"The White Guard" is the first major work of Mikhail Bulgakov, author of "The Master and Margarita", and is the only one of his novels to be even part-published during his lifetime. Drawing closely on Bulgakov`s...
Marvin Kreitman lives for sex, or at least he lives for women. Charlie Merriweather, on the other hand, loves just the one woman, also called Charlie. Once a week, the two friends meet for a Chinese lunch, contriving...
Who`s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
When middle-aged Martha and her husband George are joined by the younger Nick and Honey for late-night drinks after a party, the stage is set for a night of drunken recriminations and revelations. Battle-lines are...
Britain`s number one bestselling author turns her brilliant pen to the explosive world of education. Two schools, both in leafy Larkminster, but worlds apart, are turned upside down when the ambitious and fatally...
`Between grief and nothing I will take grief`. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectability. In...
Althea is the mother of three strong-minded children - one of whom is a Buddhist - and owner of a finicky dog named Bozo - Saddled with too large a house - albeit in a beautiful Cotswold village - worrisome mortgage...
"His wit is devastating, his eye for detail exacting, his prose polished, serpentine, elegant and as savvy and savage as Evelyn as dazzlingly inventive and bizarrely original as ". "Detroit News" "A farce touching...
Henry Wilt has for ten years been trying to teach English literature to his students at the Fenland College of Arts and Technology. He has become bored, frustrated and possibly murdereous, so Chief Inspector Flint...
Henry Wilt, Tom Sharpe`s beleaguered hero, returns again for another hilarious dose of quickfire farce. Stuck in a job he doesn`t want - but can`t afford to lose - as nominal Head of the Communications Department at...
Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in `The Pig in a Poke` with one of his few...
Written when Hemingway was at the height of his creative powers, the stories in "Winner Take Nothing" glow with the mark of his unique talent. Hunters, wives, old men of wisdom, waiters, fighters, women loved, women...
Wit and Wisdom of P.G.Wodehouse
The Wit and Wisdom of the Master – all compacted into 128 pithy pages! Tony Ring, the president of the Wodehouse Association and author of the 600,000-word Millennium Wodehouse Concordance, has drawn on his extensive...
Ever since Whit and Wisty Allgood were cruelly torn from their home and family in the middle of the night, the soldiers of a brutal totalitarian government have relentlessly tried to capture and execute them for...
It seemed an easy job. After all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn`t marry a prince? But for the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick, travelling to the distant city...
The world is changing - the government has seized control of every aspect of society, and now kids are disappearing. For fifteen-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit, life turns upside-down when they are hauled...
