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This adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song by actor and writer Alastair Cording was first toured throughout Scotland by TAG (Theatre About Glasgow) in the early...
For years, it had been what is called a "deteriorating situation." Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family - liberal white...
As a depiction of South Africa, this novel is more revealing than a thousand news dispatches as it tells the story of a young woman cast in the role of a young revolutiona...
This is a novel by the author of "A New History of Torments", "The Fiction of Reality" and "Figures of Enchantment". It features the character Urim who wanders the world, ...
Drama teacher Joy Stone is losing her grip. In an intriguing story of the onset and evolution of depression, her problems accumulate, denial activates, and food becomes a ...
Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire Trilogy defies categorization—or perhaps creates its own. It is a passionate, razor-sharp, lyrical history of North and South America, fro...
In the middle of the night, a woman awakens to find a stranger in her bedroom. Though she cannot determine who he is--or, indeed, whether he is even real at all and not ju...
Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate '...
This novel is semi-autobiographical and based on the author's own experience of traveling with her mother Bernadine Coverley, in North Africa, between the ages of four and...
Simon is an ordinary boy growing up in Sweden; at least until World War II is declared; until he befriends the traumatised Jewish boy Isak; and until he learns that he is ...
Der sagenumwobene markische Stechlinsee ist der grosse Mitakteur in Fontanes letztem Roman, einem der schonsten Bekenntnisbucher der deutschen Literatur. Erneuerung durch ...
Познакомьтесь - Джеймс Бонд. Безупречный, блестяще образованный красавец. Абсолютно безжалостен и смертельно опасен. Это первый роман Йена Флеминга об агенте 007. Он повес...
Robert Ross, a sensitive nineteen-year-old Canadian officer, went to war - the War to End All Wars. He found himself in the nightmare world of trench warfare; of mud and s...
Последний роман Генри Филдинга (1707—1754), увидевший свет в 1751 г. Русский перевод романа впервые был осуществлён П. Ф. Бергом (с французского перевода М. Ж. Рикобони) в...
Заключительная часть неаполитанского квартета возвращает Лену и Лилу в родной квартал – с его грязью, невежеством и жестокостью. Элена уезжает из Флоренции с Нино Сарратор...
Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh’s radiant second novel follows an English family and a Bengali family as their lives intertwine across the generations in bo...
Grandma Eleni says it's my name, Astradeni, that's to blame, because Astradeni means 'the one who binds the stars.' And who, other than a fairy creature, can bind the star...
Set on and around a North Dakota reservation, ‘Love Medicine’ tells the story of the Lamartines and the Kashpaws – two extraordinary families whose fates are united and su...
'I hope the slave trade may be abolished. I pray it may be an event at hand.'
Published a few days before the British parliament first debated the abolition of the slav...
