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Benjamin Malaussene is a downtrodden publisher at Vendetta Press. Treated as a scapegoat by Queen Zabo, doyenne of publishing, he finally resigns, only for Zabo to offer him a starring role. All he has to do is to impersonate the world's best-loved, but hitherto anonymous author, J.L.B.

The family remains prey to drug addiction and suicide attempts. Some escape into sex, others into evangelical politics or religion. Regn becomes a UN diplomat in the Third World, his wife tries to kill their son, while their daughter serves her sexual apprenticeship in a Thai monastery.

From Svevo, Saba and Joyce in Trieste to Borges, Rushdie and psychopathology, this collection of essays covers other subjects such as: Saramago, Sebald, Seth, Henry Green, Christina Stead, Leopardi, Verga, Montale, Sironi in Fascist Italy, Buzzati, Bateson and Neugeboren.

The British love their birds, which are inextricably entwined with every aspect of their island life. British customs, more than 1,000 years of English literature, the very fabric of society, even the landscape itself, have all been enhanced by the presence of birds.

Discover Murdoch's wonderful writing in this compelling story of a young woman and an unusual religious lay community. A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home to an enclosed order of nuns.

Gyuri, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian Jew, gets the day off school to witness his father signing over the family timber business to the firm's bookkeeper - his final business transaction before being sent to a labour camp.

Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs.

Winner of the National Book Award for FictionSabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero.

Arrow in the Blue is the first volume of Arthur Koestler's autobiography. In the years before 1931, Arthur Koestler lived a tumultuous and varied existence. The second volume of Arthur Koestler's autobiography is The Invisible Writing.

Once, on a winter's night many years ago, after a heavy snow, the devil passed through the Scottish fishing town of Coldhaven, leaving a trail of dark hoofprints across the streets and roofs of the sleeping town.

In this, his first book and one of the landmarks of the New Journalism, Tom Wolfe managed to look at the American scene of the early 1960s afresh and to zero in on the more exotic forms of status-seeking then in vogue from New York to Los Angeles.

Reveals the story of Ianto: the feral, inarticulate, inbred, ignoble savage; haunter of mountains, killer of innocents.

A novel about the most dramatic political downfall of our time - that of Eastern Europe. The author won the Prix Medicis with "Flaubert's Parrot". He also wrote "A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters" and "Metroland".

Charles Croker, Atlanta real-estate entrepreneur, is having to face the reality of massive debt. Conrad Hensly, idealistic father of two, is fired from his job in the Croker Global Foods warehouse in Oakland. Back in Atlanta, Fareek "The Cannon" Fannon, star running-back, is accused of date rape.

Teasing out the extraordinary within the everyday, FALSE PRETENCES is a contemporary novel in mosiac. Through the separate yet interlinked stories, it traces the lives of two women as they deal with the complexities of love, private terrors, violence and - most precarious of all - hope.

Eight tales, all concerned with love and its conditions, on the night of 19 March, 1929.

Features the story of the documented contact between West and East. This book offers an insight into the history of ideas during one of the most fertile eras in European and Chinese history.

"Alms for Oblivion" is a series of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked together by the characters they have in common: soldiers and dons, men of business, politicians and writers. They are a scathing chronicle of the upper echelons of postwar English society.

In an island fortress prison, four political prisoners, sentenced to death for plotting against the Bourbon monarchy, spend their last night before they go to the guillotine. As they see the scaffold set up, they search through their past to find some pattern that will give meaning to their fate.

In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in the capital of Sri Lanka, Arjie is an oddity - a "funny boy" - who likes dressing as a girl. Through his eyes, the reader watches him come to terms with his homosexuality and with the violent racism of the society in which he lives.

The story of the birth of the 20th century and how it develops in Denmark is told through the histories of four families and the young that grow up in them. Peter Hoeg is the author of "Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow", "Borderliners" and "The Woman and the Ape".

Only the picture of a pit bull terrier left behind at each murder can link the crimes. Day after day, Ispettore Negro works on her seemingly impossible case. But when a young man unwittingly encounters Pit Bull in an internet chat room, he provides Negro with the clue that could lead her to her target.

A black comedy of family life, by the award-winning author of "Tongues of Flame" and "Loving Roger". Raymond has gone mad. His family have planned their lives so carefully, and a family casualty is definitely not part of the equation. Will Raymond let them help him anyway?

Begins with a corpse and a chilling question: Why has nice, ordinary, affectionate Anna picked up a knife and murdered the man she insists she loves? Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize when first published, this novel illuminates the way love contains the seeds of vindictiveness and hate.

George believes that life is worth living only if it is happy, and that if someone he loves is suffering he should move heaven and earth to end that suffering. He will not accept that life is not destined to be pleasant, or that his marriage can be anything but ideal. Then a deformed baby is born.

In 1508 Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

This biography of Lord Hailsham, details his political career from its start in the Oxford by-election of 1938. It describes his joining of the cabinet just before the Suez crisis and how he remained a strong presence in every Tory government until his retirement.

In this memoir, Levey recreates an English childhood, outwardly ordinary and undramatic, but inwardly rich, sometimes bewildering and far from typical, not least in its pervasive Catholic ethos. The main emphasis is the impact of the world on a boy imaginative and visual, and his encounters with pictures, books, gardens, churches and schools.

Frank and funny, unorthodox, liberated and quintessentially English, Dodie Smith, playwright and novelist, was the author of those immortal classics, The Hundred and One Dalmations and I Capture the Castle.

In one of the most acclaimed fiction debuts in years, Adam Haslett explores the lives that appear shuttered by loss and discovers entire worlds hidden inside them. With Checkovian restraint and compassion, conveying both the sorrow of life and the courage with which people rise to meet it, You Are Not A Stranger Here is a triumph.