The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul`s richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful...
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
Twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of the creative genius behind Batman, Edward Scissorhands and Big Fish. Burton`s lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness...
This is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959.
Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises...
Hired to protect a beautiful but neurotic actress, Cordelia Gray soon becomes embroiled in a case as dangerous to her own life as it is mysterious. Clarissa Lisle hopes to make a spectacular comeback in a production...
Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his `damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother` Hugh, "Theft: A Love Story" once again displays Peter Carey`s extraordinary flair for language. Ranging...
Meet Mr Bones, the canine sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, the brilliant, troubled and altogether original poet-saint from Brooklyn. Like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza before them, they sally forth on a...
Plays Three: A Separate Peace Teeth Another Moon Called Earth Neutral Ground Professional Foul Squaring the Circle Introduced by the author, this third collection of plays written by Tom Stoppard contains his...
Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis & Joy Division
The only in-depth biographical accoutn of the lead singer of Joy Division, written by his widow. Revered by his peers - Bono described his voice as "holy" - and idolized by his fans, Ian Curtis left behind a legacy...
An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are...
True History of the Kelly Gang (Exp)
In a dazzling act of ventriloqusm,Peter Carey gives Ned Kelly a voice so wild, passionate and original that it is impossible not to believe that the famous bushranger himself is speaking from beyond the grave. True...
