This is the tale of the coming of the Irish to Ireland, and of the men and women who made that emerald isle their own.

Een jonge vrouw heeft een open huwelijk, met diverse minnaars, maar als ze zwanger raakt is er toch een probleem.

The legends of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table have inspired some of the greatest works of literature--from Cervantes's Don Quixote to Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Although many versions exist, Malory's stands as the classic rendition. Malory wrote the book while in Newgate Prison during the last three years of his life; it was published some fourteen years later, in 1485, by William Caxton. The tales, steeped in the magic of Merlin, the powerful cords of the chivalric code, and the age-old dramas of love and death, resound across the centuries. The stories of King Arthur, Lancelot, Queen Guenever, and Tristram and Isolde seem astonishingly moving and modern. Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur endures and inspires because it embodies mankind's deepest yearnings for brotherhood and community, a love worth dying for, and valor, honor, and chivalry. "From the Trade Paperback edition."

'Memoirs of a Novelist' is a collection of five of Virginia Woolf's earliest stories. In them, she explores the role of women in society, and begins to perfect the stylistic form that would go on to define her later writing.

First published in England 1915, and following nearly a decade of composition, "The Voyage Out" is Virginia Woolf's first novel. Rachel Vinrace, the woman at the center of this beautiful and original story, is an intelligent, yet innocent, young English girl who embarks on a sea voyage to South America with distant relatives. Although she is far from the drawing rooms and theaters of London, she comes to learn of the worlds of politics and sex, love and marriage. Her journey takes a delicious turn when she meets -- and falls passionately for -- Terence Hewet, a man she meets in the Brazilian coastal town of Santa Marina. But it is in tragedy that this novel, poignant in its emotions, yet uncompromising in its vision, ultimately ends.

‘Graham Swift has shown that he has an authority - of style, characterization, grasp of life. These concentrated enigmatic stories address their subjects with such intelligent conviction and clarity that their ambiguities are not left to be stumbled on by the reader, but are challengingly displayed. They are like James’s stories in the way they apply an almost scientific analytical cleverness to the things in life which are forever vague, painful or imponderable’Times Literary Supplement ‘The ties that bind people, the good and bad things they do to each other, the happiness, embarrassment and the pain that they cause their friends, their partners, their children - these are Graham Swift’s chief concerns. He has a wide range; he can be delicately sensitive or outrageously funny. He is a born storyteller’Daily Telegraph

Introducing Paul O'Rourke: New Yorker, dentist and reluctant non-believer. Modern life disappoints him, and love never solves any of his problems. Then someone steals his identity and starts impersonating Paul online. A cruel invasion of privacy, the real horror is yet to come: this virtual 'Paul', preaching an obscure, ancient religion, might just be a better, happier person than the real deal. Anxious to find out who is responsible for this disturbing turn of events, Paul embarks on a quest which will see him confront the meaning of life, the inevitability of death and the importance of good oral hygiene. 'Fierce, pithy, unforgiving, very funny. Ferris's voice is unique.' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday 'Geek-smart and wry . . . hilarious.' Economist 'Some of the funniest, cleverest and kindest writing I have read in a long time.' The Times 'Riotously funny, as engrossing as it is uproarious.' Spectator 'Funny, heartbreaking, compelling, inventive. A delight.' Independent on Sunday