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Henry Green

Back

PaperbackEngels9781860463693 19-2-1998

Back is, according to Jeremy Treglown in his introduction, "Henry Green's most extended attempt to plumb the world of the hunted - and haunted". First published in 1946, it has indeed remained one of Green's most haunting, elegiac novels and one of the most enduring to have focused on the individual human tragedy of the war. Meer

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Daniel Pennac

Fairy Gunmother

PaperbackEngels9781860464454 18-6-1998

A policeman on a mission of mercy is shot dead at point-blank range by a sweet old granny on a frosty morning. Maniacally inventive - some have called it deranged - Pennac's creations in The Fairy Gunmother have achieved cult status all over Europe. Meer

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Jose Saramago

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

PaperbackEngels9781860465024 17-9-1998

The world's threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow. Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practising medicine in Brazil, Ricardo Reis wanders the rain-sodden streets. Meer

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Bjorn Larsson

Long John Silver

PaperbackEngels9781860465383 30-12-1999

The true and eventful History of my Life of Liberty and Adventure as a Gentleman of Fortune and Enemy to Mankind. What ever happened to Long John Silver, the enigmatic, treacherous and yet attractively subversive pirate whose exploits made him the anti-hero of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island? Meer

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William Maxwell

Time Will Darken It

PaperbackEngels9781860465543 7-1-1999

The decision to invite his Southern relatives to stay proves a fateful one for Austin King. Against the perfectly-drawn background of small-town Illinois at the turn of the 20th century, Maxwell once again uncovers the seeds of potential tragedy at the heart of a happily-established family. Meer

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Jaan Kross

The Czar's Madman

PaperbackEngels9781860465796 27-7-2001

Timo von Bock's release by the Czar from nine years' incarceration does not spell the end of the Baron's troubles: he is confined to his Livonian estate to live under the constant eye of police informers planted among his own household, and is subjected to endless humiliations. Meer

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Murray Bail

Holden's Performance

PaperbackEngels9781860465925 28-12-2000

Guileless and matter of fact, Holden is fated to follow the flamboyant people around him- ex-Corporal McBee, who zealously woos Holden's mother; Meer

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Thomas Berger

Little Big Man

PaperbackEngels9781860466410 6-5-1999

'I am a white man and never forget it, but I was brought up by the Cheyenne Indians from the age of ten.' So starts the story of Jack Crabb, the 111-year old narrator of Thomas Berger's masterpiece of American fiction. Meer

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Murray Bail

Homesickness

PaperbackEngels9781860466830 21-10-1999

Thirteen Australian package tourists set off around the world on the holiday of a lifetime. Homesickness is an enchanting novel: a wry, witty look at the ways people interact, a catalogue of comic digressions and tantalising information in which the world becomes a museum with no exhibit more bizarre than human nature itself. Meer

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Jose Saramago

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

PaperbackEngels9781860466847 2-9-1999

Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. In the wilderness he tussles not with the Devil – a kindly and necessary evil – but with God, a fallible, power-hungry autocrat. Meer

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Jose Saramago

The Tale of the Unknown Island

PaperbackEngels9781860466908 18-11-1999

"A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me a boat. Since the king spent all his time sitting by the door for favours (favours being offered to the king, you understand), whenever he heard someone knocking on the door for petitions, he would pretend not to hear. Meer

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Jose Saramago

All The Names

PaperbackEngels9781860467202 1-6-2000

A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner José SaramagoSenhor José is a lonely civil servant who spends his days labouring in the labyrinthine stacks of Lisbon's central registry. Meer

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Jose Saramago

The Stone Raft

PaperbackEngels9781860467219 1-6-2000

What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length of the Pyrenees, separating Spain and Portugal from the rest of Europe?In Saramago's fable, a new island is sent spinning through the ocean like a great stone raft. Meer

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Jose Saramago

The History of the Siege of Lisbon

PaperbackEngels9781860467226 1-6-2000

What happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love?When Raimundo Silva, a lowly proofreader for a Lisbon publishing house, inserts a negative into a sentence of a historical text, he alters the whole course of the 1147 Siege of Lisbon. Meer

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Amin Maalouf

On Identity

PaperbackEngels9781860467295 19-10-2000

The notion of identity - personal, religious, ethnic or national - is one that has given rise to heated passions and crimes throughout the history of mankind. Meer

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Maureen Duffy

Capital

PaperbackEngels9781860468308 5-4-2001

As he listens he grows convinced they are predicting London's future. Meepers, homeless and dishevelled, yet an enlightened and mystically knowing amateur archeologist, seeks to understand the destruction of London in the Dark Ages, hoping to predict the capital's future. Meer

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Henry Green

Caught

PaperbackEngels9781860468315 5-4-2001

When the war breaks out, Rose, a well-to-do widower with a young son, Christopher, volunteers for the Auxiliary Fire Service in London, and is trained under a professional fire officer, Pye. Meer

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Raymond Carver

Call If You Need Me

PaperbackEngels9781860468469 21-6-2001

When he died in August 1988, Raymond Carver had just published what were thought to be his last stories in the collection entitled Elephant and his own collection of stories, Where I'm Calling from. Meer

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Amin Maalouf

Ports of Call

PaperbackEngels9781860468902 3-5-2001

A graceful story of love across an insuperable gulf and a powerful allegory for the conflict that has beset the Middle East for the last half century. Meer

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Yi Mun-Yol

The Poet

PaperbackEngels9781860468964 5-4-2001

When the King's treacherous governor is recaptured by royal troops and executed, his sons and grandsons are also condemned to death. They survive, but find they have lost their place in society. Meer

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