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  • Skippy Dies

    Skippy Dies

    Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.

    Daniel ‘Skippy’ Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys, nobody pays either of them much attention. But when Skippy falls for Lori, the frisbee-playing siren from the girls’ school next door, suddenly all kinds of people take an interest – including Carl, part-time drug-dealer and official school psychopath… A tragic comedy of epic sweep and dimension, Skippy Dies scours the corners of the human heart and wrings every drop of pathos, humour and hopelessness out of life, love, Robert Graves, mermaids, M-theory, and everything in between.

  • The Complete Fairy Tales

    The Complete Fairy Tales

    A complete collection of enchanting fairy tales from the acclaimed poet and playwright Oscar Wilde
    Celebrated as the writer of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde is equally beloved for his fairy tales, written ‘partly for children and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy’. With warmth, tenderness and quiet wit, these fables have moved and delighted for generations. In far-off kingdoms and ocean realms, in the company of giants and nightingales, Wilde speaks of heartbreak and redemption, of cruelty and compassion, of love lost, of love gained, of love everlasting.

    Rediscover here the complete stories from The Happy Prince and The House of Pomegranates, Wilde’s two fairy tale collections.

  • Slam

    Slam

    Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings: skating = skateboarding.

    There’s no ice. Life is ticking along nicely for Sam: his mum’s got rid of her rubbish boyfriend, he’s thinking about college and he’s met someone. Alicia.Then a little accident happens.

    One with big consequences for someone just finding his way in life. Sam can’t run (let alone skate) away from this one. He’s a boy facing a man’s problems and the question is – has he got what it takes to confront them?

  • The Secret History

    The Secret History

    Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together—my future, my past, the whole of my life—and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!’Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.

  • Bloody Awful in Different Ways

    Bloody Awful in Different Ways

    I’m fizzing. I love not being his son. Yes. I can feel it in my whole body. A great thrill – as if an adventure has begun. As if I’m the boy in a book about a boy who finds out his dad is the king of a magical and distant land.

    Christmas, 1983. In the aftermath of yet another furious argument, seven-year-old Andrev’s mother lets him in on a secret: his father is, in fact, not his father. And so begins a new kind of childhood, in which fathers come and go, arriving in red Volvos and sweeping his mother off her feet.

    Fathers can be magicians or murderers, artists or thieves, and, like growing pains, or the weather, they appear uninvited and leave without warning. Fathers are drawn to his mother like moths to a flame – but even she can’t control how they behave. Vivid and joyful, raw and tender, Bloody Awful in Different Ways is a novel about growing up in the chaos of social change; about how love begins and ends; and above all, about men.

    Because after all, you learn an awful lot about this strange species when you have seven fathers in seven years.

    Sono elettrizzato. Adoro non essere suo figlio. Sì. Lo sento in tutto il corpo. Un’emozione immensa, come se fosse iniziata un’avventura. Come se fossi il bambino in un libro che racconta la storia di un bambino che scopre che suo padre è il re di una terra magica e lontana.

    Natale, 1983. Dopo l’ennesima furiosa discussione, la madre di Andrev, sette anni, gli rivela un segreto: suo padre, in realtà, non è suo padre. E così inizia un nuovo tipo di infanzia, in cui i padri vanno e vengono, arrivando in Volvo rosse e facendo perdere la testa alla madre.

    I padri possono essere maghi o assassini, artisti o ladri e, come i dolori della crescita o il tempo, appaiono senza invito e se ne vanno senza preavviso. I padri sono attratti dalla madre come falene dalla fiamma, ma nemmeno lei può controllare il loro comportamento. Vivido e gioioso, crudo e tenero, Bloody Awful in Different Ways è un romanzo sulla crescita nel caos del cambiamento sociale; su come l’amore inizia e finisce; e soprattutto, sugli uomini.

    Perché, dopotutto, si impara moltissimo su questa strana specie quando si hanno sette padri in sette anni.

  • Until August

    Until August

    Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover.

    Amid sultry days and tropical downpours, lotharios and conmen, Ana journeys further each year into the hinterland of her desire, and the fear that sits quietly at her heart. Constantly surprising and wonderfully sensual, Until August is a profound meditation on freedom, regret, and the mysteries of love, from one of the greatest writers the world has ever known.

  • A Room with a View

    A Room with a View

    “But you do,” he went on, not waiting for contradiction.

    “You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it …”Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George. Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiancé Cecil Vyse.

    Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?

