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Hill House stood abandoned, six miles off the road. Four people came to learn its secrets – Dr Montague, an occult scholar; Luke, a spendthrift heir; Theodora, escaping a love affair; and Eleanor, who is lonely and vulnerable – to the house.
When the notorious investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn booked into Mr Chandler-Powell’s private clinic for the removal of a long-standing facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation and the beginning of a new life. Unfortunately, she was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive.
Of all the decisions a new parent makes, choosing that special name is the most significant and the most rewarding. A reference book for prospective parents, this clear, helpful and easy-to-use A-Z guide gives you thousands of suggestions for picking the perfect name for your new arrival.
This is a selection from Sontag’s early writings about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay, ‘On Style and Notes on Camp’, the book includes discussion of such figures as Sartre, Simone Weil and Genet.
Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In this book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an invigorating intellectual journey to show us what makes an extreme overachiever.
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence.
John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’ changed the way people thought about art and art criticism.
Having got rid of their human masters, the animals of Manor Farm look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite emerges and the other animals discover that they are not as equal as they thought.
The story of how countries are shocked – by wars, terror attacks, coup d’etats, economic crisis and natural disasters. And of how countries are then shocked again – by those who exploit that shock to push through economic reforms that, rather than help a country rebuild itself, serve only to further break it down.
Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut’s cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it.
This book challenges our assumptions about relationships between the classes, doctors and patients, men and women, and men and men. It completes the author’s exploration of the First World War, and is a timeless depiction of humanity in extremis.
It is 1918, and Prior is in London working as an intelligence officer. His concern is the enemy within – though a clear definition of who exactly the enemy is proves harder to come by than he might have imagined.
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