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When a trench is dug down the middle of a Gaulish village, a mighty war breaks out between the left and the right hand sides of town. Asterix and Obelix are called in to make peace, which proves to be very difficult when the Romans are involved.
Asterix’s village has got oil fever – Getafix can’t make the magic potion without it and Asterix and Obelix have been sent to far off lands to find a supply. But their party is infiltrated by an undercover druid who has plans of his own.
A strange baby is left on Asterix’s front door step and attempts to find his mother turn the village upside down. Adventures ensue as the baby develops a taste for the magic potion and everybody wants to claim parentage of this special infant.
‘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.
Tender is the Night is based upon the author’s unhappy marriage, and was written as he was experiencing the tragedies of his wife’s nervous breakdown and his own decline.
Toru Watanabe is looking back on the love and passions of his life and trying to make sense of it all. As his first love, Naoko, sinks deeper and deeper into mental despair, he is inexorably pushed to find new meanings and new love to survive.
The Bean Trees is a classic novel of a young woman’s voyage of discovery across the Midwest. Barbara Kingsolver is also the author of Animal Dreams, Pigs in Heaven, The Poisonwood Bible, and Homeland, a short story collection.
This text shows how to live a better life by living in the present moment. If we are able to be fully present and take each step in the now, we will be opening ourselves to the experience of the power of now.
One of the most talked about debut novels of all time, ‘White Teeth’ is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing – among many other things – with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book.
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of The Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his flair for spotting ace reporters. Acting on a dinner party tip he feels convinced he has found a chap to cover a little war in Ishmaelia.
Hemingway’s passion for Spain and the bullfight is renowned. This book contains some of the finest short stories Hemingway ever wrote, inspired by the intense life as well as the inevitable death of those hot, violent afternoons.
Set in the 50 years after the Civil War, this novel tells the story of the Trasks and the Hamiltons. Adam Trask marries Kate. When she abandons him and their twin sons to run an infamous brothel, the family is consumed in a bitter struggle.
Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. It tells of the Joad family who travel West in search of the promised land, and find only broken dreams.
Inspired by Jane Eyre, Wild Sargasso Sea is Jean Rhys’s powerful and compassionate story of Antoinette Cosway who is haunted by her brother’s death and the madness of her mother and who is trapped in an unstable marriage.
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