  • The Italians

    The Italians

    Sublime and maddening, fascinating yet baffling, Italy is a country of endless paradox and seemingly unanswerable riddles. John Hooper’s marvellously entertaining and perceptive book is the ideal companion for anyone seeking to understand contemporary Italy and the unique character of the Italians. Looking at the facts that lie behind – and often belie – the stereotypes, his revealing book sheds new light on many aspects of Italian life: football and Freemasonry, sex, symbolism and the reason why Italian has twelve words for a coat hanger, yet none for a hangover.

  • Glorious Rivals

    Glorious Rivals

    FIVE PLAYERS REMAIN.
    Seven Players arrived on Hawthorne Island to play a billionaire’s game. Now only five remain, and the race to the finish line is on.

    MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ARE AT STAKE.
    The heat turns up on the competition and between the players and it becomes increasingly clear that no one will emerge from the Grandest Game unscathed.

    BUT SO ARE HEARTS AND LIVES.

    For there are no coincidences. Everyone is a liar. And someone is watching…

    THE GAME IS ON.

  • Odyssey

    Odyssey

    After the fall of Troy, wily Odysseus, King of Ithaca, sails for home and his steadfast queen Penelope. However, the angry gods curse him to wander the seas for ten long years. Tormented by giants and monsters, tempted by witches and goddesses, Odysseus battles to draw ever closer to home.

    Awaiting him is Penelope, defying reports of his death. But this queen endures her own tormentors – an army of young suitors eager to claim her hand and the throne…

  • Lie With Me

    Lie With Me

    ust outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back to Philippe’s teenage years, to a winter morning in 1984, a small French high school, and a carefully timed encounter between two seventeen-year-olds. It’s the start of a secret, intensely passionate, world-altering love affair between Philippe and his classmate, Thomas.

  • Letters from Gaza. By the People, From the Year That Has Been

    Letters from Gaza. By the People, From the Year That Has Been

    LETTERS FROM GAZA is more than a book – it’s a voice from the silence, a heartbeat in the wreckage. Through poetry, letters, and monologues, 30 Gazans lay bare their fears, grief, and relentless hope amid devastation.

    As the year 2023 came to an end, and wistfulness filled the air with hopes for the new tidings; the whole world was left startled with the unfolding of the largest humanitarian crisis of this century.

    While we lamented at the visuals of unimaginable destruction, loss, and unsurmountable pain, there were people living that reality.

    Men, women, and children with plans for the weekend and dreams to fulfill; many wrapping their chores early to take a walk by the sea. Millions of such diverse individuals who were now only spoken of words wrapped in tragedy; all merged into one.

    Surviving war isn’t a blanket experience; there are many facets which remain unheard. This collection is pertinent in bringing focus to the diverse human stories behind the crisis, the emotions that rang loudly in the silence of the night, when the shutters went down and the dust had settled.

    Throughout the year, 30 people living in the Gaza strip, of varied ages and ethnographies, penned their feelings, fears, memories, thoughts, and hopes on the tempestuous days of war. Each story is a reminder of the world held within every person and how humanity at large was at stake with them.

    Collected and compiled by Mahmoud and Mohammed, two prolific writers in Gaza, this collection stands as a testament to unparalleled resilience and unveils the unimaginable emotional scars of war; leaving us overcome with tenderness and compassion.

  • The Betrothed

    The Betrothed

    Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are then cruelly separated, and must face many dangers including plague, famine and imprisonment, and confront a variety of strange characters – the mysterious Nun of Monza, the fiery Father Cristoforo and the sinister ‘Unnamed’ – in their struggle to be reunited. A vigorous portrayal of enduring passion, The Betrothed’s exploration of love, power and faith presents a whirling panorama of seventeenth-century Italian life and is one of the greatest European historical novels.
    Ambientato in Lombardia durante l’occupazione spagnola della fine degli anni Venti del Seicento, I Promessi Sposi racconta la storia di due giovani innamorati, Renzo e Lucia, a cui il tiranno Don Rodrigo, che desidera Lucia per sé, impedisce di sposarsi. Costretti a fuggire, vengono crudelmente separati e devono affrontare molti pericoli, tra cui peste, carestia e prigionia, e confrontarsi con una varietà di strani personaggi – la misteriosa Monaca di Monza, il focoso Padre Cristoforo e il sinistro “Innominato” – nella loro lotta per riunirsi. Un ritratto vigoroso di una passione duratura, l’esplorazione di amore, potere e fede de I Promessi Sposi offre un panorama vorticoso della vita italiana del XVII secolo ed è uno dei più grandi romanzi storici europei.

