DescriptionViolent rebellion comes to London's middle classes in the extraordinary new novel from the author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes . When a bomb goes off at Heathrow it looks like just another random act of violence to psychologist David Ma…
DescriptionSamuel Pepys's meticulous chronicles of life in 17th-century England are an exacting record of a unique historical era. Pepys lived through one of the most colorful periods of British history. He witnessed - and recorded detailed accounts of - the execution of Charles I, a civil war, the Restoration, a plague, and the Great Fire of London. His entries also record the minutiae of everyday life - scandals, intrigues, infidelities and vulgarities - presenting a comprehensive portrait of a fascinating era.
DescriptionMore than the story of Monica Gall's life in London and her education as a singer, A Mixture of Frailties is an account of her education as a human being. The result is this absorbing novel, comic in the true sense, vivid, and frequently moving. A Mixture of Frailties is part of Robertson Davies' Salterton trilogy which also includes Tempest-Tost and Leaven of Malice .
DescriptionThe acclaimed New York Times best seller London Fields tells the story of a love triangle, a bizarre tangle of love, lust, and murder. At its apex stands one of the great antiheroines of modern fiction, the supreme femme fatale Nicola Six. Since she was a little girl, her clairvoyant powers have shown her her own death. But instead of surrendering to her fate, she decides to direct it herself by fashioning 3 men into her killers. The death of Nicola combines with the death of love, mankind, the century, and even the text itself in this wickedly sarcastic and explosively chaotic ride.
