A novel about an obscure but decisive moment in World War I, revolving around two English brothers whose love for each other and their country is sorely tested when they fall in love with the same woman. Winner of England's Whitbread Prize and nominated for the Booker.
All Henderson Dores dreams of is fitting in. But America, land of the loony millionaire and the subway poet, down-home Bible-basher and sharp-suited hood, of paralyzing personal frankness and surreally fantasized facilities, is hard enough for an Englishman to fit in to. Henderson could never shed enough inhibitions to become just another weirdo. ...
This book is the winner of the 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award Los Angeles 1936. Kay Fischer, a young, ambitious architect, is shadowed by Salvador Carriscant, an enigmatic stranger claiming to be her father. Within weeks of their first meeting, Kay will join him for an extraordinary journey into the old man's past, initially in search ...
In this absorbing historical thriller . . . Sally Gilmartin, born Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian emigree recruited into the British Secret Service in 1939, reveals her clandestine past in an autobiography that she gives to her daughter, Ruth, a graduate student and single mother living a dull civilian life in Oxford in 1976.--"The New Yorker."
"The New Confessions" is the outrageous, extraordinary, hilarious and heartbreaking autobiography of John James Todd, a Scotsman born in 1899 and one of the great self-appointed (and failed) geniuses of the twentieth century. 'An often magnificent feat of story-telling and panoramic reconstruction...John James Todd's reminiscences carry us through ...
Like gold nuggets amongst pebbles, the more than 200 images reproduced in this book include many of transcendent beauty and psychological insight, all with the magical, mysterious charge that comes from using our own imaginations to spectulate on the circumstances in which they were taken. Superbly produced with an introduction by internationally ...
Generally used in the second course in taxation, this book focuses primarily on taxation as it applies to corporations, partnerships, trusts and estates. The authors provide comprehensive coverage of relevant code and regulations, as well as all major developments in federal taxation.
Nine journals recording a turbulent life, kept through the years by Logan Mountstuart, a man who is born in South America (son of a British executive there), is educated at Oxford, and serves as a reporter during the Spanish Civil War. He hangs out with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Picasso, and works with Ian Fleming in British Intelligence, and by ...
Brazzaville Beach is in Africa, and a young Englishwoman has taken refuge there to escape her marriage and her career. Winner of the 1990 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
In William Boyd's collection of 14 stories, there are many about people in the movie business, among them "Notebook No. 9" and the erotic "The View from Yves Hill." Other stories include "A Haunting" (in which a 21st-century man is inhabited by the spirit of a long-dead Scot) and "Incandescence" (which tells its story from multiple points of view) ...
The eleventh edition of "Boyd's Introduction to the Study of Disease" now contains a substantial amount of material in the appendices - condensing the material in the text - making it a great resource for the student already familiar with normal physiology and essential biology. New to this edition is information on: the cytoskeleton, care of the ...
In spite of his weakness for women and alcohol, Morgan Leafy perseveres in his position as representative of the crown in the tropical African country of Kinjanja, until the corruption he encounters requires more than the usual bribery for him to emerge unscathed.
A young woman architect named Kay Fischer is approached by a mysterious old man who claims to be her father and who wishes her to accompany him on a search for his lost love. En route, he tells Kay the story of her strange parentage, and of a violent passion that consumed his life. Gradually, Kay becomes intrigued by, and then fascinated with, the ...
On the heels of Boyd's Costa (formerly Whitbread) Award winner, "Restless," an erudite and entertaining collection of essays and opinions from one of our generation's most talented writers. "Plant one bamboo shoot--cut bamboo for the rest of your life." William Boyd's prolific, fruitful career is a testament to this old Chinese saying. Boyd ...
One winter morning Lorimer Black goes to keep a business appointment and finds a hanged man. This is just the start of what turns out to be a horrendous period for Lorimer as he realizes that he's being set up at work and cast adrift outside the office. This is a very funny novel with its dark side that shows a good man being boxed in and unable ...
This volume is a practical and well-illustrated "how-to" guide to a variety of techniques for eliminating facial lines and wrinkles. The book provides step by step instructions on the use of retinoids, fruit acids, chemical peels, laser skin resurfacing, augmentation, implants, and other options. Coverage also includes an overview of surgical ...
Now, in this engrossing historical narrative, bill boyd brings an American hero to life, from his boyhood under Spanish colonialism to the tumultuous years when he led six countries to freedom. It is a story filled with unforgettable characters, tempestuous love affairs, rousing adventures, and a journey through a piece of history few in the U.S. ...
This in-depth study of grassroots politics - 'micropolitics' - in schools, which includes examples from the UK and the USA, explores how teachers, administrators and their students use political power to protect their interests and to bring about change in the status quo.
For many years, congregations have been inspired, challenged, and charmed by the homilies given by the monks who live at St. Benedict's Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado. This collection of homilies captures the vitality, wit, and spiritual wisdom of Abbot Joseph Boyle, Father Theophane Boyd, Father William Meninger, and Abbot Thomas Keating as they ...
Adolescent sex in a Scottish boys' public school ...Oddballs on the seedy side of America ...Murder in a quiet Devon cottage ...Comical, ironical or lacerating - wit is the keynote of these stories, which include two early adventures from the career of Morgan Leafy, glorious anti-hero of William Boyd's prize-winning novel "A Good Man in Africa". ...
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