It Is 1988, The Year In Which America Is Whipped Into A Frenzy Of Prurience By The Impeachment Of A President, And In A Small New England Town, It Is The Last Year Of The Life Of The Forcibly Retired, Disgraced, Widowed Professor Coleman Silk, Whose Own Tragic Exposure Is Played Out Against The Background Of The Clinton Revelations.Coleman'S Secret Has Been Kept For Fifty Years From His Wife, His Four Children, His Colleagues, And His Friends, Including The Writer Nathan Zuckerman, Who Sets Out - After Coleman'S Suspicious Death In A Car Crash With His Mistress - To Understand How His Eminent, Upright Man, Esteemed As An Educator For Nearly All His Life, Had Fabricated His Identity And How That Cannily Controlled Life Came Unravelled. Set In 1990S America Where Conflicting Moralities And Ideological Divisions Are Made Manifest Through Public Denunciation And Rituals Of Purification, The Human Stain Concludes Philip Roth'S Eloquent Trilogy Of Post-War American Lives That Are As Tragically Determined By The Nation'S Fate As By The 'Human Stain' That So Ineradicably Marks Human Nature.

'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.' This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hosts the MacDonalds at the Massacre of Glencoe. It was a bloody incident which had deep repercussions and was the beginning of the destruction of the Highlanders. John Prebble�s masterly description of the terrible events at Glencoe was praised as �Evocative and powerful� in the Sunday Telegraph.

Een in Europa wonende Amerikaanse psychiater trouwt met een van zijn patienten, wier schizofrenie hij weet te genezen, hetgeen echter tot zijn eigen ondergang leidt.

Story of a group of young and not-so-young people living within reach of the Golden Gate Bridge, California, written in narrative verse

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When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future.

Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the modern-day world with his prophetic fantasy. He scrutinizes threats to humanity, such as overpopulation, propaganda, and chemical persuasion, and explains why we have found it virtually impossible to avoid them. Brave New World Revisited is a trenchant plea that humankind should educate itself for freedom before it is too late.

A reissue of the tour de force by the Nobel laureate that is " a vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes" ("The New York Times Book Review"). It opens during the London blitz, when a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire; that child, Matty, becomes a wanderer and a seeker. Two more lost children await him, twins as exquisite as they are loveless. In a final conflagration, William Golding' s book lights up both the inner and outer darknesses of our time.

A brilliant novel...at its centre is a real-life encounter that occurred at Craiglockhart in 1917 between W.H.R. Rivers, an army psychologist, and Siegfried Sassoon...Intense and subtle, getting responsively under the skin of both real and imagined characters, Regenerationis receptive to all aspects of the era - and the heroes - it resurrects - - Peter Kemp, Sunday Times

A debut novel set in the 18th century at a time of social turmoil in England, with rumours of revolution in France. Follows the fate of a sixteen-year-old girl, an orphan who believes she was born a devil-child and turns to a quack doctor in hope of a cure.

Let Hitch knot your nerves into a noose

Mystery series 22

Computer expert Cat Velis is heading for a job to Algeria. Before she goes, a mysterious fortune teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years...In the South of France in 1790 two convent girls hide valuable pieces of a chess set all over the world, because the game that can be played with them is too powerful....

Peter Alan Nelsen is a super-successful movie director who is used to getting what he wants. And what he wants now is to find the wife and infant child he dumped on the road to fame. It's the kind of case that Cole could handle in his sleep, except that when Cole actually finds Nelsen's ex-wife, everything takes on nightmarish proportions - a nightmare which involves Cole with a nasty New York mob family and a psycho killer who is the son of the godfather. And when the unpredictable Nelsen charges in, an explosive situation blows sky-high.

A New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Pulitzer Prize 2000. Winner of the PEN-Hemingway AwardNotable Book of the Year: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, and Publishers WeeklyThe nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. Imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, these stories speak with passion an wisdom to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner. Like the interpreter of the title story, Lahiri translates between the strict traditions of her ancestors and a baffling new world.

The Actual features Harry Trellman, a Chicago man who, after a lifetime of making money, has become a 'first class noticer', and realises he has been in love with Amy Wurstin since his high school days.