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Intuition is not some magical and mysterious property that arises unbidden from the depths of our mind. This book shows us how we can hone our instinctive ability to know in an instant, helping us to bring out the best in our thinking and become better decision-makers in our everyday life.
‘Things Fall Apart’ tells the story of Okonkwo, an important man in the Igbo tribe in the days when white men were first on the scene. Okonkwo becomes exiled from his tribe, as a result of his pride and his fears, with tragic consequences.
The scene is a dinner party for the literati of Athens, the action a series of speeches by the guests. From these there emerges a complete and complex philosophy of love. Christopher Gill’s translation retains all the drama and humour of the Greek, bringing the historical figures to life.
Following ‘The English Assassin’ and ‘The Confessor’, this is the final novel in the trilogy to feature art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon. In ‘A Death in Vienna’, Allon is sent to Vienna to discover the truth behind a bombing which killed an old friend – a Nazi hunter.
A sensitive and humble mind, trained in the Stoic philosophy, Marcus Aurelius recorded his thoughts, musings and maxims whilst on duty with the Roman army as it fought the advancing barbarians.
When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he begins to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful young woman up at the hall. He becomes drawn deeper and deeper into their dangerous game of deceit and desire, until his role brings him to a shocking and premature revelation.
Hidden away in the Record Department of the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party.
Combined here are ‘Maus, A Survivor’s Tale’ and ‘Maus II’ – the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler’s Europe. By addressing the Holocaust through cartoons, the author captures the everyday reality of fear and the sensation of survival.
Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. A small blip in a huge worldwide network of desire. It is his business to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them, occasionally fake them, and all to give people what they want – a little piece of fame.
‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ is one of the great popular novels of all time and a landmark in the development of modern popular fiction. Robin Buss’s lively English translation remains faithful to the style of Dumas’s original.
When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya is placed under suspicion; Ivan’s mental tortures drive him to breakdown; Alyosha tries to heal the family’s rifts; and there is always the shadow of their bastard half-brother, Smerdyakov.
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