 | Original Bliss
Release Date: January 25, 2000"Kennedy is a world class writer."--The New York Times Book ReviewA brilliant American debut from one of Scotland's most acclaimed writers, named by Granta as one of the Twenty Best Young British Novelists.Emotionally numb, crippled with insomnia, and caught in a frightening, abusive marriage, Helen Brindle believes that God has recently left her. She spends her days performing banal domestic chores in front of a blaring television. On the BBC one day she watches a self-help guru expound on, among other things, the "rules" of masturbation and...
 |  | Scorpius (Ian Fleming's James Bond)
Release Date: May 23, 1988| Series: Ian Fleming's James Bond The dead body of a young girl found floating in the Thames leads Bond into the haunts of a secret sect which is connected with Scorpius, the biggest arms dealer to terrorists worldwide; Bond soon finds himself in the middle of a deadly game of terrorism and arms supplies. John Gardner is author of six previous James Bond titles, including "Ice Breaker", "Licence Renewed" and "Nobody Lives For Ever", as well as other thrillers such as "The Nostrodamus Traitor", "The Garden of Weapons" and "The Quiet Dogs". --This text refers to an a...
|  | Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sausages
Publication Date: February 21, 2011Polly is a real estate solicitor. She is also losing her mind. Someone keeps drinking her coffee. And talking to her clients. And doing her job. And when she goes to the dry cleaner's to pick up her dress for the party, it's not there. Not the dress - the dry cleaner's.And then there are the chickens who think they are people. Something strange is definitely going on - and it's going to take more than a magical ring to sort it out.From one of the funniest voices in comic fiction today comes a hilarious tale of pigs and parallel worlds. ...
|  | A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters
Release Date: October 7, 1989This is, in short, a complete, unsettling, and frequently exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of Noah's ark and ending with a sneak preview of heaven!From the Trade Paperback edition. ...
|  | The Unbelonging
Publication Date: August 1993This is a moving story of self-discovery and survival. It tells of an 11 year old girl, who finds herself in a land of strangers with hers the only black face in a sea of white, after being summoned to Britain by the father she has never known. ...
|  | Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man: A Novel
Release Date: July 1, 2008 Amelia Lockwood doesn't mean to sound greedy. She's got a fabulous career in television, a posh apartment, and four fiercely loyal and wickedly funny friends. The only thing she's missing is a husband. So she swallows her pride, signs up for dating boot camp, and enlists the help of a professional—an acidic New Yorker with a black belt in "tongue fu"—who'll help Amelia apply proven business-marketing principles to finding her dream man. Amelia's first assignment is to track down all the lovers she's ever lost—from the guy who dumped her during ...
|  | The Icarus Girl: A Novel
Release Date: June 21, 2005“The Icarus Girl is an astonishing achievement.”—Sunday Telegraph (London)Jessamy “Jess” Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of an extraordinary and powerful imagination, she spends hours writing haiku, reading Shakespeare, or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard. As the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother, Jess just can’t shake off the feeling of being alone wherever she goes, and the other kids in her class are wary of her tendency to succumb to terrified fits of screamin...
|  | Notes from a Writer's Book of Cures and Spells
Publication Date: July 1, 2005Flamingo, a young writer in Jamaica, finds herself enmeshed in the world of her fictional characters in this inspiring and poetic novel about hope and the ravages of recent Jamaican economic and social upheavals. When poverty, emigration, and political turmoil in the fictional world oblige Flamingo's characters to disperse, the one-eyed protagonist Alva solicits Flamingo's help to bring them back together. The innovative novel is organized as a writers' notebook and sprinkled with recipes, herbal remedies, dream interpretations, and various other interjections e...
|  | Another World
Publication Date: March 1999The new novel by the author of the acclaimed Regeneration trilogy. Suppose time can slow down. Suppose it's not an ever rolling stream, but something altogether more viscous and unpredictable, like blood. Suppose it coagulates around terrible events, clots them over, stops the flow . . . During the hazy Newcastle summer, Nick's grandfather Geordie lies dying. A proud and resilient man, he has long outlived his peers but not the memories of his youth. As Nick watches, Geordie starts to relive the horrors that surrounded his brother's death in the painful days befor...
|  | Miller's Dance: A Novel of Cornwall, 1812-1813 (The Poldark novels)
Publication Date: October 1982| Series: The Poldark novels A novel from the Poldark series, originally published in 1983, in which the Poldark and Warleggan families find themselves thrust into a turbulent new era, with the uneasy political situation at home providing complications for Ross and Demelza Poldark and their children. ...
