Our Man in Havana (intro. Christopher Hitchens)
Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, was short of money. His daughter had reached an expensive age - so he accepted Hawthorne`s offer of $300-plus a month and became Agent 59200/5, MI6`s man in Havana. To keep the job,...
The restrictions of a wartime childhood in London and subsequent post-war shortages have done little to enrich Timothy`s early youth. But everything changes when his glamorous older sister, Kath, invites him to spend...
Roddy Doyle`s Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to increasing isolation...
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a...
September 1952. The cotton is almost ready in the fields of Arkansas. The harvest will soon begin. Luke Chandler is a seven-year-old who lives with his family in a small, unpainted house on rented land. In the next...
`She did not know what to say. She was undecided whether indignantly to assert her innocence or to break out into angry reproaches. He seemed to read her thoughts. "I`ve got all the proof necessary" `. Kitty Fane is...
Jilly Cooper explores the art world - where successful young artists strut around like rock stars and where the more beautiful the painting, the greater the backstabbing. And few pictures are more beautiful than...
A hilarious collection of the many articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio. It includes selected wireless essays of Donald Trefusis, the ageing professor of philology brought to life in...
Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack`s dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than...
They kidnapped him in a small town in Brazil. He had changed his name and his appearance, but they were sure they had their man. Four years before, he had been called Patrick He had died in a car crash in February...
