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Involuntary self-murder is a symptom of what Matthew Maddox, emeritus professor of the Drayburgh School of Fine Art, considers to be a cultural as well as a social malaise - his millennial summing-up of the century he has lived through.

Pocket-sized edition of one of Anthony Powell's early novels, this book features a whole gallery of comic subordinate characters: the egregious valet, Pope, called by his comrades in the army "The Duke"; the two Russian counts, Scherbatcheff and Bobel; the ingenious American, Cortney; and the conscientious ...

Zelmont Raines has slid a long way since those winning touchdowns brought him lucrative endorsement deals. Crack, barrels of booze, a paternity suit, a hip injury, groupies and some shady investments in gangsta rap; can things get any worse? Enter Wilma Wells, the leggy and brainly lawyer for the Los ...

A chilling tale of murder and passion deep in the bayou from the Orange Prize-winning author of Property.

In England his novels are always bestsellers, yet for the last decade this American literary master has not been published in his own country. No longer! Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue displays the same plainspoken power that has dazzled Purdy's devoted audience for decades. The story of a woman's struggle ...

In 1974, a tiny band of self-styled urban guerrillas, calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army, abducts a newspaper heiress, who then takes the guerrilla name 'Tania' and shocks the world by choosing to remain with her former captors. Has she been brainwashed? Why else would such a nice girl disavow ...

This collection of short stories explores the lives of young men in their twenties and thirties: their confusions, their obsessions, their emotional complexities. The stories have a wide range, but they are nevertheless all at some level explorations of modern masculinity.

Albert Lippincott is a thirty-year veteran of the Nestor, New York, Post Office - a letter carrier extraordinaire, aggressively cheerful, obsessively efficient. But Albert has a few things to hide. His unfortunate habit, for instance, of reading other people's mail.

The stories in The Coast of Good Intentions evoke the landscape of the Pacific North-west with impressive ease - crab factories, cranberry bogs, the fog-shrouded shore, the Seattle skyline. Here are ordinary lives in all their messy, unresolved glory.

In a brasserie just off the Boulevard St-Germain, a distinguished author is entranced as he watches the motions of a young woman folding a restaurant bill into a paper boat. On an impulse he proposes to her. She answers without hesitation: yes, she will marry him, but on her terms.

This title provides a fictional snapshot of a mongrel nation, by a high-profile group of young writers.

An anthology of African writing from writers known and unknown from Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa. It includes work from Stephen Grey, Frank Meintjies, Liz Gunner and Kelwyn Sole, alongside the contribution of Nobel prizewinner Nadine Gordimer.

Alone in Bolivia, Roger, the stone cowboy, is trying to straighten out and make his way back home to Michigan. Then he meets Agnes, who is searching for her brother Jonathan, a magician who has become heavily involved with El Gran Moxo, a ruthless cocaine baron.

Ray is a security guard, and spends his days waiting and burning up inside. He is unable to form a lasting relationship and his anger is reaching eruption point. But his attention turns to Tim Griffith, a famous movie star, and Ray decides to teach him a lesson he'll never forget.

Ex-linebacker-turned-Denver P.I. Streeter battles a whole new set of low-lifes when he represents a local restaurateur who lands in hot water with some major underworld figures and ends up in the middle of a pizza war