  • The Art of Joy

    The Art of Joy

    Goliarda Sapienza’s The Art of Joy was written over a nine year span, from 1967 to 1976. At the time of her death in 1996, Sapienza had published nothing in a decade, having been unable to find a publisher for what was to become her most celebrated work, due to its perceived immorality. One publisher’s rejection letter exclaimed: ‘It’s a pile of iniquity.’ The manuscript lay for decades in a chest finally being proclaimed a “forgotten masterpiece” when it was eventually published in 2005.

    This epic Sicilian novel, which begins in the year 1900 and follows its main character, Modesta, through nearly the entire span of the 20th century, is at once a coming-of-age novel, a tale of sexual adventure and discovery, a fictional autobiography, and a sketch of Italy’s moral, political and social past. Born in a small Sicilian village and orphaned at age nine, Modesta spends her childhood in a convent raised by nuns.Through sheer cunning, she manages to escape, and eventually becomes a princess. Sensual, proud, and determined, Modesta wants to discover the infinite richness of life and sets about destroying all social barriers that impede her quest for the fulfilment of her desires.

    She seduces both men and women, and even murder becomes acceptable as a means of removing an obstacle to happiness and self-discovery. Goliarda Sapienza (1924-1996) was born in Catania, Sicily in 1924, in an anarchist socialist family. At sixteen, she entered the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome and worked under the direction of Luchino Visconti, Alessandro Blasetti and Francesco Maselli.

  • The Bright Sword

    The Bright Sword

    When gifted young knight Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a place on the Round Table, he quickly discovers that he’s too late: the king died two weeks ago at the Battle of Camlann, and only a handful of the knights of the Round Table are left. The survivors aren’t the heroes of legend either, like Lancelot or Gawain. They’re the oddballs of the Round Table, like Sir Palomides, the Saracen Knight, and Sir Dagonet, Arthur’s fool, who was knighted as a joke.

    They’re joined by Nimue, who was Merlin’s apprentice until she turned on him and buried him under a hill. It’s up to them to rebuild Camelot in a world that has lost its balance, even as God abandons Britain and the fairies and old gods are returning, led by Morgan le Fay. They must reclaim Excalibur and make this ruined world whole again.

    But first they’ll have to solve the mystery of why the lonely, brilliant King Arthur fell. The first major Arthurian epic of the new millennium, The Bright Sword is a story about imperfect men and women who are looking for a way to fight darkness and reforge a broken land

  • The King’s Mother

    The King’s Mother

    1461. Through blood and battle Edward has gained England’s throne – king by right and conquest – eighteen years old and unstoppable.

    Cecily has piloted his rise to power and stands at his shoulder now, first to claim the title King’s Mother. But to win a throne is not to keep it and war is come again. As brother betrays brother, and trusted cousins turn treacherous, other mothers rise up to fight for other sons.

    Cecily must focus her will to defeat every challenge. Wherever they come from. Whatever the cost.

    For there can be only one King, and only one King’s Mother. From the Wars of the Roses to the dawn of the Tudor age, this is a story of mothers and sons; of maternal ferocity and female ambition – of all they can build and all they can destroy.

  • England : A Natural History

    England : A Natural History

    Now in paperback, with map and illustrations, England: A Natural History is the definitive volume on the English landscape and the capstone of John Lewis-Stempel’s nature writing. The English countryside is iconic: a series of distinctive habitats that unite to create a landscape that is unique for the rich diversity of our flora and fauna.

    In England, his most magisterial book to date, John Lewis-Stempel explores each in turn, taking us from coast to moor, from downs to field, from the park to the village to create a vivid living portrait of our natural history. In his trademark lyrical prose, Lewis-Stempel reveals the hidden workings of each habitat: the clear waters and dragonflies; the bluebells, badgers and stag beetles; wild thyme; granite cliffs; rock pools and sandy beaches; red deer standing at ancient oaks; the wayside flowers of the lane; hedgehogs and hares; and snow on the high peak. Each landscape – be it calm green or wild moor, plunging cliff or flatland fen – has shaped our idea of ourselves, our sense of what it is to be in England.

    In a stunning package, complete with decorated boards, endpapers, chapterheads and a map, England: A Natural History is the definitive volume on the English landscape and the capstone of John Lewis-Stempel’s nature writing.

  • The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

    The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

    For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world – a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice and Rome as providing the seeds of a new form of society, and traces the rise of the creative individual, from Dante to Michelangelo. A fascinating description of an era of cultural transition, this nineteenth-century masterpiece was to become the most influential interpretation of the Italian Renaissance, and anticipated ideas such as Nietzsche’s concept of the ‘Ubermensch’ in its portrayal of an age of genius.

