Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:22:44 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/violet-hour-the-26-114349.html Johnny Angel is found brutally murdered with a dead prostitute in his bed and a needle full of heroin in his arm. It’s all the more shocking because he’s a priest. But when Dr Bennett Marc Crane, a prestigious plastic surgeon, is the next victim of a vicious attack of the same manner, it becomes clear that there is a serial killer on the loose… And as this homicidal maniac exacts his vengeance upon more innocent victims, evidence of another long-buried crime is uncovered. One that starts with a Halloween celebration at an exclusive college party twenty years ago and ends with a murderous plan for delayed revenge. For Nicky Stella, a hungry journalist, this is just the sort of sordid story that could land him a cover article. But when he digs a bit too deep, the killer’s attention turns towards Nicky and he must find the killer before he becomes the next victim…

Author: Montanari, Richard  Publisher: Arrow]]> Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/fine-balance-b--26-304.html Set in mid-1970s India, a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the government declares a 'State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breathtaking achievement: panoramic yet humane, intensely political yet rich with local delight.

Author: Mistry, Rohinton  Publisher: FABER AND FABER]]> Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/such-a-long-journey-26-305.html Such a Long Journey is set in Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling the story of the peculiar way in which the conflict impinges on the lives of Gustad Noble, an ordinary man, and his family. Such a Long Journey is a brilliant first novel by one of the most remarkable writers to have emerged from the Indian literary tradition in many years. It was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, and won the 1992 Commonwealth Writers Prize

Author: Mistry, Rohinton  Publisher: FABER AND FABER]]> Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/tales-from-firozsha-baag-26-310.html An introduction to the residents of Firozsha Baag, an apartment complex in Bombay. We enter the daily routine and rhythm of their lives, and by the time we reach the final story we are as familiar with the people as we are with our own neighbours. The crowded, throbbing life of India is brilliantly captured in this series of stories.

Author: Mistry, Rohinton  Publisher: FABER AND FABER]]> Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/summing-up-26-42974.html Autobiographical without being an autobiography, confessional without disclosing his private self, The Summing Up, written when Maugham was sixty-four, is an inimitable expression of a personal credo. It is not only a classic avowal of a professional author's ideas about style, literarture, art, drama and philosophy, but also an illuminating insight into this great writer's craft.

Author: Maugham, W Somerset  Publisher: Vintage Classics]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/points-of-view-26-50646.html Eclectic and illuminating, the essays collected in this volume were the last to be published by Somerset Maugham. They range from an appreciation of Goethe's novels, to an encounter with an Indian holy man, criticism of three journalists, and a considered  analysis of the short-story, a form at which Maugham himself excelled.

Author: Maugham, W Somerset  Publisher: Vintage Classics]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/vagrant-mood-the-26-50651.html "The Vagrant Mood" is a brilliantly varied and colourful collection of essays. From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from the legend of Zurbaran to the art of the detective story; from Burke to Augustus Hare, Maugham brings his inimitable mastery of the incisive character sketch to the genre of literary criticism.

Author: Maugham, W Somerset  Publisher: Vintage Classics]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/malayan-trilogy-26-88098.html Satiric trilogy about the last days of English Colonialism in Malaya in 1950s. Like all good comic writers Mr Burgess lives his creations as much as he writes them. First class nObservernnAnthony Burgess was an officer in the Colonial Service.In The Malayan Trilogy - Time for a Tiger, The Enemy in the Blanket and Beds in the East he satirises the dog days of colonialism. Victor Crabbe is a well meaning, ineffectual English man in the tropics, keen to teach the Malays what the West can do for them. Through Crabbe s rise and fall and a series of wonderfully colourful characters, Burgess lays bare racial and social prejudices of post-war Malaya during the upheaval of Independence.

Author: Burgess, Anthony  Publisher: Vintage Classics]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/while-the-women-are-sleeping-26-114351.html Celebrated as one of the greatest writers of his generation, Javier Mar

Author: Marias, Javier  Publisher: Chatto & Windus]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/writer-s-notebook-a-26-114352.html From 1892, when he was eighteen, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. It is without doubt one of his most important works. Part autobiographical, part confessional, packed with observations, confidences, experiments and jottings it is a rich and exhilarating admission into this great writer's workshop

Author: Maugham, W Somerset  Publisher: Vintage Classics]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-japanese-lover-26-114307.html A breathtaking and absorbing saga set in Malaya and propelled by the superb storytelling of the author of "The Rice Mother" Parvathi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaya and an arranged marriage to a wealthy businessman. But her father has cheated, supplying a different girl's photograph, and Kasu Marimuthu, furious, threatens to send her home in disgrace. Gradually husband and wife reach an accommodation, and the naive young girl learns to assume the air of sophisticated mistress of a luxurious estate. She even adopts his love child and treats Rubini as her own daughter--a generous act that is rewarded by a long-wished-for son. But it is a life without passion, and Parvathi dreams of loving--and being loved--with complete abandon. When the Japanese invade Malaya, in World War II, they requisition the estate. Marimuthu dies and Parvathi is forced to accept the protection of the Japanese general who has robbed her of her home. For the first time, she experiences sexual ecstasy, and gradually, her sworn enemy becomes the lover she has always yearned for.

