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In the 1770s and 1780s Dr Johnson, having completed his life’s work, is running an increasingly chaotic life. Torn between his strict morality and his undeclared passion for the widow of an old friend, he is revealed here in all his wit and glory.
The Mitford Girls tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters – and the facts are sensational as any novel.
Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the tipping point, that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour cross a threshold, tip and spread like wildfire. His method provides a new way of viewing experiences and developing strategies.
Somewhere in the future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of Infinite Jest, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of catatonic bliss.
Tanios was a child of the mountains of Lebanon in the 19th century when the Egyptian Pashas were struggling against Ottoman domination. This novel traces Tanios’ life portraying the bitter history of a troubled land.
Accused of mocking the inviolate codes of Islam, Persian poet Omar Khayyam fortuitously finds sympathy with the very man who is to judge his alledged crime. He is spared, and thus begins the blend of fact and fiction that is ‘Samarkand’.
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