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Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham – an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children there were tenderly sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe they were special, and that their personal welfare was crucial. But for what reason were they really there?
When Hanif Kureishi discovers an abandoned manuscript written by his father, his understanding of his family history is transformed. This story takes in the trauma of partition, as well as his father’s ultimately failed career as a writer.
This compelling story of Katherine Lind and Robin Fennel, of winter and summer, of war and peace, of exile and holidays, is memorable for its compassionate precision and for the curious and unmistakable distinction of its writing.
A story for adults about small boys, marooned on a coral island. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death.
Composed towards the end of the first millennium, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the great Northern epics and a classic of European literature. In his translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work which is both true, line by line, to the original poem, and an expression, in its language and music, of something fundamental to his own creative gift.
This is a collection of poems featuring works by Cope such as Bloody Men, Men and the Boring Arguments, and Two Cures for Love.
This collection of poems from T.S. Eliot will delight his many fans and will provide an accessible introduction to new readers.
Many of the poems in Ariel were written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963. It is the volume on which her reputation as one of the most original, daring and gifted poets of the 20th century rests.
In this story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of 20th century “Being”. The novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and embraces, it seems, all aspects of human existence.
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