 | Savages: Savages
Publication Date: May 1, 1990A novel, whose English language rights were sold for 2,500,000, which deals with 5 women, transformed from wives of the powerful rich executives to widows in the jungle, coming face to face with the savage inside themselves. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition....
 |  | The Polyglots (Prion Lost Treasures)
Publication Date: July 1, 2001| Series: Prion Lost Treasures The Polyglots is the story of an eccentric Belgian family living in the Far East in the uncertain years after World War I and the Russian Revolution. The tale is recounted by their dryly conceited young English relative, Captain Georges Hamlet Alexander Diabologh, who comes to stay with them during a military mission. Teeming with bizarre characters—depressives, obsessives, paranoiacs, hypochondriacs, and sex maniacs—Gerhardie paints a brilliantly absurd world where the comic and the tragic are profoundly and irrevoca...
|  | My Fault
Publication Date: September 1, 2005A nightmarish voyage through a childhood blighted by mental and sexual abuse stumbles onward into adolescense, laying bare a young man's desperate attempts to make sense of a world distorted by alcohol, bullies and yes men. At turns hilarious and harrowing. ...
|  | Paradise Postponed
Publication Date: April 7, 1986A literary novel from the author of FELIX IN THE UNDERWORLD, TITMUSS REGAINED and THE SOUND OF TRUMPETS. ...
|  | Hunter's Moon: A Story of Foxes
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|  | The WISE WOMAN
Publication Date: November 1, 1993After fleeing the abbey where she was raised, Alys is taken inby a wise woman, who teaches her the ways of country healing--aneducation that comes in handy when Alys moves into the home of thearistocratic Sir Hugh. 35,000 first printing. ...
|  | Eclipse
Release Date: February 20, 2001In his first novel since The Untouchable, John Banville gives us the intensely emotional story of a man discovering for the first time who he has been and what he is becoming.Alexander Cleave—a famous actor who “took to the stage to give myself a cast of characters to inhabit who would be . . . of more weight and moment than I could ever hope to be”—faces the almost certain collapse of his thirty-year career. In physical and psychological retreat, he returns to his abandoned childhood home, believing that, away from his wife and daughter...
|  | Under My Skin: A Hannah Wolfe Mystery (Hannah Wolfe Crime Novels)
Release Date: July 6, 2004| Series: Hannah Wolfe Crime Novels A decade before her dazzling breakthrough novel, The Birth of Venus, Silver Dagger Award-winning author Sarah Dunant won critical acclaim for her Hannah Wolfe crime novels.In Under My Skin, private investigator Hannah Wolfe's cushy new assignment takes her to the sumptuous Castle Dean health spa. While being plucked, crimped, steamed, and oiled, Hannah is ideally placed to probe some reported cases of sabotage -- fish in the Jacuzzi and steel nails in the massage heads. But spa owner Olivia Marchant has other problems besides sa...
|  | Fabulous Nobodies
Release Date: August 1, 2006 Before Bridget Jones, Carrie Bradshaw, and the Shopaholic, it was a world of Fabulous Nobodies Now, back in print after fifteen years, it’s your chance to experience this hysterically wild cult-status novel for the first time. Get ready to meet: Reality Nirvana Tuttle A self-described "doorwhore" at one of Manhattan’s hottest clubs. She never gets up before 2 P.M. and has vivid, two-way conversations with every dress in her closet. Hugo "A Go-Go" Falk Gossip columnist and documenter of all things fabulous in the fashion scene. This man is the ke...
|  | The Book of Revelation
Release Date: February 8, 2000"He felt them begin to touch him. Sometimes their hands were tender, sometimes they were only curious, but there was no part of him, no curve or hollow, that they did not, in the end, explore."On a bright spring day in Amsterdam, a young man steps out of his studio to buy a pack of cigarettes. A dancer and choreographer, he would seem to have made the life of his choice: an international reputation; an exquisite French girlfriend, from whom he's been inseparable for seven years; careful plans for an interesting future, with no regrets lingering in his ...
|  | Mrs. Pringle of Fairacre
Publication Date: October 2001Through the eyes of many Fairacre friends, we trace Mrs. Pringle’s life and her stormy standing as the redoubtable cleaner of the town’s school. However maddening she is, life at Fairacre would be poorer without her. ...
|  | Circles of Deceit (Virago Modern Classics)
Publication Date: November 1, 2006| Series: Virago Modern Classics Circles of Deceit is narrated by a painter who specializes as a copyist. Major figures on the canvas are Clio, his child-bride; Helen, his first wife; and his mother Maisie. They confound lies and the truth in a subtle weave, while the silent agony of the painter's son is a poignant reflection on the busy web of deception. And as the copyist transcribes his modern versions of Old Masters, so the past keeps breaking through the surface of the present, until fact and fiction, like art and life, meet in a remarkable conclus...
|  | TRIPLE FEATURE: A Novel
Publication Date: April 8, 1997Three women in the male-dominated, glamour town of Hollywood--supermodel-turned-actress Roxana, studio head Eleanor, and scriptwriter Megan--pool their resources to pull off the movie-making coup they have all been dreaming of. 30,000 first printing. ...
|  | Heartstones (Harper Short Novel Series)
Publication Date: May 1987| Series: Harper Short Novel Series Sixteen-year-old Elvira's mother is dead. Elvira is sad, of course, but not so sad as her younger sister Spinny. Spinny is afraid their father, Luke, will be heartbroken, but Elvira knows better -- after all, Luke has her to take her mother's place. But then Luke brings home a pretty young woman and introduces her as his fiancee, and Elvira decides that she will stop at nothing to stop her father's marriage . . . --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | Ake: Years of Childhood
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|  | Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree
Publication Date: August 1999This early collection of eight short stories and a novella isvintage Wendt. Stories convey the unease of traditional island community caughtup in the rapid changes of the modern world. Wendt writes with enviabledirectness and with deep feeling: comedy and tragedy are often hard todistinguish as his characters struggle to come to terms with their changingworld....
|  | Crampton Hodnet (Plume)
Release Date: June 1, 1986| Series: Plume This is a wonderfully accomplished farce beginning with the joke of using her own name in the title (Barbara Mary Crampton Pym). From that point she sails off into a wickedly comedic farce, focusing- in recognizingly "Pym" fashion- on the unsuitable romantic entanglements of a curate and a pretty young girl, both of whom live in the same rooming house, and a starry-eyed university professor and his female student. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Sister Murdock's House of Correction
Publication Date: June 23, 2000Trapped inside Athelstan Hall with seven other young women who have displeased their husbands, Sarah Easton discovers the hard way that a lady's education is not complete until she learns to accept subjugation willingly.She is swept along from one degrading encounter to the next, becoming gradually aware that things are not quite what they seem... ...
|  | White Man of God (African Writers Series)
Publication Date: December 1980| ISBN-10: 0435902318 | ISBN-13: 978-0435902315This novel of wisdom and charm tells the story of Tansa, a boy growing up in a Cameroonian village which has been split down the middle by the arrival of a missionary - the "white man of God". ...
|  | 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...
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