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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSHDorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age.
The year is 1916. Vincent is 16 years old and, with almost every able-bodied man away at the front, he is approaching manhood. In his relationships with the soldier son of one of his parent's servants and with the writer, Marcel Proust, he enters a world of love, both erotic and platonic.
This autobiography, taken from his diaries of 1991-94, interweaves Jarman's harrowing account of physical decline and failing eyesight with wonderfully poetic and detailed descriptions of the changing seasons of Dungeness, his meetings with Tennant, Freud and others, his thoughts on his sex life and his love for his boyfriend.
Believing he can escape retribution, Pinkie is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold, who is determined to uncover him. Few, if any, can match the originality of Brighton Rock, and of Pinkie - one of fiction's most unnerving and compelling villains.
'A smart, funny and well-written take-down of modern showbiz' ELIZABETH DAYCult heroine Zawe Ashton brings us a unique look at life, work and the absurdities of contemporary life. Zawe Ashton has been acting since she was six.
They attempt a normal life, but with their money drying up, he turns to the one thing he thinks he could be really good at - robbing banks. Hammered out on a prison typewriter, Cherry marks the arrival of a raw, bleakly hilarious, and surprisingly poignant voice straight from the dark heart of America.
*A Financial Times Book of the Year 2018**The New York Times Bestseller*`I took to New York life like a star shooting through the heavens...' Bill Cunningham's first love was fashion but the big city came a close second.
*SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES*'Hard-hitting, well written and informative' Martin Wolf, Financial TimesGlobal finance is a system that works for the few and against the many. We are told global finance is about wealth creation;
In My Struggle, Karl Ove Knausgaard examines with ruthless, unsparing rigour his life, his ambitions and frailties, his uncertainties and doubts, and his relationships with friends and exes, his wife and children, his mother and father.
**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018**'Daisy Johnson is a new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction.' Lauren GroffWords are important to Gretel, always have been. She hasn't seen her mother since the age of sixteen, though - almost a lifetime ago - and those memories have faded. and the creature in the water - a canal thief?
DC Simon Serrailler's last, devastating case was nearly the death of him and left him confronting a new reality Recovering on a remote Scottish island, his peace doesn't last long. In this gripping new Serrailler thriller, Simon's personal and professional lives intertwine in more complex and demanding ways than ever before.
T Singer is the new novel in English from one of Norway's most celebrated writers, proving `good literature makes us wiser about life, ourselves and other people' (Dagbladet). After a few years together, the relationship starts to falter, and as the couple is on the verge of separating a car accident prompts a dramatic change in Singer's life.
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018****A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND CRITICS' TOP BOOK OF 2018**'An unforgettable novel.' DAILY TELEGRAPH'More knowing about prison life [than Orange Is The New Black]...
Alan Querry, a successful property developer from the north of England, has two daughters: Vanessa, a philosopher who lives and teaches in Saratoga Springs, NY, and Helen, a record company executive based in London.
A celebrated essayist as well as novelist, the author presents articles, which he writes for his regular column in l'Espresso magazine, that explore many aspects of the modern world such as: a crisis in ideological values, a crisis in politics, and unbridled individualism.
'A brilliant and disturbing analysis, which should be read by anyone wishing to understand the political crisis currently engulfing the world' YUVAL NOAH HARARI, author of SAPIENS*SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE*The past is another country, the old saying goes.
'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you'll read this year' - Observer`The most outrageously entertaining novel of the year... A joy' - Philip HensherRoland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van.
'As compelling as it is tough, sidestepping piety in favour of clear-eyed infectious anger.' - Rebecca Nicolson Sunday TimesIrene Dalila Mwathi comes from Kenya with a brutally violent personal history.
The first steps into a turning point and a new life are made so easily and carelessly: the stories focus in on crucial moments of transition, often imperceptible to the protagonists. an old friend brings bad news to a dinner party;
Embarking on a journey of Japan to explore its dazzling food culture, the author and his family discover future food trends and meet a cast of food heroes, from a couple lavishing love on rotten fish, to a chef who literally sacrificed a limb in pursuit of the bowl of ramen.
** BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week **Shark Drunk is, in part, the tale of two men in a very small boat on the trail of a very big fish. Together, they tackle existential questions, experience the best and worst nature can throw at them, and explore the astonishing life teeming at the ocean's depths.
Travelling to Restoration Britain encourages us to reflect on the customs and practices of daily life - and this unique guide not only teaches us about the seventeenth century but makes us look with fresh eyes at the modern world.
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