  • The Letters of the Younger Pliny

    The Letters of the Younger Pliny

    Providing a series of fascinating views of Imperial Rome, The Letters of the Younger Pliny also offer one of the fullest self-portraits to survive from classical times. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Betty Radice. A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny was also a prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents such eminent figures as Tacitus, Suetonius and the Emperor Trajan, as well as a wide circle of friends and family.

    His lively and very personal letters address an astonishing range of topics, from a deeply moving account of his uncle’s death in the eruption that engulfed Pompeii, to observations on the early Christians – ‘a desperate sort of cult carried to extravagant lengths’ – from descriptions of everyday life in Rome, with its scandals and court cases, to Pliny’s life in the country. Betty Radice’s definitive edition was the forst complete modern translation of Pliny’s letters. In her introduction she examines the shrewd, tolerant and occasionally pompous man who emerges from these letters.

    Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (c. 61-113), better known as Pliny the Younger, and nephew of Pliny the Elder, was born in Como, Italy. Beginning his career at the bar when he was eighteen, Pliny managed to emerge unscathed from Domitian’s ‘reign of terror’, even being appointed an official at the treasury.

    In 103 he was awarded a priesthood in recognition of his distinguished public service, and was prominent in several major prosecutions. His nine books of personal letters were selected by Pliny himself and published during his lifetime, while his official correspondence with Trajan was published as a tenth book after his death and contains a celebrated exchange of letters on the early Christians. If you enjoyed The Letters of the Younger Pliny, you might like Tacitus’ The Annals of Imperial Rome, also available in Penguin Classics.

  • I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

    I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

    Hello to you, I am with news. I have a new book: I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest With You.

    I know – what an intriguing title!Basically, I have had an unexpectedly difficult decade – there have been surprising joys, but also deep revelations and challenging lows. I shall be honest about those, because what I discovered in the difficult times were my, what I call, treasures. Treasures – practical tools, values, ways, answers researched from some great scientists, neuroscientists, therapists, sociologists (all the ‘ists’) out there, that have genuinely led to a sense of freedom, joy, peace and physical recovery I never would have thought possible.

    Life now, amazingly, with what I will share, is – SUCH FUN! (always important to quote your own catch phrases. . .) If you fancy having a read, then I hope my story might help your story.

    After all, we are in this beautiful, mysterious, challenging life together. Rest assured there are funny stories along the way – we will have a laugh too, my dear reader chum. Oh, and I couldn’t possibly say if there is a love story in it… (There is – shush). Exciting.

  • In Too Deep (Jack Reacher 29)

    In Too Deep (Jack Reacher 29)

    Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had got there. But someone must have brought him.

    And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure.

    Jack Reacher wakes up, alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed.

    His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there.

    The last thing Reacher can recall is the car he hitched a ride in getting run off the road.

    The driver was killed.

    His captors assume Reacher was the driver’s accomplice and patch up his wounds as they plan to make him talk.

    A plan that will backfire spectacularly . . .

  • Playground

    Playground

    Playground follows four lives – a pioneering marine biologist, a free-spirited artist, and two polar opposites whose boyhood bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game sends one into literature and the other onto an AI breakthrough. In the world’s largest ocean, the four are reunited on a history-scarred French Polynesian island chosen as the site for seasteading – sending floating, autonomous cities into the open sea. Standing on the shores of the last wild place yet to be colonised, the residents must first vote to decide if their home will become the launchpad for humanity’s next great adventure.

  • Not Quite Dead Yet

    Not Quite Dead Yet

    In seven days Jet Mason will be dead. Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont.

    Twenty-seven years old, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. She’ll do it later, she always says. She has time.

    Until, on the night of Halloween, Jet is violently attacked by an unseen intruder. She suffers a catastrophic brain injury. The doctor is certain that within a week, she’ll suffer a deadly aneurysm.

    Jet never thought of herself as having enemies. But now she looks at everyone in a new light: her family, her ex-best friend turned sister-in-law, her former boyfriend. She only has seven days, and as her condition deteriorates she has only her childhood friend Billy for help.

    But nevertheless, she’s absolutely determined to finally finish something:Jet is going to solve her own murder.

  • God of War

    God of War

    Ever since Eli King broke Ava Nash’s teenage heart, the pair have hated one another. That is, until Ava wakes up in a hospital bed with no memory of the last two years and Eli holding her hand.

    According to him, they’re married. Eli is obsessed with Ava, and now, with her memory in pieces, he’s determined to make her his for good. As Ava navigates this twisted new reality, she must unravel how she ended up tied to her sworn enemy.

    What she doesn’t realise is that there’s no escape from this marriage. Eli will stop at nothing to claim what’s his. This book is a dark unconventional romance and contains themes that aren’t to everyone’s liking.