Author: RANI MANICKA  Publisher: HODDER]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/warm-bodies-26-99330.html R' is a zombie. He has no name, no memories, and no pulse, but he has dreams. He is a little different from his fellow Dead. Amongst the ruins of an abandoned city, R meets a girl. Her name is Julie and she is the opposite of everything he knows - warm and bright and very much alive, she is a blast of colour in a dreary grey landscape. For reasons he can’t understand, R chooses to save Julie instead of eating her, and a tense yet strangely tender relationship begins. This has never happened before. It breaks the rules and defies logic, but R is no longer content with life in the grave. He wants to breathe again, he wants to live, and Julie wants to help him. But their grim, rotting world won't be changed without a fight...

Author: Marion, Isaac  Publisher: Random House]]> Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/flash-point-26-99331.html Dan Coldrain is a former elite Royal Marine Commando haunted by the death of his best mate Reese, killed in action by enemy forces. Coldrain used to believe in honour, service, and the call of duty, but haunted by Reese’s death, he drops out of service and instead seeks the lucrative pay cheques on the private military contractor’s circuit. Soon the Sandman, a shadowy figure with connections to the political underworld, lurks into view, with a proposal for Coldrain: find a man called Dogan – a terrorist responsible for a slew of lethal IED attacks in both Iraq and Afghanistan – detain him and hand him over to the Sandman. For this simple task Coldrain will be granted a four-man team, access to high-grade weapons and explosives and vehicles, and a cool

Author: Croucher GC, Matt  Publisher: Random House]]> Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/what-really-happened-26-113831.html Classic tales from the O. Henry of Bengali literature Translated into English for the first time, these stories by legendary writer Banaphool cleverly explore how life’s absurdities are negotiated through human relationships—whether between friends or family, lovers or strangers. In the title story, a lovelorn boy waits earnestly in his hostel room for the arrival of his beloved, only to be greeted by a rude shock. In ‘Conjugal Dreams’, the fickle nature of love is at the centre of the story, as two newlyweds confront their respective old loves. In ‘The Homecoming’, an insurance agent travelling home by train for Durga Puja encounters a most unexpected co-passenger. In ‘The Corpse’, a harmless wager leads to very dramatic consequences. Moulded out of everyday occurrences and happenings, these sparkling vignettes range from poignant and tragic to whimsical and satirical. In these tales, Banaphool invokes a host of enduring characters even as he makes sharp observations about the human condition.

Author: BANAPHOOL]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/paus-lolita-popular-penguins-26-1168.html PAUS Lolita Popular Penguins

Author: Nabokov, Vladimir  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/elephanta-suite-the-26-1199.html Attempts to capture the tumult, ambition, hardship and serenity that mark modern India. This book urges us towards a notion of India and its effect on those who try to lose or find themselves there.

Author: Theroux, Paul  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/paus-perfume-story-of-a-murderer-popul-26-1203.html PAUS Perfume Story of a Murderer Popul

Author: Suskind, Patrick  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/confessions-of-a-demented-housewife-26-106402.html Confessions of a Demented Housewife

Author: Greene, Niamh  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/counting-the-stars-26-106403.html Counting the Stars

Author: Dunmore, Helen  Publisher: FIG TREE]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/deaf-sentence-26-106404.html Deaf Sentence

Author: Lodge, David  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/debutante-divorcee-26-106405.html Fluffier than a poodle in a mohair bodywarmer … Triumphantly successful’ Daily Mail ‘Married girls in New York these days put almost as much effort into losing husbands as they once did into finding them …’ Lauren Blount’s life is perfectly arranged she’s very rich, very young, very thin, very pretty and very, very divorced. The most glamorous of Manhattan’s Debutante Divorcee set, Lauren captivates newlywed Sylvia Mortimer – which is no surprise after Sylvia’s husband goes AWOL on their honeymoon. With New York’s most notorious Husband Huntress setting her sights on Sylvia’s man, a decision must be made either subscribe to Lauren’s ‘Who needs a husband anyway?’ philosophy – or stand and fight for her man.

