Analysts and novelists are both concerned with our innermost thoughts and feelings. Here, British novelist A.S. Byatt meets Ignes Sodre, a Brazilian pyschoanalyst, to discuss six novels by female writers, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch and Toni Morrison.
Lillie Langtry, mistress of Edward VII, was surrounded by scandal, luxury and gossip, but this biography goes beyond these outward trappings to lift the masks that Oscar Wilde, her friend and mentor, taught her to wear. It is not so much a life as a series of lives, as Lillie reinvented herself.
Captures the high romance of aviation. This funny travel book offers insights into the thrills and perils of the pilot's seat - from a UN Cessna flying aid into a war zone, to aerobatics in a jet fighter, from chasing goats through NZ snowy mountains by helicopter, to touching the edge of the stratosphere in a Learjet.
A new translation of the story John Fowles called the "greatest novel of adolescence in European literature" When Augustin Meaulnes arrives in Francois' home, he changes everything. Life in the little town where they both go to school suddenly becomes far more adventurous and exciting. On one of his escapades, Meaulnes gets lost in the countryside finds himself at an extraordinary party where he meets the girl of his dreams. From this point on...
Paul Strathern studied philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin. He has lectured in philosophy and mathematics. He is a Somerset Maugham Prize-winning novelist, author of two series of books - Philosophers in 90 Minutes and The Big Idea: Scientists who Changed the World, as well as Mendeleyev's Dream (shortlisted for the Aventis Science Book Prize), Dr. Strangelove's Game: A History of Economic Genius, The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance, T...
Many of the reviews for the hardback of this title suggested that this was Anne Tyler's best novel yet. It is the story of Barnaby Gaitlin, a man who used to have a happy family, but now has an ex-wife, troublesome nine-year-old, an unreliable car, as well as a job doing chores for the elderly. His hopeless charm still attracts the women though... Tyler won the Pulitzer Prize for "Breathing Lessons", and "The Accidental Tourist" was made into ...
Vintage paperback edition of Amis's autobiography, in which he explores his relationship with his father and the murder of his cousin by Fred West, recounts a wealth of anecdotes, and provides portraits of fellow authors such as Saul Bellow, Philip Larkin and Robert Graves. "Experience" is a beautiful, and beautifully strange book... rich and sedimented prose that displays all of Amis's usual powers of simple paradox" "Guardian".
The corrected version of Joyce's masterpiece, that caused so much controversy on its first publication. This edition is the accepted reference text for Joyce studies. 'The greatest novel of the century' Anthony Burgess, "Observer
In the small Bosnian town of Visegrad the stone bridge of the novel's title, built in the sixteenth century on the instruction of a grand vezir, bears witness to three centuries of conflict.
An exploration of time and place in which Fortey peels away the top layer of the land to reveal the hidden landscape - the rocks which contain the story of distant events. We travel with him as our guide throughout the British Isles and as the rocks change we learn to read the clues they contain.
A beautifully produced, collectible hardback edition of Orwell's classic novel, designed as a companion to the Harvill Secker edition of "Nineteen Eighty-Four".
