From Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, comes a personal selection of his best work from the past 25 years.
'I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words".
From the moment he begins to use words like colours in a painting, a writer can begin to see how wondrous and surprising the world is, and he breaks the bones of language to find his own voice. For this he needs paper, a pen, and the optimism of a child looking at the world for the first time.'
'I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words".
From the moment he begins to use words like colours in a painting, a writer can begin to see how wondrous and surprising the world is, and he breaks the bones of language to find his own voice. For this he needs paper, a pen, and the optimism of a child looking at the world for the first time.'
Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses
William Cavendish embodies the popular image of a cavalier. He was both courageous and cultured. His passions were architecture, horses and women. And, along with the whole courtly world of King Charles I and his cavaliers, he was doomed to failure . . .
Published in September 2007
William Cavendish embodies the popular image of a cavalier. He was both courageous and cultured. His passions were architecture, horses and women. And, along with the whole courtly world of King Charles I and his cavaliers, he was doomed to failure . . .
Published in September 2007
Fusiliers: Eight Years with the Redcoats
Fusiliers is the thrilling and untold story of one Redcoat regiment's epic battle against the Americans. Recounting the events from a British perspective Mark Urban sheds new light on the war for American independence . . .
Published in October 2007
Fusiliers is the thrilling and untold story of one Redcoat regiment's epic battle against the Americans. Recounting the events from a British perspective Mark Urban sheds new light on the war for American independence . . .
Published in October 2007
Storm and Conquest
A gripping and epic account of the infamous Battle for Mauritius in which the British fleet sailed close to catastrophe in French waters.
By 1809 the Indian Ocean was the final battleground for Nelson's Navy and the French fleet. At stake was Britain's commercial lifeline to India - and its strategic capacity to wage war in Europe . . .
Published in September 2007
A gripping and epic account of the infamous Battle for Mauritius in which the British fleet sailed close to catastrophe in French waters.
By 1809 the Indian Ocean was the final battleground for Nelson's Navy and the French fleet. At stake was Britain's commercial lifeline to India - and its strategic capacity to wage war in Europe . . .
Published in September 2007
State of the Nation
Michael Billlington's new book looks at post-war Britain from a theatrical perspective. It examines the constant interplay between theatre and society from the resurgent optimism of the Atlee years to the satire boom of the Sixties and the growth of political theatre under Tony Blair in the post-Iraq period . . .
Published in November 2007
Michael Billlington's new book looks at post-war Britain from a theatrical perspective. It examines the constant interplay between theatre and society from the resurgent optimism of the Atlee years to the satire boom of the Sixties and the growth of political theatre under Tony Blair in the post-Iraq period . . .
Published in November 2007
Re-make/Re-model
Re-make/Re-model is the fascinating and largely unknown story of the individuals and circumstances that would lead over a period of almost twenty years to the formation of Roxy Music - a group in which art, fashion and music would combine to create in the words of its inventor, Bryan Ferry, 'above all, a state of mind'.
Published in October 2007
Re-make/Re-model is the fascinating and largely unknown story of the individuals and circumstances that would lead over a period of almost twenty years to the formation of Roxy Music - a group in which art, fashion and music would combine to create in the words of its inventor, Bryan Ferry, 'above all, a state of mind'.
Published in October 2007