Author: Sykes, Plum  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/adrian-mole-the-weapons-of-mass-destru-26-102026.html Adrian Mole's pen is scribbling for the twentyfirst century. Working as a bookseller and living in Leicester's Rat Wharf; finding time to write letters of advice to Tim Henman and Tony Blair; locked in mortal combat with a vicious swan called Gielgud; measuring his expanding bald spot; and trying to escape the clutches of Marigold and winover her voluptuous sister Daisy ... Adrian still yearns for a better more meaningful world. And he's not ready to surrender his pen yet ...

Author: Townsend, Sue  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/adrian-mole-the-cappuccino-years-26-102027.html An accidental celebrity, with a spreading bald patch, despairing of current family values, Mole is still worrying Is Viagra cheating? Why won't BBC1 produce The White Van, his serial killer comedy? Will the Millennium Wheel ever turn? Will Pandora Braithwaite MP become Blair's favourite babe?

Author: Townsend, Sue  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/adrian-mole-the-wilderness-years-26-102028.html Adrian Mole has last reached physical maturity, but he can't help roaming the pages of his diary like an untamed adolescent. Finally given the elbow by Pandora, he seeks solace with Bianca a hydraulic engineer/waitress and waits for fame and fortune as he completes his novel.

Author: Townsend, Sue  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/accidental-26-106274.html The Smart family's lacklustre holiday in Norwich is turned upside down when a beguiling stranger called Amber appears, bringing with her love, joy, pain and upheaval. The Smarts try to make sense of their bewildering emotions as Amber tramples over family boundaries and forces them to think about their world and themselves in an entirely new way.

Author: Smith, Ali  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/accidental-tpb--26-106275.html I was born in the year of the supersonic, the era of the multistorey multivitamin multitonic, the highrise time of men with the technology and women who could be bionic, when jump jets were Harrier, when QE2 was Cunard,when thirtyeight feet tall the Princess Margaret stood stately in her hoverpad, the annee erotique was only thirty aircushioned minutes away and everything went at twice the speed of sound. I opened my eyes. It was all in colour. It didn't look like Kansas anymore. The students were on the barricades, the mode was maxi, the Beatles were transcendental. It was Britain. It was great. Ali Smith s Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker and Orange prizes in 2001. In this new novel, she goes even further in developing her unique and brilliant literary voice. Smith has a talent for finding unexpected flashes of beauty and comedy in the everyday Julie Myerson, Daily Telegraph

Author: Smith, Ali  Publisher: HAMISH HAMILTON]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/accidental-woman-the-26-106276.html For Maria, nothing is certain. Her life is a chain of accidents. Friendship passes her by, and she's unimpressed by the devoted Ronny and his endless proposals of marriage. Maria lives in a world of her own yet not of her own making. Stumbling through university, work, marriage and motherhood, she finds it hard to see what all the fuss is about.

Author: Coe, Jonathan  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/aeneid-the-26-106277.html The city of Troy has been ransacked by conquering Greeks and lies in smouldering ruins. A warrior, Aeneas, manages to escape from the ashes. He will go on to change the history of the world. This is a translation of Virgil's epic poem from the translator of the Odyssey and the Iliad.

Author: Virgil  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/any-human-heart-penguin-celebrations--26-106278.html Any Human Heart (Penguin Celebrations)

Author: Boyd, William  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/christmas-carol-a-penguin-red-classics-26-106279.html After reading A Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was 'seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality' and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties.

Author: Dickens, Charles  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/counting-the-stars-26-106280.html In the sticky summer heat unruly desires stir the blood ...For Catullus, the brilliantly witty and outrageous young poet, and Clodia, his older, married lover, a borrowed villa in Rome is a secret, illicit meetingplace. When they are apart, Catullus burns with desire for 'his girl', while Clodia goes her own way among his rivals.

Author: Dunmore, Helen  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/david-copperfield-penguin-red-classics-26-106281.html A novel that recounts author's experience from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a novelist.

Author: Dickens, Charles  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/discovery-of-heaven-26-106282.html * Harry Mulisch's The Assault was an international bestseller which was made into an Oscar Awardwinning film. This magnificent epic has been compared to works by Umberto Eco, Thomas Mann, and Dostoevsky. Harry Mulisch's magnum opus is a rich mosaic of twentiethcentury trauma in which many themesfriendship, loyalty, family, art, technology, religion, fate, good, and evilsuffuse a suspenseful and resplendent narrative. The story begins with the meeting of Onno and Max, two complicated individuals whom fate has mysteriously and magically brought together. They share responsibility for the birth of a remarkable and radiant boy who embarks on a mandated quest that takes the reader all over Europe and to the land where all such quests begin and end. Abounding in philosophical, psychological and theological inquiries, yet laced with humor that is as infectious as it is willful, The Discovery of Heaven lingers in the mind long after it has been read. It not only tells an accessible story, but also convinces one that it just might be possible to bring order into the chaos of the world through a story.

