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Elise loves the farm that is her home; she loves playing with beetles and chameleons in the garden, buying sweets from the village shop and listening to the stories of spirits and charms told by her nanny, Beauty. As a young white girl in 1990s Zimbabwe, her life is idyllic.

* The world of medieval chivalry is at once glamorous and violent, alluring yet alien.* Nigel Saul charts the introduction of chivalry by the Normans, the rise of the knightly class as a social elite, the fusion of chivalry with kingship in the fourteenth century and the influence of chivalry on literature, religion and architecture.

Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village of Azinhaga, Jose Saramago was only eighteen months old when he moved with his father and mother to live in a series of cramped lodgings in a working-class neighbourhood of Lisbon.

A book with humour, wit and pathos and featuring a cast of characters, from an eccentric father, a mischievous family dog and a down-and-out ex-schoolmaster to curious stars of Swinging London like Mick Jagger and Tommy Cooper.

Two women journalists - one old (Honor Tait), one young (Tamara Sim), one a veteran war correspondent, the other a writer of celebrity gossip - meet for the first time. When Sim is sent to interview Tait, their mutual incomprehension generates a seam of dark comedy. But when their different worlds finally collide, the consequences are devastating.

Volume 10 of The Complete Works of George OrwellThis volume begins with Orwell's letters home from St. Cyprian's Preparatory School from the age of eight.

A biography of a book and its hero, the story of Daniel Defoe, the man who wrote Robinson Crusoe, and of Robert Knox, the man who was Crusoe. It explores the intertwined lives of two real men: Daniel Defoe and Robert Knox and the character and book that emerged from their peculiar conjunction.

Eva is walking by the river with her seven-year-old daughter when they catch sight of a man's body in the water. Eva tells her daughter to wait while she calls the police, but when she reaches the phone box she doesn't call them. Instead she phones her father, and makes no mention of her discovery. Until, one night, Eva receives a phone call...

A novel about a young woman discovering who she is and where she belongs.

As Kertesz's narrator addresses the child he couldn't bear to bring into the world, he takes readers on a mesmerising, lyrical journey through his life, from his childhood to Auschwitz to his failed marriage.

Includes stories that are set in the gruelling camps and sweltering training fields that marked the limbo point between civilian life and the horrors of war. This collection focuses on young men who, always conscious of the imminence of action, try to maintain their sanity in the wake of their abrupt removalfrom normal life.

Focusing on love and loss, this book celebrates friendship, reading, love of children and the consolations of a landscape.

Jack and Joy Griffin are back on Cape Cod - where they spent their hope-filled honeymoon - for a wedding. He's spent a lifetime trying to be happier than his parents, but has he succeeded?A year later, at a second wedding, Jack has a second urn in the car, and his life is starting to unravel.

Liam Pennywell has spent most of his life dodging issues and skirting adventure when suddenly, in his sixty-first year, something happens that jolts him out of his certainty and leaves him with a frightening gap in his memory.

Segev is able to reveal the intriguing secrets of Wiesenthal's life, including his stunning role in the capture of Adolf Eichmann, his controversial investigative techniques, his unlikely friendships with Kurt Waldheim and Albert Speer, and the nature of his rivalry with Elie Wiesel.

When Rosie, a successful radio presenter, hears that her father has had a stroke, her life is thrown into disarray and she finds herself making reckless decisions that make little sense to those around her. As she strives towards building some kind of future for herself and her father, he quietly plots his own death...

Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is the bane of the old, the hero of the young. During one hot summer, Tom witnesses a murder, runs away to be a pirate, attends his own funeral, rescues an innocent man from the gallows, searches for treasure in a haunted house, foils a devilish plot and discovers a box of gold.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID AARONOVITCHThe Communist Manifesto was first published in London, by two young men in their late twenties, in 1848.

The scientific quest to fathom the mysteries of altruism encompasses sneaky amoebas and Russian anarchists, sentry gazelles and tyrannical despots, brain imaging, Game Theory, the Bomb and the Holy Bible.

Leela is moving back to Delhi from New York. She knows her return will unsettle precariously balanced lives. Twenty-two years ago her sister was seduced by Vyasa, a young university lecturer. Now an eminent Sanskrit scholar, Vyasa is preparing for the unlikely marriage of his son, Ash, to the child of a Hindu nationalist.

It's been a year since Gio's daughter died, but the loss still carves away at him. As a district attornery, many cases cross his desk, but one where a young girl was shot uncovers the rage in him and Gio lurches towards an act that could mean destruction.

Or said he thought he was...'James and Katherine meet at a wedding in London. It is January 2006, towards the end of the money-for-nothing years, and James is a man with a varied past - entrepreneur, estate agent, film producer, horse-racing tipster, former dot com millionaire - now living alone in a flat in Bloomsbury.

Moscow in the 1930s is the consummate symbol of the Soviet paradise, a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalin's words, 'life has become better, life has become merrier'. This title exposes the gulf between this premature triumphalism and the harsh reality of low living standards and even lower expectations.

On 19 August 1936, Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coruna and watches Fascist soldiers piling up books and setting them alight. Out of this incident during the early months of Spain's tragic civil war, the author weaves a tapestry of stories and unforgettable characters to create a panorama of twentieth-century Spanish history.

The year is 1895, Jaffa. Salah Rajani, a troubled Muslim boy living in a dilapidated mansion surrounded by orange groves, suffers from peculiar visions about a disaster which is set to befall his people. His life is changed by the arrival of a handsome young man, a dynamic Jewish settler, new to the city, by the name of Isaac Luminsky.

Bathsheba Everdene arrives in the small village of Weatherbury and captures the heart of three very different men: Gabriel Oak, a quiet shepherd, the proud, obdurate Farmer Boldwood and dashing, unscrupulous Sergeant Troy.

Bella Wallis' long and half-acknowledged engagement to Westland is beginning to strain as his own shadowy job, working for the government, continually takes him abroad. And then there's the matter of his sister's incarceration in a French nunnery about which he refuses to say a word.

Singapore - a trading post where different lives jostle and mix. As the years pass, and the Second World War sweeps through the east, with the Japanese occupying Singapore, the three are thrown together in unexpected ways, and tested to breaking point.

Things: A Story of the Sixties is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know how to do so is through ownership of 'things'.

Superb and surprising new fiction is found in this major new collection from the Australian master. A man named Huebler decides to photograph everyone alive. It is clear in all these remarkable stories that Murray Bail - already celebrated for his novels - has also extended the manifold possibilities of short fiction.