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£9.99Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham’s best characters. He himself also figures largely in the story.
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Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham’s best characters. He himself also figures largely in the story.


In a cult classic that rivals ‘Pulp Fiction’ for its portrayal of violence in the postmodern society, Anthony Burgess’s novel is part horror farce, part social prophecy and part penetrating study of human choice between good and evil.

On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat.

This is the story of Charlie, the subnormal floor sweeper at Donner’s bakery and the gentle butt of everyone’s jokes. Charlie is the subject of a daring experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence.

The narrator of this tale, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, an undesirable public house, and finds the main characters of his drama waiting to begin.


‘The Bluest Eye’ chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio. Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows.

The old man has gone 84 days without catching a fish, everything about him is old except his eyes, they are the colour of the sea. He finally catches a fish, but this is no ordinary fish, nor is his fierce and determined response.



‘They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.’
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