Author: Mulisch, Harry & Vincent, Paul (Transla  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/disobedience-26-106283.html In a cramped synagogue in northwest London, the eminent elderly rabbi passes away. On the other side of the Atlantic, his estranged daughter, Ronit, hears of her father's death and returns to London for the funeral. She has not returned home in fifteen years. Ronit looks forward to a week or two of revisiting old friends, perhaps settling old scores. But she finds the community she grew up in a more confusing place than she'd anticipated. Particularly when she is unexpectedly reunited with Esti, her childhood sweetheart, who has taken a very different path in life...Disobedience is a hugely enjoyable and warmhearted portrayal of characters caught between two worlds, and a wise exploration of sexuality, tolerance and faith.

Author: Alderman, Naomi  Publisher: VIKING]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/extremely-loud-incredibly-close-26-106284.html When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks, nineyearold Oskar Schell sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It leads him into the lives of strangers, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.

Author: Foer, Jonathan Safran  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/face-of-another-26-106285.html The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident a man who has lost his face and, with it, connection to other people. Even his wife is now repulsed by him. His only entry back into the world is to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable. But soon he finds that such mask is more than a disguise.

Author: Abe, Kobo  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/far-from-the-madding-crowd-read-red--26-106286.html Hardy's first masterpiece, this 1874 novel received wide acclaim upon publication and remains among the author's bestloved works. The tale of a passionate, independent woman and her three suitors, it explores Hardy's trademark themes thwarted love, the inevitability of fate, and the encroachment of industrial society on rural life.

Author: Hardy, Thomas  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/glass-books-of-the-dream-eaters-the-26-106287.html Features three mostunlikely but nevertheless extraordinary heroes who become inadvertently involved in the diabolical machinations of a cabal bent upon enslaving thousands through a devilish 'process. This book also presents an adventure in a mysterious city featuring a heroine and two heroes.

Author: Dahlquist, G W  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/god-s-own-country-26-106288.html Tells the story of solitary young farmer, Sam Marsdyke, and his extraordinary battle with the world. This novel tells how expelled from school and cut off from the town, mistrusted by his parents and avoided by city incomers, Marsdyke is a loner until he meets rebellious new neighbour Josephine.

Author: Raisin, Ross  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/hard-times-penguin-red-classics-26-106289.html Dickensa scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, Hard Times features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters. Filled with the details and wonders of smalltown life, it is also a daring novel of ideasaand ultimately, a celebration of love, hope, and limitless possibilities of the imagination.

Author: Dickens, Charles  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/house-of-sleep-the-26-106290.html Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has had his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition; Terry, the insomniac, spends his nights fuelling his obsession with movies; and the Dr Gregory Dudden sees sleep as a lifeshortening disease which must be eradicated.

Author: Coe, Jonathan  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/how-to-be-good-penguin-celebrations--26-106291.html How to Be Good (Penguin Celebrations)

Author: Hornby, Nick  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/jane-eyre-26-106292.html In conjunction with the New York Public Library, Doubleday is proud to introduce a very special collector's series of literary masterpieces. Lavishly illustrated with rare archival material from the library's extensive resources, including the renowned Berg collection, these editions will bring the classics to life for a new generation of readers. A new edition of one of Penguin's top ten Classicsthe novel that has been teaching true strength of character for generations (The Guardian) A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre has dazzled generations of readers with its depiction of a woman's quest for freedom. This updated edition features a new introduction discussing the novel's political and magical dimensions. Having grown up an orphan in the home of her cruel aunt and at a harsh charity school, Jane Eyre becomes an independent and spirited survivorqualities that serve her well as governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a choice. Should she stay with him whatever the consequences or follow her convictions, even if it means leaving her beloved?

Author: Bronte, Charlotte  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/longest-journey-26-106293.html E. M. Forster once described The Longest Journey as the book I am most glad to have written. An introspective novel of manners at once comic and tragic, it tells of a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent. He sets out full of hope to become a writer, but gives up his aspirations for those of the conventional world, gradually sinking into a life of petty conformity and bitter disappointments.

Author: Forster, E.M.  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/lord-jim-26-106294.html Penguin inaugurates a series of revised editions of Conradas finest works, with new introductions Conradas great novel of guilt and redemption follows the first mate on board the Patna, a raw youth with dreams of heroism who, in an act of cowardice, abandons his ship. His unbearable guilt and its consequences are shaped by Conrad into a narrative of immeasurable richness.

