform, the House of Lords.

Modelling is a boring, tiring, badly paid profession. Yet out of them we have created an image of a woman dressed only for seduction who probably sleeps with the artist, cooks for him, and inspires his best work. In ten chapters, the author covers various aspects of this much misunderstood activity.

In this brilliant reconstruction of life in England between the two world wars, Ronald Blythe highlights a number of key episodes and personalities which typify the flavour of those two extraordinary decades.

Presents the true confession of the loves of the author's life, beginning in the 1930s when he was at the summit of fame having published "The Invisible Man", "Kipps", and "The War of the Worlds".

Why is Mozart the best known and most popular of all the great Western classical composers? It also provides all you need to listen to and enjoy Mozart's music, and will also introduce a new generation of concert-goers and record-listeners to his life and key works, from opera to symphony, concerto to song.

From these diaries and the more personal 'diary letters' sent by Sir Alexander to his wife when he travelled abroad, David Dilks has produced a book of lasting importance. On 15 August 1945, with the announcement of the Japanese surrender, Cadogan wrote: ' .

'No-one has approached the vast, continuing corpus of detective fiction in quite this way before.' Financial Times What is it that has always made the detective such a popular figure in fiction?

Relates the discovery of The Holy Grail in a country church and of the struggle between good and evil forces to possess it. This title includes accounts of black magic.

Made of the First Matter from the Garden of Eden, the Stone's power grows with the experience of the user and can heal all sicknesses, allow the user to travel in time, in addition to seeing the minds of others.

Alex Jennings is a boy with a problem. His mum's sent him away to boarding school because his father, the most famously failed explorer in the history of the Cusp, has escaped from hospital again, yelling 'squiggles'.

It is partly the fascination of following a well-known and well-loved character through this vales of tears - however much he may suppose he has hidden himself behind the personality of Peter Simple, however unknown and unloved he may imagine himself to be, there can be few readers of Peter Simple who will not ''identify'' with him.

East End My Cradle is a classic, still as fresh, vivid and compulsively readable as when Willy Goldman first penned it seventy years ago.

A rich collection of essays which explore the paradoxes of the Irish political and social identity. As a follow up to Modern Ireland, R.F. Foster addresses the turbulent history of Ireland, providing his thoughts on the contemporary issues surrounding the country up to the early 1990s.