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The year is 1907 and Maurice Ravel is one of the most admired young composers in France. In Belle Epoque Paris he cuts a charismatic, dandyish figure, whose technically flawless music hides a deep emotional core, and whose unpredictable talent is as hard to pin down as his mysterious personal life. When Ravel’s devoted acolyte Mylo encourages him to take on a new pupil – a rising British composer called Ralph Vaughan Williams – an unlikely cross-channel friendship starts to blossom. The two men could hardly be more different. Ralph is down-to-earth, married, and currently engaged in a long-term project of collecting forgotten British folk songs – a musical form in which Ravel has no interest. All they truly have in common is that in clear but indefinable ways, each of them seems an archetypal representative of his own country. But as the shadow of war approaches, their friendship becomes entwined with Mylo’s own tragic story.
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In these pages we find Bertie Wooster and his faithful valet, Jeeves, embarking on any number of foolhardy quests and inspired rescue missions – alongside other treasured stories featuring Psmith, the Oldest Member, and the Empress of Blandings herself.
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A culture-defining music icon, Leonard Cohen began his career as a poet. With a unique eye for sorrow and beauty, love and solitude, faith and longing, his voice would come to move the world. ‘Stranger Music’ presents a magnificent cross section of Cohen’s most celebrated era and includes legendary songs like ‘Suzanne’, ‘I’m Your Man’ and ‘Hallelujah’ alongside selections from poetry collections such as Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers and Death of a Lady’s Man. Daring, intimate, evocative, ‘Stranger Music’ illuminates the great legacy of an artist whose work transcended genres and generations.
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A story set in the court of King Arthur, featuring knights, valour, sacrifice, magic and a feminist retelling of the love story of Tristan and Isolde.
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A novel of secrets and female solidarity set in post-war Milan, by one of Italy’s most significant women writers.
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The oldest mystery specialty bookstore in the world, The Mysterious Bookshop, has for most of its forty-five-year history commissioned an original short story as a holiday gift for its customers. Written exclusively for the store and never published elsewhere, the stories were given as a holiday gift to its customers as a thank you for their business, handed out or mailed between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. The prompt for the story requires three elements: that it be set at Christmastime, that it involve a crime of some kind, or the suspicion of one, and that it be set at least partially in the bookstore. And from these loose structural guidelines, diverse tales took flight. The dozen tales included in this volume are among the finest to be produced in this annual tradition, sure to charm any reader looking for a holiday-themed escape.
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Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this powerful, often shocking, story follows the intertwined destinies of two families – the Trasks and the Hamiltons.
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Dissatisfied with the ways of life he has experienced, Siddhartha, the handsome son of a Brahmin, leaves his family and his friend, Govinda, in search of a higher state of being. Having experienced the myriad forms of existence, from immense wealth and luxury to the pleasures of sensual and paternal love, Siddhartha finally settles down beside a river, where a humble ferryman teaches him his most valuable lesson yet.
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Benjamin Stanton – decorated Gulf War veteran, star jurist in Europe’s highest courts, orphan, addict. But after an unexpected encounter his allegiance begins to shift. Introduced by his new handler to the petit bleus pills, which take away. Introduced by his new handler to the petit bleu pills, he finds himself surrendering to sublime visions: of sublime nerve-rays conjoining all spaces and all humanity in a great web of pure benevolence, in which lurk traces of a violent incident back in Iraq. Soon Stanton finds himself passing out Court documents to Pirotti’s colleagues – or just passing out. When the Court begins to detect leaks in security, its suspicion falls on anyone but Stanton, who can do no wrong. Indeed, it is he who has been charged with the task of drafting a landmark ruling, more important than anything he has written before.
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Featuring essays from the author originally written for radio, a new edition of the Rathbone Folio Prize-longlisted collection by firebrand poet, playwright and performer Inua Ellams
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Harry is out of the police force. He has left a history of violence and grief behind him and is trying his hands at a new career. But when a woman is found murdered, her killing styled after a scene from a famous movie, and two more bodies turn up in rapid succession, newly minted homicide investigator Oleg Fauke turns to Harry for advice. As gruesome films begin to appear and the victims pile up, Harry’s unique expertise is needed. He is drawn back into helping his old colleagues, and his personal relationships grow as complicated as the mind of the killer he is trying to catch.
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Suzanna Klein was a baby when her mother got up early one morning to rob a bank with a group of fellow radicals. Now, every Saturday, Suzanna lines up at the prison gates among the other children, each dressed as if for celebration. Inside there is a nursery and a cemetery; there are watchful guards and distractable nuns; there are women counting down to release and women like Suzanna’s mother, who will never be released. At home, Suzanna is raised by her grandmother, who is entirely unforgiving of her daughter’s crime and refuses to visit the prison. Surrounding Suzanna are her grandmother’s friends, who know one another from their years in the Communist Party and still spend extended cocktail hours debating the Hitler-Stalin pact. Though these women once insisted on changing the world, they are torn between teaching Suzanna how the world works and shielding her from it.
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Selected from across Capote’s writing life, these sparkling tales convey both the wonder and the chill of Christmas time. They range from nostalgic portraits of childhood to more unsettling works that reveal the darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep South of Capote’s youth, a young boy, Buddy, and his beloved maiden ‘aunt’ Sook forage for pecans and whiskey to bake into fruitcakes, make kites – too broke to buy gifts – and rise before dawn to prepare feasts for a ragged assembly of guests; it is Sook who teaches Buddy the true meaning of good will. In other stories, an unlikely festive miracle, of sorts, occurs at a local drugstore and a lonely woman has a troubling encounter in wintry New York.
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Set in the American South, this is the story of a group of people who have little in common. A young girl, a drunk and a black doctor are drawn to a gentle, sympathetic deaf mute, John Singer, whose presence changes their lives.
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Set in Camus’ native Algeria, this story centres around Meursault. The young French-Algerian leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life until his involvement in a violent incident calls into question the fundamental values of society.
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A mouse is like a heart: it sleeps in winter; it knows uncertain love. None of us knows what to expect out there. Surely pain is to be a part of it. This collection offers a way of seeing – passing through ageing, through loss, while staying open to the beauties and mysteries of the world and the people in it. Henri Cole, one of America’s finest poets, balances ecstasy with a constant awareness of devastating violence, whether inside our threshold, or glimpsed from afar. These observant lyrics resist easy answers; they gleam with desire and doubt, bracing for uncertain love, for certain pain, for sudden joy, in our ever-strange bodies.
