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Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize. Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But ... More

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For 50 years, from a summer afternoon of 1913 to the 1960s, an Anglo-Irish family, the Godwins, live through a cycle of passion, madness and death ... More

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Award-winning writer Paul Theroux explores the darker underside of the community of expatriates in South-East Asia in his compelling and strikingly ... More

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A search for Simon, the heir to a substantial inheritance, results in two claimants as well as a number of disappointed people. When one of the ... More

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"There are so few genuinely entertaining novels around that we ought to cheer whenever one turns up. Continuous, fizzing energy. . . .Honey for the ... More

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The story is that of disillusioned and stale Hollywood scriptwriter Gregory Dawson. A chance encounter in a Cornish hotel sends him back to the ... More

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Guests are circulating in a haze of gin-rickies, blue movies, uppers, downers and inside-outers. Friday melts into Saturday, Saturday spirals into ... More

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The first Washington Square Press fiction original gives the poignant story of a boy coming of age in the Appalachian mountain town of Crum, West ... More

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A novel in which a young man travels from his Midlands home to Oxford University, and finds himself out of his depth in its rarefied atmosphere.

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Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science - ... More

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"Don't Tell Alfred" is the wickedly funny sequel to Nancy Mitford's "The Pursuit of Love" and "Love in a Cold Climate". "I believe it would have been ... More

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In a rural French village an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring ... More

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Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, "All About H. Hatterr" is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has ... More

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YOU CAN TAKE THE MAN OUT OF THE GUTTER, BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE THE GUTTER OUT OF THE MAN Low life writer and alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive ... More

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A scintillating novel of fate, accidents, and moral dilemmas Set in the time of the Vietnam War, this story concerns the plight of a young American ... More

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Hurtle Duffield is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The men and women who court him during his long life are, above all, the ... More

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A spy thriller with a villain who makes the Devil look like a vicar, a beautiful girl with a technique that makes the "Kama Sutra" look like a kid's ... More

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