Author: Conrad, Joseph  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/lost-estate-the-le-grand-meaulnes--26-106295.html An unforgettable French masterpiece in the spirit of The Catcher in the Ryein a dazzling new translation When Meaulnes first arrives in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring, and charisma. But when he attends a strange party at a mysterious house with a beautiful girl hidden inside, he is changed forever. Published here in the first new English translation since 1959, this evocative novel has at its center both a Peter Pan in provincial Francea kid who refuses to grow upand a Parsifal, pursuing his love to the ends of the earth. Poised between youthful admiration and adult resignation, Alain Fournier's narrator compellingly carries the reader through this indelible portrait of desperate friendship and vanished adolescence.

Author: Fournier, Henri Alain  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/martin-lukes-who-moved-my-blackberry--26-106296.html Presents an account of a year of the author's life a phenomenal year of personal progress, corporate scandal and marital drama. This book chronicles his promotion to one of the foremost executive positions globally, and is also a journey of personal learning, aided and abetted by his coach, Pandora.

Author: Kellaway, Lucy  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/mayor-of-casterbridge-the-read-red--26-106297.html In Thomas Hardy's classic novel, an ambitious man discovers that the blind energies and defiant acts that brought him to power can also destroy him.

Author: Hardy, Thomas  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/mirror-mirror-26-106298.html Mirror, Mirror

Author: Alvarez, Maria  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/monster-love-26-106299.html No one in the neighbourhood has seen the Gutteridges' little girl Samantha for months. But Brendan and Sherilyn look happier that ever, so nothing is wrong. Is it? For the Gutteridges, Samantha was just a thing that threatened to worm its way into their perfect love. For everyone else, her story is the stuff of tabloid headlines.

Author: Topolski, Carol  Publisher: FIG TREE]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/news-of-a-kidnapping-26-106300.html Pablo Escobar billionaire drugs baron, brutal killer, terrified of the new Colombian President's determination to extradite him to America, found the best bargaining tools he could find hostages. Ten relatives of Colombian politicians were abducted and held hostage as Escobar attempted to strongarm the government into blocking his extradition.

Author: Marquez, Gabriel Garcia  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/notes-on-a-scandal-film-in-tie--26-106301.html When the new teacher, Sheba, first arrives, Barbara immediately senses that this woman will be different from the rest of her staffroom colleagues. Before too long, Sheba is involved in an illicit affair with a pupil. Barbara finds the relationship abhorrent, of course, but she is the only adult in whom Sheba can properly confide in.

Author: Heller, Zoe  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/notes-on-a-scandal-penguin-celebrations-26-106302.html Notes on a Scandal (Penguin Celebrations

Author: Heller, Zoe  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/oliver-twist-penguin-red-classics-26-106303.html The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves. Dickens' tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters the archvillain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy.

Author: Dickens, Charles  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/on-beauty-om--26-106304.html Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005 Smith demonstrates both an instinctive storytelling talent and a fully fashioned voice that's streetsmart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time. A writer of remarkable powers The New York Times Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn t like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a longsuffering Professor at Wellington, a New England Liberal Arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths; Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody, and Jerome struggles to be a believer in a family of strict atheists. Faced with the oppressive enthusiasms of his children, Howard feels that the first two acts of his life are over and he has no clear plans for the finale. Or the encore. Then Jerome, Howard s oldest son, falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the rightwing icon Monty Kipps. Increasingly, the two families find themselves thrown together in a beautiful corner of America, enacting a cultural and personal war against the background of real wars that they barely register. An infidelity, a death, then an unexpected legacy set in motion a chain of events which sees all parties forced to examine the unarticulated assumptions that underpin their lives. How do you choose the work on which to spend your life? Why do you love the people you love? Do you really believe what you claim to? And what are the really beautiful things in life and how far will you go to get them? Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Zadie Smith s third novel is a brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and political, and an honest look at people s deceptions. It is also, as you might expect, very funny indeed.

Author: Smith, Zadie  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/pack-up-the-moon-26-106305.html What if your boyfriend died right in front of you? When John dies in a dreadful accident, his girlfriend Emma is plunged into despair. She feels nothing, her world spins out of control. Emma knows that if she is ever to laugh at life again, or find love she once had, she will have to let go of the man she thought she couldn't live without.

Author: McPartlin, Anna  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/penguin-book-of-hebrew-verse-26-106306.html A unique collection of Hebrew poetry through the ages Extending from the Song of Deborahwritten 3,000 years agoto poems written in Israel by authors born in the 1930s, this unparalleled selection of poetry is the first of its kind produced in either English or Hebrew. Includes a note on the text, bibliography, and glossary Features the original Hebrew version of each poem next to its English translation

Author: Carmi  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/ragtime-26-106307.html Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. In this chronicle, reallife characters intermingle with three families, one black, one Jewish, and one prosperous WASP, to create a literary mosaic that brings to life an era of poverty, wealth, and incredible change in short, the era of ragtime.

