Skios: Michael Frayn
Good God, thought Oliver, as he saw the smile. She thinks I'm him! And all at once he knew it was so. He was Dr Norman Wilfred.
On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation is preparing for the most important event in its calendar: its annual lecture. This year they have secured a major star: Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. When he arrives he turns out to be surprisingly young and charming - not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting.
Meanwhile, at the other end of the island, a young woman waits for the notorious chancer she has rashly agreed to go on holiday with and who has only too characteristically failed to turn up. Trapped in the villa with her instead, by an unfortunate chain of misadventure, is a balding old gent called Dr Norman Wilfred, who has lost his whereabouts, his luggage, his temper and increasingly all normal sense of reality ...
And as the time draws ever nearer for one or other Dr Wilfred - or possibly both - to give the eagerly-awaited lecture, so Skios - Greece - Europe - career off their appointed track. More
Send War in Our Time, O Lord: C. J. Driver
Following the death of her husband Terry, Mrs Allen takes the vacant post of Matron at the Settlement of St Joseph, founded in the nineteenth century by his grandfather Timothy ... More
Collected Novels Volume 1: Paul Auster
After years spent as a struggling translator and poet, Paul Auster published his first works of fiction in the mid 1980s - City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room, ... More
The Character of Rain: Amelie Nothomb
The Japanese believe that until the age of three, children are gods, each one an okosama, or 'Lord Child'. On their third birthday they fall from grace and join the ... More
In Praise of the Stepmother: Mario Vargas Llosa
In Praise of the Stepmother is a witty and subtle meditation on the mysterious nature of human happiness and the corrupting power of innocence. More
Tokyo Year Zero: David Peace
The first part of Peace's 'Tokyo Trilogy' sees him blend fact and fiction as he explores a shattered national psyche forced to face up to its very worst fears. More
Report to Greco: Nikos Kazantzakis
A Sweet Scent of Death: Guillermo Arriaga
The killing of a young girl in a small Mexican village ignites a powder-trail of gossip that erupts in further violence, in this suspenseful tale from the writer of the ... More
A Visible Darkness: Michael Gregorio
The gripping new thriller from the author of Critique of Criminal Reason and Days of Atonement, set amongst the amber harvests on Prussia's Baltic coast.
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A Certain Justice: P. D. James
Venetia Aldridge QC is a distinguished barrister. When she agrees to defend Garry Ashe, accused of the brutal murder of his aunt, it is one more opportunity to triumph in ... More
To the Victors the Spoils: Colin MacInnes
Colin MacInnes was a sergeant in a Field Security detachment in the Second World War. In this imaginative record of actual experiences he describes the progress of his detachment through ... More
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