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‘Steve Jobs’ provides an account of Jobs’ professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs’ family members, this book is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.
Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan – one of the many young children sent ‘home’ from the East to be fostered and educated in England. This novel tells his story, from his birth in what was then Malaya to the extremities of his old age.
In paranoid, sex-obsessed Saudi Arabia where adultery is punishable by death, policeman Ibrahim Zahrani’s lover has gone missing and he cannot report it. His colleague, forensic pathologist Katya Hijazi, is desperate to be able to live freely, but has her own potentially leathal secrets. Then, just outside Jeddah, a hidden grave is uncovered, containing the victims of a serial killer who has worked undetected for many years.
Knotshead is a school catering for the children of the rich, famous, liberal – and deluded. With its progressive curriculum, complacent staff and beautiful grounds, it looks like Paradise. But the clever, the odd and the bookish are relentlessly persecuted as pupils make their own rules in a bubble of privilege and prejudice. When Alice, the headmaster’s intellectual step-daughter, and the much-expelled American millionaire Winthrop T. Sheen join forces against the school bully, Grub Viner, a gifted pianist and school ‘joker’, has to choose between love and loyalty, and black comedy escalates to murder.
As a young woman, Roza Mojeska was part of an underground resistance group in Communist Poland. But after her arrest, a Stasi officer makes her a devil’s bargain – and in the dark of a government prison, a terrible choice is made. Now, 50 years later, Anselm is called upon to investigate Roza’s story.
‘A Vicious Circle’ exposes the corruption of London’s journalistic circuit, the horrors of our hospitals and slums, and the transformations caused by motherhood. Gripping, tender and fiercely funny, it has been instantly recognised as a modern classic about the way we live now.
The burkha-clad body of a young woman is discovered on Jeddah beach; soon afterwards, an American woman finds herself alone and afraid when her husband disappears. Investigating policeman Osama Ibrahim, forensic scientist Katya Hijazi and her friend, Nayir Sharqi, search out the truth in the city streets and the desert beyond.
Six severed arms are discovered buried in a forest clearing. They are arranged in a mysterious circle, and appear to belong to missing girls between the ages of 8 and 13. The rest of the bodies are nowhere to be found. Criminologist Goran Gavila is given the case.
In a community such as Larkwood monastery, secrets are rare. So Father Anselm is deeply dismayed by an allegation against Herbert Moore, the man who shaped his own vocation, made by a visitor to Larkwood’s cemetery.
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike’s deal anyway? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in this book.
In 1978 Greg Roberts turned to heroin, feeding his addiction with a string of robberies. Sentenced to prison, he escaped and fled to Bombay. Based on his life in Bombay, this is a tale of slums and mansions, Mafia and movies, and much more.
When Polly & Theo Noble book the Casa Luna for their summer holiday they plan a civilised Anglo-American house-party with Theo’s brother Daniel, his girlfriend, & Polly’s old schoolfriend. But the Casa Luna is a place where strange things happen & anyone who lives there risks unexpected joys & sorrows.
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