Author: Doctorow, E. L.  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/rain-before-it-falls-the-26-106308.html Rosamund lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task to put on tape not just her own story but the story of the young blind girl, her cousin's granddaughter, who turned up mysteriously at her party all those years ago.

Author: Coe, Jonathan  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/red-strangers-26-106309.html Growing up in Kenya in the early twentieth century, the brothers Matu and Muthegi are raised according to customs that, they are told, have existed since the beginning of the world. But when the red' strangers come, sunburned Europeans who seek to colonize their homeland, the lives of the two Kikuyu tribesmen begin to change in dramatic new ways.

Author: Huxley, Elspeth  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/rotters-club-the-26-106310.html Set in the 1970s against a backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension, this novel captures a fateful moment in British politics the collapse of 'Old Labour' and imagines its impact on the topsyturvy world of the bemused teenager a world in which a lost pair of swimming trunks can be just as devastating as an IRA bomb.

Author: Coe, Jonathan  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/selected-fables-26-106311.html La Fontaine (162195) is best known for his comic and delightful fables. This lively new translation of the most famous among them captures the wit and nuances of the original. The selection of 110 of the 240 Fables spans La Fontaine's long writing life and shows his progression from short, charming children's tales to longer, more philosophical fables. The parallel French text, scholarly introduction, and detailed notes and appendices make it ideal both for students and for all lovers of poetry. A collection of the world's most beloved fables Jean de la Fontaine popularized some of our most loved proverbial tales, including The Hare and the Tortoise and The Hen Who Laid Golden Eggs, transforming the world's great fables into charming works of astonishing originality, wit, and verve. James Michie's earthy translations capture the friendly brio, nimble comedy, and jaunty wisdom of the original. * Blackandwhite line drawings by J. J. Grandville introduce each fable

Author: De La Fontaine, Jean  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/shirley-26-106312.html Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Bronte vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on something real and unromantic as Monday morning. Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and Luddite revolts of 181112, Shirley (1849) is the story of two contrasting heroines. One is the shy Caroline Helstone, who is trapped in the oppressive atmosphere of a Yorkshire rectory and whose bare life symbolizes the plight of single women in the nineteenth century. The other is the vivacious Shirley Keeldar, who inherits a local estate and whose wealth liberates her from convention. A work that combines social commentary with the more private preoccupations of Jane Eyre, Shirley demonstrates the full range of Bronte's literary talent. Set during the Napoleonic wars at a time of national economic struggles, Shirley is an unsentimental yet passionate depiction of conflict among classes, sexes, and generations. Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore considers marriage to the wealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar, yet his heart lies with his cousin Caroline. Shirley, meanwhile, is in love with Robertas brother, an impoverished tutor. As industrial unrest builds to a potentially fatal pitch, can the four be reconciled?

Author: Bronte, Charlotte  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/soul-tourists-26-106313.html Stanley Williams, angstridden banker and boffin, wonders whether there's more to life than his daily ninetofive grind. One night he's dragged to a disco at Piccadilly Circus and there he meets Jessie, an artiste, motormouth, ducker and diver. She swoops Stanley out of his soulless life and off on a rollercoaster road trip across Europe.

Author: Evaristo, Bernardine  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/species-of-spaces-other-pieces-26-106314.html Georges Perec produced some of the most entertaining and spirited essays of his age. His literary output was amazingly varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec's nonfictional work also demonstrates his characteristic lightness of touch, wry humour and accessibility.

Author: Perec, Georges  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/spell-of-winter-a-26-106315.html Catherine and her brother, Rob, don't know why they have been abandoned by their parents. Incarcerated in the enormous country house of their grandfather, they create a refuge against their family's dark secrets as the outside world moves towards the First World War. As time passes their sibling love deepens and crosses into forbidden territory.

Author: Dunmore, Helen  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/stone-gods-the-26-106316.html On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. What will happen when their story combines with the world's story, as they whirl towards Planet Blue, into the future.

Author: Winterson, Jeanette  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/summer-crossing-26-106317.html Grady beautiful, rich, flamehaired, defiant is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. But her privileged society life of parties, debutantes and dresses leaves her wanting more. And excitement comes in the form of the highly unsuitable Clyde, a Brooklynborn, Jewish parking attendant.

Author: Capote, Truman  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/tale-of-two-cities-a-penguin-red-clas-26-106318.html After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette.

