Results for: books tagged ‘Sex’
Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Christopher Hampton
‘Christopher Hampton’s brilliant adaptation ... gives a pitiless and searching portrait of the erotic diversions of aristocrats in putrescent pre-revolutionary France.’ Daily Telegraph ‘Hampton’s achievement is to have preserved the ... More
Arcadia: Tom Stoppard
In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the ... More
Intimacy: Hanif Kureishi
'It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.'Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds he ... More
Selected Poems 1956-1993: Gunter Grass
Günter Grass's international fame as a novelist has tended to obscure his achievements in poetry, but his first book was a collection of poems and he has returned faithfully to ... More
Sleep With Me: Hanif Kureishi
Set over the course of a summer weekend in the country, Sleep With Me is a fast-moving, tragi-comic satire, exposing the emotionally and sexually chaotic lives of a group of ... More
Identity: Milan Kundera
Sometimes - perhaps only for an instant - we fail to recognise a companion; for a moment their identity ceases to exist, and thus we come to doubt our own. ... 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
I'm a Man: Ruth Padel
This is a witty, sparklingly argued study about the links between rock, maleness, and the Greek myths. In a boldly original thesis, Ruth Padel examines a hundred interweaving strands of ... More
Madame Melville: Richard Nelson
Set in 1966 in a soon-to-be-exploding Paris, Madame Melville is the intimate story of Carl, a fifteen-year-old American and his teacher, the beautiful Claudie Melville. Over a night and a ... More
More Light: Bryony Lavery
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