Results for: books tagged ‘Love’
The Alexandria Quartet: Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late 20th century. The Alexandria Quartet is unquestionably his most famous and admired work, one he described ... More
Almost: Oliver Reynolds
Oliver Reynolds's fourth collection is dominated by love poems, all of them marked by the candour, tenderness, musicality and power to convey strong feeling that are traditionally associated with the ... More
Amongst Women: John McGahern
Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out ... More
Amy's View: David Hare
It is 1979. Esme Allen is a well-known West End actress at just the moment when the West End is ceasing to offer actors a regular way of life. The ... More
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter: Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario is an eighteen-year-old law student and radio news editor who falls in love with his 32-year-old divorced 'Aunt' Julia, the wife of his cousin. Their scandalous affair is interwoven ... More
Authenticity: Deirdre Madden
After a brilliant youth, the painter Roderic Kennedy's life has been overtaken by a series of crises - alcoholism, the failure of his marriage to an Italian woman, and estrangement ... More
The Bad Girl: Mario Vargas Llosa
A mysterious romance featuring a man who seems to keep falling in love with the same woman over and over again. More
The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth: Frances Wilson
From the acclaimed writer Frances Wilson, an immensely powerful new biography of Wordsworth’s beloved sister, collaborator and muse.Often presented as a self-effacing virgin or sacrificial saint, Dorothy Wordsworth was in ... More
A Beautiful Mind: Sylvia Nasar
At the age of thirty-one, John Nash, mathematical genius, suffered a devastating breakdown and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yet after decades of leading a ghost-like existence, he was to re-emerge ... More
Billy's Rain: Hugo Williams
The fifty poems in Billy's Rain chart the course of a love affair, now ended. Its complications, obsessions, evasions, secret joys and emotional pitfalls are explored with all the subtlety ... More
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