|  | Un d
Release Date: September 21, 2010| Series: Vintage Espanol #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIt’s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they can’t stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day—July 15th—of each year. Dex and Em face squabbles and fi ghts, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. As the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself. ...
|  | Territories of the Voice: Contemporary Stories by Irish Women Writers
Publication Date: December 1989Territories of the Voice: Contemporary Stories by Irish Women Wri, by DeSlavo, Louise et al., eds.. 2d ptg. 8vo. ...
|  | Matter of Time
Publication Date: May 1, 2001The New York Times Book Review called Shashi Deshpande's U.S. debut, "austere, philosophical, and rich; a work that . . . grows in moral force and pathos." Deshpande's critical acclaim in India—including three top literary prizes—prefigured the wide recognition abroad of this pivotal novel, now available in paperback.One morning, with no warning, Gopal, respected professor, devoted husband, and caring father, walks out on his family for reasons even he cannot articulate. His wife, Sumi, returns with their three daughters to the shelter of the Big Hous...
|  | Tengu
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|  | The Case of the Socialist Witchdoctor and Other Stories (African Writers Series)
Publication Date: October 1993| Series: African Writers Series A series of stories about the oppressive regime in Ethiopia which places innocent people in the dock. Here Tuma puts the regime itself on trial, and includes other stories where life turns out to be equally full of vengeance and betrayal - in bars, brothels, guerilla hideouts and village huts. ...
|  | The Ghost Writer
Publication Date: July 5, 2004A tantalizing tale of suspense and family secrets that weaves Victorian ghost stories into the present – where they start to come trueTimid, solitary librarian Gerard Freeman lives for just two things: his elusive pen pal Alice and a story he found hidden in his mother’s drawer years ago. Written by his great-grandmother Viola, it hints at his mother's role in a sinister crime. And as he discovers more of Viola’s chilling tales, he realizes that they might hold the key to finding Alice and unveiling his family's mystery – or will they bri...
|  | Kingdom's End: And Other Stories (India)
Release Date: March 6, 1990| Series: India A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, TRANSLATED FROM THE URDU, BY A WRITER CONSIDERED THE SUBCONTINENT'S GREATEST SHORT STORY WRITER. THIS EXCELLENT TRANSLATION HAS BEEN VARIOUSLY DESCRIBED AS 'MEMORABLE' (SALMAN RUSHDIE), 'AN ESTATE OF MANY MANSIONS' (FARRUKH DHONDY), 'IMPRESSIVE' (ANITA DESAI). ALL THE TRANSLATORS UNVARYINGLY CALL MANTO THE SUBCONTINENT'S FINEST MODERN SHORT STORY WRITER. FOR CONTENTS SEE OVER>>>> CONTENTS: TOBA TEK SINGH; THE DOG OF TITWAL; THE LAST SALUTE; THE RETURN; DOING GOD'S WORK; IT HAPPENED IN 1919; THE PRICE OF FREEDOM; THE WO...
|  | Turning for Home
Publication Date: May 19, 2003A cantankerous, elegant old woman sits in her beautiful Somerset house while her family secretly plots to evict her. In the garden is her one remaining racehorce, prematurely retired, and in London the man she probably should have married – who is still her dearest friend.Onto this scene comes Maeve Delaney. Sole applicant for the job of companion to Lady Pamela, streetwise and outrageous, Maeve bursts into the old house like a firecracker.As open warfare settles into a wary true between the two women, Maeve sets her heart on bringing the great racehorce,...
|  | Half Life
Release Date: April 27, 2010On the morning that changes everything, Aruna Ahmed Jones walks out of her ground-floor Victorian apartment in London wearing only jeans and a t-shirt, carrying nothing more substantial than a handbag, and keeps on walking. Leaving behind the handsome Dr. Patrick Jones, her husband of less than a year, Aruna heads to Heathrow, where she boards a plane bound for Singapore and her old life. Educated and beautiful, Aruna has a desperate need to risk it all. But why? Waiting for her is a messy past and a perfect past lover she had once abandone...
| | In the Red
Publication Date: June 1991Runner-up for the P.G.Wodehouse Humour Prize, this is a novel about the ultimate bank manager disaster. Mark Andrew James decides to murder his bank manager and then extends it to bank managers throughout the country. ...
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