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In his most exhilarating novel yet, William Boyd transports you to the vibrant streets of sixties London, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession . . . 'William Boyd once again brings to the spy novel his particul...

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Gabriel Dax, travel writer and accidental spy, has found himself back in the shadows. Unable to resist the allure of his MI6 handler, Faith Green, he has returned to the that life of secrets and subterfuge, to that life of espionage. Under the gui...

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'Brilliant. A Citizen Kane of a novel' Daily Telegraph __________________________________ Meet John James Todd: Scotsman, auteur, Rousseau-fanatic - and 'subversive element' Born in 1899, John James Todd is one of the great, failed geniuses of the...

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WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE 'A brilliant storyteller . . . a book which stretches, tantalizes and delights' Financial Times _____________________________________ On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater ponder...

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Any Human Heart is William's Boyd's classic, bestselling novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth ...

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Britain's most beloved storyteller returns with a twisting adventure of obsessive love and elegant espionage . . . --- 'Extravagantly enjoyable' THE TIMES 'William Boyd once again brings to the spy novel his particular storytelling genius' MICK HE...

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'The ultimate in immersive fiction . . . magnificent' Sunday Times 'Highly readable, entirely engaging and frequently funny' Observer 'Perfectly pitched . . . A deft and resonant alchemy of fact and fiction, of literary myth and imagination' Guard...

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When the paper industry moved into the South in the 1930s, it confronted a region in the midst of an economic and environmental crisis. Entrenched poverty, stunted labor markets, vast stretches of cutover lands, and severe soil erosion prevailed a...

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In his most exhilarating novel yet, William Boyd transports you to the vibrant streets of sixties London, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession . . . 'William Boyd once again brings to the spy novel his particul...

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A new collection for 2025 of classic science fiction stories from a master of the genre, including the story that inspired Steven Spielberg's blockbuster film, AI: Artificial IntelligenceHello Earth, Are You There includes twenty-seven short stori...

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A new collection for 2025 of classic science fiction stories from a master of the genre, including the story that inspired Steven Spielberg's blockbuster film, AI: Artificial IntelligenceHello Earth, Are You There includes twenty-seven short stori...

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A primatologist flees her broken marriage for a job in war-torn Africa in the renowned author's "e;brilliant . . . stunningly magical"e; novel (Washington Post Book World). William Boyd's classic Brazzaville Beach has been called a "e;...

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William Boyd seems singularly blessed with both an innate love of storytelling and the talent to render those stories in swift, confident prose. The New York Times From William Boyd, award-winning author of Brazzaville Beach and Restless, comes a ...

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One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next tabl...

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Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor in town seeking psychotherapy for a troubling ailment of a sexual nature, becomes caught up in a feverish affair with a beautiful, enigmatic woman. When she goes to the police to press charges of ...

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This "e;thoroughly entertaining"e; historical novel has "e;the pace of a spy thriller, with code-cracking and double-crossing aplenty"e; (The New Yorker). Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor in town seeking psychothe...

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*The Sunday Times Bestseller* It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided by...

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Dirty Realism is the fiction of a new generation of American authors. They write about the belly-side of contemporary life - a deserted husband, an unwed mother, a car thief, a pickpocket, a drug addict - but they write about it with a disturbing ...

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Boris is a novella that works on several levels: a love-story, a tragedy, a depiction of pain and self-destruction. It is a moving and strangely understated chronicle of an obsession, but it is an obsession with political and historical implicatio...

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Travel writing is undergoing a revival: not since the 1920s and '30s has it been so popular or so important. What accounts for its sudden appeal? A need for escape? Nostalgia for an experience that means not tourism but adventure? Or does travel w...

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What is Milan Kundera's writing about? Sexual conquest and Russian tanks, arousal and totalitarian repression, infidelity and political betrayal, desire and the quiet tragedy of Europe. Kundera is a literary acrobat, a master of paradox and parody...

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Ten years ago, James Fenton went to Saigon, having made up his mind that, no matter what happened, he was not going to miss what he had travelled 10,000 miles to see: a Communist victory. And so he remained, long after the US troops and most membe...

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