Tender, precise, comic and cgilling by turn, the stories in A.L.Kennedy's new collection confirm her repytation as one of the most exciting new writer to have appeared in the past decade. "Kennedy has now proved that she is one of the few youn writers to have found a distinctive voice, one that we
The economy was booming. People had more money than they knew what to do with. And then, the earthquake struck. Komura's wife follows the TV reports from morning to night, without eating or sleeping. The same images appear again and again: flames, smoke, buildings turned to rubble, their
Zbiór 10 wierszy W.H. Audena ze słynnym "Funeral Blues". CONTENTS O tell me the truth about love Song Underneath an abject willow Calypso As I walked out one evening Lullaby At last the secret is out O what is that sound Johnny Funeral blues No ISBN
In the tradition of political and cultural revelation V.S. Naipaul so brilliantly made his own in Among The Believers, A Turn In The South, his first book about the United States, is a revealing, disturbing, elegiac book about the American South -- from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to
Life in 1950s Pittsburgh is slow and unsatisfying, at least for Jeremiah Hlenderson and his woman, Willet Mercer. So while the other locals sit and wait on their back-alley porches, the couple plan their escape to New York City. Poverty-stricken, Willet is forced to consider prostitution to fund
September 1613. In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England’s great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. His body is ‘tormented’ with violent convulsions. Within a few short weeks he will suffer an excruciating death. Soon the whole family will be stricken with the same terrifying
A duel to death between an SAS soldier and the man who taught him everything he knows. SAS Captain Alex Temple is on an urgent mission. Someone has been murdering M15 officers and it looks as if the killer is an insider, one of the Regiment&’,s own. Alex&’,s task is to track down and
Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money a place devoid of feeling or hope. Clay
New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, at times it seems as if the whole world has gone mad. Trying, as always, to keep some kind of peace-their legendary nickel—plated Colts very much in evidence—Coffin Ed
The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde – psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously quotable, central to a alluring cultural world and someone whose life assumed an unbearably dramatic shape.