Author: Dickens, Charles  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/talking-to-the-dead-26-106319.html Isabel and Nina cemented their bond in childhood when tragedy struck the family. Years later, with the difficult birth of Isabel's first child, it is Nina who comes to stay and help out her sister. But Nina has other reasons also for being under her sister's roof not least is Isabel's husband, Richard.

Author: Dunmore, Helen  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/tess-of-the-d-urbervilles-read-red--26-106320.html Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich relatives, the D'Urbervilles, in the hope that they might help her alleviate her own family's poverty. Her encounter with her manipulative cousin, Alec, leads to suffering and betrayal. When she falls in love with another man, Angel Clare, Tess sees a potential escape from her past, but only if she can tell him her shameful secret..

Author: Hardy, Thomas  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/then-we-came-to-the-end-26-106321.html They spend their days and too many of their nights at work. There's Chris Yop, clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn Mason, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about; Carl Garbedian, secretly taking someone else's medication; Marcia Dwyer, whose hair is stuck in the eighties; and Benny, who's just well, just Benny.

Author: Ferris, Joshua  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/then-we-came-to-the-end-26-106322.html How we hated our coffee mugs! And our mouse pads, our desk clocks, our daily calendars, all the contents of our desk drawers. Even the photos of our loved ones taped to our computer monitors for uplift and support turned to cloying reminders of time served ...' Welcome to the world of Joshua Ferris' dazzlingly acute, brilliantly original, agonizingly funny novel. The dotcom bubble has just burst on an advertising agency on Chicago's Magnificent Mile. Employees shuffle slowly up the steps towards the revolving doors, afraid of what is waiting to greet them inside their cubicles ...Then We Came to the End is about how we spend our days and too many of our nights. It is about being away from friends and family, about sharing a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers we call colleagues. It is about sitting all morning next to someone you deliberately cross the road to avoid at lunchtime. Joshua Ferris' fabulous novel is the story of your life, and mine. It is the story of our times.

Author: Ferris, Joshua  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/villages-26-106323.html Owen Mackenzie's life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. His marriage to his college sweetheart is quickly followed by his first betrayal and he embarks upon a series of affairs. His pursuit of happiness, in a succession of small towns from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, brings him to the edge of chaos.

Author: Updike, John  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/volume-1-new-voices-from-a-diverse-cul-26-106324.html An anthology of winning entries in The decibel Penguin Prize.

Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/war-trash-26-106325.html When the Americans capture Yu, his command of English propels him into the role of unofficial interpreter in the psychological warfare that defines the POW camp. This is a story of Yu Yuan, a young Chinese army officer sent by Mao with a corps of volunteers' to help shore up the Communist side in Korea.

Author: Jin, Ha  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/we-re-in-trouble-26-106326.html Contains stories that talk about death quite often, about how death affects the young.

Author: Coake, Christopher  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/white-teeth-26-106327.html White Teeth

Author: Smith Zadie  Publisher: HAMISH HAMILTON]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/whose-life-is-it-anyway--26-106328.html Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Author: Moriarty, Sinead  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/world-to-come-the-26-106329.html World to Come, The

Author: Horn, Dara  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/your-blueeyed-boy-26-106330.html Simone is a judge with 2 boys, and a husband on the verge of bankruptcy. When she receives a letter she has no idea that opening it will threaten all she has worked for and call into question her judgement. For the photographs contained in the letter remind her of things she regrets from 20 years ago, and a man she'd decided to forget.

Author: Dunmore, Helen  Publisher: FIG TREE]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/accidental-26-106331.html Accidental

Author: Smith, Ali  Publisher: HAMISH HAMILTON]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/age-of-iron-26-106332.html In cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has all her life been opposed to the apartheid system. Now, she is forced to come to terms with the rage to her daughter, Mrs. Curren recounts the strange events of her dying days. In Cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she is suddenly forced to come to terms with the ironhearted rage that the system has wrought. In an extended letter addressed to her daughter, who has long since fled to America, Mrs. Curren recounts the strange events of her dying days. She witnesses the burning of a nearby black township and discovers the bulletriddled body of her servant's son. A teenage black activist hiding in her house is killed by security forces. And through it all, her only companion, the only person to whom she can confess her mounting anger and despair, is a homeless man, an alcoholic, who one day appears on her doorstep.

Author: Coetzee, J M  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/all-the-king-s-men-26-106333.html Set in the 1930s, this is a novel on American politics. It traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, who resembles the reallife Huey Kingfish Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career as an idealistic man of the people but soon becomes corrupted by success.

Author: Warren, Robert Penn  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/anthem-26-106334.html Equality 72521 is a man apart. Since the Great Rebirth it has been a crime in his world to think or act as an individual. Even love is forbidden. Yet, since his childhood in the Home of the Infants, Equality 72521 has felt that he is different.

