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On a windy spring day in the Chilterns, the calm, organized life of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he witnesses a tragic accident: a hot-air balloon ...
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In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic w...
Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent...
According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suff...
An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of t...
One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots, galvanized the nation, and created an extraordinary political, racial, social and c...
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. A chance pools win enables his to capture the art student Miranda and k...
Nanda Kaul is now old. She has chosen to spend her las years alone among the pines and cicadas, high in the mountains in a quiet house, wanting only to be left ...
Seymour `Swede' Levov -- a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's Newark glove factory -- ...
On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon...