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Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Includes a new forward by the screenwriter Mary Bing In Anton Chekhov?s The Duel the escalating animosity between two men with opposed philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a seedy resort on the Black Sea coast. Laevsky is a dissipated romantic given to gambling and flirtation; he has run off with another man?s wife, the beautiful but vapid Nadya, and now finds himself tiring of her. The scientist von Koren is contemptuous...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
This is a vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real and belonging to a now distant past.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Staff Pick:
I think if you like Virginia Woolf, you might enjoy this story of obsession. It is alike to some stream-of-consciousness narratives. The descriptive language is beautiful and Murdoch’s writing immerses you in the mind of Charles Arrowby.
Picked by Georgia
11) Ways of escape
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
With skill and feeling, Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of a long and extraordinary life. He has travelled like an explorer, and he recalls his time in the British Secret Service in Africa, and his brief involvement in Hollywood.
13) Great Northern?
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dick's birdwatching discovery turns the cruise of the Sea Bear into a desperate chase. The Swallows and Amazons have to prove the facts of the case, & evade the natives & an egg-collector, determined to kill a pair of rare birds & steal the credit.
14) Winter holiday
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
For Dick and Dorothea, newcomers to the lake, meeting up with the Swallows and Amazons sweeps them into a wild adventure where they must prove their worth to the team.
15) Peter Duck
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The Swallows and Amazons are sailing with Nancy and Peggy's Uncle Jim (better known as Captain Flint) when their hired deckhand tells them a tale of his younger days - a tale to set pulses racing and hopes shooting sky high.
18) Native son
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A novel about a young man who is hardened by life in the slums and whose every effort to free himself proves hopeless. An Ebony Read Top 100 book.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Drawing on the works of Lucretius, Ovid, Flaubert, Kundera and others, Italo Calvino pinpoints the universal laws and literary values which he feels future generations might cherish - lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility and multiplicity.
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