One cold Christmas night a shepherd recounts the magical story of how he came to be the first visitor to the newborn Christ child - ahead of the other shepherds, and in complete secret. A deftly wrought re-working of...
Set in New England mainly and London partly, "On Beauty" concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching...
Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics but Umberto Eco draws on the histories of both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed sensibilities from the classical world...
On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea
On Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics, but Umberto Eco draws on both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed us from the classical world to modern times. In...
On Beyond Zebra: Yellow Back Book ***
In this rip-roaring story a young boy delights in explaining how his alphabet starts where our alphabet ends. Carrying on beyond Z for zebra, we find letter Yuzz for Yuzz-a-ma-Tuzz, and Glikk as in Glikker, who lives...
A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she...
In this richly diverse collection of essays, Joseph Brodsky casts a reflective eye on his experiences of early life in Russia and exile in America. With dazzling erudition, he explores subjects as varied as the...
D"Arcy Thompson"s classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take.
On Her Majesty`s Secret Service
‘If there was one thing that set James Bond really moving, it was being passed at speed by a pretty girl …’ From the moment he first meets Teresa di Vicenzo – a reckless playgirl with a love of fast cars and danger –...
On Her Majesty`s Secret Service
Ernst Stavro Blofeld, head of the terrorist organization SPECTRE, is holed up in his Alpine base, conducting research into a terrifying biological weapon. 007`s mission is to gain access to Blofeld`s icy retreat and...
After the opening essay on the general significance of literature, Eco examines a number of major authors from the Western canon. A stimulating chapter on the poetic qualities of Dante`s "Paradiso" is followed by one...
The captivating new novel from the international bestselling author of ‘The Thorn Birds’. Innocence is no protection… In Holloman, Connecticut, someone is preying on the innocent. At a prestigious research centre...
