Results for: books tagged ‘Memory’
Ratcatcher: Lynne Ramsay
Ratcatcher was the brilliant feature-film debut of the young Scotswoman Lynne Ramsay, one of the finest new talents in world cinema. It is the summer of 1973, and 12-year-old James ... More
Hammerklavier: Yasmina Reza
Hammerklavier, the first novel by the internationally acclaimed playwright and author of Art, Yasmina Reza, became an instant bestseller on its publication in France. Narrated in the main by Reza ... More
Time, Love, Memory: Jonathan Weiner
The origin of the species was one of the great unanswered questions. Until Darwin. The origins of the universe and of life itself are fundamental questions still. But perhaps the ... More
Memento & Following: Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan's Memento is an intricate, original, fascinating thriller, hailed by Philip French of the Observer as 'one of the year's most exciting pictures'. Its protagonist Leonard (Guy Pearce) is ... More
An Artist of the Floating World: Kazuo Ishiguro
It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter, Masuji ... More
The Spirit Level: Seamus Heaney
The poems in Seamus Heaney's collection The Spirit Level keep discovering the possibilities of 'a new beginning' in all kinds of subjects and circumstances. What is at stake, in poem ... More
No Man's Land: Harold Pinter
Do Hirst and Spooner really know each other, or are they performing an elaborate charade? The ambiguity - and the comedy - intensify with the arrival of Briggs and Foster. ... More
The Journey Home: Olaf Olafsson
For years, Disa has lived a quiet life, managing an English country-house hotel with her companion Anthony. However, upon learning that she is terminally ill, Disa decides it is time ... More
The Secret: Andrzej Klimowski
This is another disturbing novel without words by the Polish artist-illustrator of The Depository. The narrative is rendered entirely as a sequence of 300 pages of compelling drawings and photo-montages. ... 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
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