Author: Rand, Ayn  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/antisocial-behaviour-of-horace-rumpole-26-106335.html ASBOs may be the pride and joy of New Labour, but they don't cut much ice with Horace Rumpole he takes the oldfashioned view that if anyone is going to be threatened with a restriction of their liberty then some form of legal proceeding ought to be gone through first.

Author: Mortimer, John  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/austerlitz-26-106336.html In the summer of 1939, fiveyearold Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on one of the Kindertransports and placed with foster parents in Wales. For reasons of their own, the childless Calvinist couple erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity.

Author: Sebald, W G  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/autograph-man-26-106337.html AlexLi Tandem sells autographs. A small blip in a huge worldwide network of desire, it is his business to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them, and occasionally fake them to give the people what they want a little piece of fame.

Author: Smith, Z  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/beach-boy-26-106338.html Beach Boy

Author: Vakil, Ardashir  Publisher: HAMISH HAMILTON]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/beautiful-antonio-ii-bell-antonio-26-106339.html Having spent some time in Rome, Antonio returns to his native town with the reputation of being a playboy and with a long list of amorous adventures behind him. To please his father, Antonio agrees to marry the beautiful Barbara. A year after their marriage however scandal erupts. Barbara is still a virgin.

Author: Brancati, Vitaliano  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/before-we-began-26-106340.html Before We Began

Author: Unsworth, Tania  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/bonjour-tristesse-26-106341.html Published when she was only nineteen, Francoise Sagan's astonishing first novel Bonjour Tristesse became an instant bestseller. It tells the story of Cecile, who leads a carefree life with her widowed father and his young mistresses until, one hot summer on the Riviera, he decides to remarry with devastating consequences. In A Certain Smile Dominique, a young woman bored with her lover, begins an encounter with an older man that unfolds in unexpected and troubling ways. These two acerbically witty and delightfully amoral tales about the nature of love are shimmering masterpieces of coolheaded, brilliant observation.

Author: Sagan, Francoise  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/brazzaville-beach-26-106342.html On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Sifting the details for evidence of her own innocence or guilt, she tells her story with a blunt and beguiling honesty that not only intrigues and disturbs but is also completely enthralling.

Author: William, Boyd  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/burning-bright-26-106343.html Nadine, a sixteenyearold runaway new to London, is set up in a decaying Georgian house by her Finnish lover, Kai. Slowly, she begins to suspect that Kai's plans for her have little to do with love. 'Be careful,' warns Enid, the elderly sitting tenant in the house, who knows all about survival and secrets.

Author: Dunmore, Helen  Publisher: FIG TREE]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/child-of-all-nations-26-106344.html Kully knows some things you don t learn at school. She knows how to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows you can t enter a country without a passport or visa. And she knows that she and her parents can t go back to Germany again her father s books are banned there. But there are also things she doesn t understand, like why there might be war Europe just that there are men named Hitler, Mussolini and Chamberlain involved. Little Kully is far more interested where their next meal will come from and the ladies who seem to buzz around her father. Meanwhile she and her parents roam through Europe. Her mother would just like to settle down, but as her restless father struggles to find a new publisher, the three must escape from country to country as their visas expire, money runs out and hotel bills mount up.

Author: Keun, Irmgard  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/chitty-chitty-bang-bang-26-106345.html The wings slowly tilted, and as Commander Pott, at last realizing what CHITTYCHITTYBANGBANG was up to, pressed down the accelerator pedal, the big green car tilted up her shining green and silver nose and took off.

Author: Fleming, Ian & Burningham, John  Publisher: PUFFIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/chocky-26-106346.html Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence Chocky causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say startling things. Who is Chocky? And what could it want with a 11yearold boy?

Author: Wyndham, John  Publisher: VIKING]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/closed-circle-the-26-106347.html On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a superficially cool, sexedup new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his parents' TV in the same Birmingham house in which he grew up. He is watching his brother, Paul, now a young New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Blairite dream.

Author: Coe, Jonathan  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/d-h-lawrence-and-italy-sketches-from-26-106348.html In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty. Twilight in Italy is a vibrant account of Lawrence's stay among the people of Lake Garda, whose decaying lemon gardens bear witness to the twilight of a way of life centuries old. In Sea and Sardina, Lawrence brings to life the vigorous spontaneity of a society as yet untouched by the deadening effect of industrialization. And Etruscan Places is a beautiful and delicate work of literary art, the record of a dying man drinking from the founts of a civilization dedicated to life.

Author: Lawrence, D H  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/death-in-summer-26-106349.html In a dark and atmospheric novel, three tragedies strike one man's household during a stormy summer in the country.

Author: Trevor, William  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100