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.

One of Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 and an FT Best Book of the Year

Thought-provoking and deeply consoling, a perfectly distilled set of essays on the strangest year many of us have experienced, from one of our wisest and most humane thinkers

'As well as offering a new guide to living in a wild, messy and unfair world, Smith provides a reminder that we can use this crisis to imagine a better one' Evening Standard

Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time

From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more

'There will be many books written about the year 2020: historical, analytic, political and comprehensive accounts. This is not any of those - the year isn't half-way done. What I've tried to do is organize some of the feelings and thoughts that events, so far, have provoked in me, in those scraps of time the year itself has allowed. These are above all personal essays: small by definition, short by necessity.'

Crafted with the sharp intelligence, wit and style that have won Zadie Smith millions of fans, and suffused with a profound intimacy and tenderness in response to these unprecedented times, Intimations is a vital work of art, a gesture of connection and an act of love - an essential book in extraordinary times.

'Zadie Smith is a marvel - her soulfulness, her sensitivity, her ability to write . . . She doesn't try to make grand statements but just leaves you with the sense that you're in the company of someone who can help you feel things deeply' Tom Hollander in the Guardian

Quién es Aníbal Quevedo? Un loco, un caballero andante de la revolución o uno de los intelectuales comprometidos más importantes de la segunda mitad del siglo XX? Mezcla de novela política y de aventuras, de crítica del mundo intelectual y de farsa estructuralista, El fin de la locura es ante todo una cruel metáfora sobre el destino de la izquierda, el apasionante relato del derrumbe de la utopía revolucionaria. El periplo de Aníbal Quevedo, psicoanalista mexicano, se inicia en el París de mayo de 1968 y se prolonga a lo largo de más de veinte años hasta su regreso al México de Carlos Salinas de Gortari y el triunfo del neoliberalismo, donde conocerá a Rafael Guillén mucho antes de que éste asuma la personalidad del subcomandante Marcos, padecerá la seducción del poder y se verá arrastrado en un escándalo que pondrá fin a su locura. En medio, innumerables aventuras que lo relacionarán con algunas de las figuras más importantes del pensamiento francés —Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes y Michel Foucault— y que lo llevarán a sumarse a la Izquierda Proletaria, a viajar a Cuba para recibir entrenamiento guerrillero, a psicoanalizar a Fidel Castro y a viajar con él a Chile para entrevistarse con Allende, y a convertirse en crítico de arte y en escritor de culto. Tras su consagración internacional con En busca de Klingsor (Premio Biblioteca Breve 1999), Jorge Volpi demuestra de forma absolutamente brillante que una novela inteligente puede ser apasionante y divertida.