'I COULDN'T TURN THE PAGES FAST ENOUGH' Clare Mackintosh 'A SUSPENSEFUL TALE TOLD WITH GLORIOUS DRAMA AND LYRICAL FLAIR' Denise Mina, New York Times Two friends Wynn and Jack have been best friends since their first day of college, brought together by their shared love of books and the great outdoors. The adventure of a lifetime When they decide to take time off university and canoe down the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate the ultimate wilderness experience. No phones. No fellow travellers. No way of going back. A hellish ride But as a raging wildfire starts to make its way towards them, their expedition becomes a desperate race for survival. And when a man suddenly appears, claiming his wife has vanished, the fight against nature's destructive power becomes entangled with a much deadlier game of cat and mouse. ' Like Mark Twain and Toni Morrison, Heller is a rare talent ' Elle ' A novel that sweeps you away ' USA Today ' A fiery tour-de-force ' Denver Post ' I dare you to put it down once you've picked it up ' Criminal Element
The legendary Academy award-winning writer and director takes the reader on a unique joyride of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history. For the first time, in his own words, explore the mind, the myth, and the movie magic of the one and only Quentin Tarantino.
''But then-he is such a presence, such an other person, a thing she has honestly never been good at coping with, the sheer massiveness of a whole other human. If he comes to visit then everything will be different, all this, this chilled bright space in her head.''
Practice shows us just one day. Annabel, sitting in her small student room, attempts to write an essay about Shakespeare. She follows a meticulous, solitary routine, but finds it repeatedly thrown off course as the day progresses: by family and friends who demand her attention and time, by thoughts of her much older boyfriend and his impending visit, by wild sexual fantasies and stories of her own invented characters - and by darker crises, obliquely glimpsed, but capable of derailing Annabel''s carefully laid plans.
The echo of the novels of The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series resonates in the stories of Carlos Ruiz Zafon: gathered here for the first time - and some never before published in English - these stories are a celebration of one of the world''s great storytellers A boy decides to become a writer when he discovers that his creative gifts capture the attentions of an aloof young beauty who has stolen his heart. A labyrinth maker flees Constantinople to a plague ridden Barcelona, with plans for building a library impervious to the destruction of time. A strange gentleman tempts Cervantes to write a book like no other, each page of which could prolong the life of the woman he loves. And a brilliant Catalan architect named Antoni Gaudi reluctantly agrees to cross the ocean to New York, a voyage that will determine the fate of an unfinished masterpiece. A celebration of a master storyteller, beloved by fans around the world: ''The real deal: one gorgeous read'' Stephen King ''This book will change your life. An instant classic'' Daily Telegraph ''A book lover''s dream'' The Times ''A hymn of praise to all the joys of reading'' Independent ''Gripping and instantly atmospheric'' Mail on Sunday ''Irresistibly readable'' Guardian ''Diabolically good'' Elle
''These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all'' TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage From the acclaimed author Alice Walker - winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize - comes an unprecedented compilation of four decades'' worth of journals that draw an intimate portrait of her development as an artist, intellectual and human rights activist. In Gathering Blossoms Under Fire , Walker offers a passionate, intimate record of her intellectual, artistic and political development. She also intimately explores - in real time - her thoughts and feelings as a woman, a writer, an African American, a wife, a daughter, a mother, a lover, a sister, a friend, a citizen of the world. In an unvarnished and singular voice, she writes about an astonishing array of events: marching in Mississippi with other foot soldiers of the civil rights movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., or ''the King'' as she called him; her marriage to a Jewish lawyer, partly to defy laws that barred interracial marriage in the 1960s South; an early miscarriage; the birth of her daughter; writing her first novel; the trials and triumphs of the women''s movement; erotic encounters and enduring relationships; the ''ancestral visits'' that led her to write The Color Purple ; winning the Pulitzer Prize; being admired and maligned, in sometimes equal measure, for her work and her activism; burying her mother; and her estrangement from her own daughter. The personal and the political are layered and intertwined in the revealing narrative that emerges from Walker''s journals.
From the author of THE HUSTLER, THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT is a modern classic about a troubled chess prodigy and her battle to survive When she is sent to an orphanage at the age of eight, Beth Harmon soon discovers two ways to escape her surroundings, albeit fleetingly: playing chess and taking the little green pills given to her and the other children to keep them subdued. Before long, it becomes apparent that hers is a prodigious talent, and as she progresses to the top of the US chess rankings she is able to forge a new life for herself. But she can never quite overcome her urge to self-destruct . For Beth, there's more at stake than merely winning and losing.
@2@Damian Baxter is very, very rich - and he's dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but one concern: who should inherit his fortune...@3@@2@PAST IMPERFECT is the story of a quest. Damian Barker wishes to know if he has a living heir. By the time he married in his late thirties he was sterile (the result of adult mumps), but what about before that unfortunate illness? He was not a virgin. Had he sired a child? A letter from a girlfriend from these times suggests he did. But the letter is anonymous.@3@@2@Damian contacts someone he knew from their days at university. He gives him a list of girls he slept with and sets him a task: find his heir...@3@
A thrilling new examination of what sets us apart in the animal kingdom by the popular science broadcaster and author of A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYONE WHO EVER LIVED
This clever book teaches artists the unique skill of drawing perspective for spectacular landscapes, fantastic interiors, and other wildly animated backgrounds to fit comic-strip panels.
'EXTRAORDINARY' Domenico Starnone, National Book Award Finalist author of Ties and Trick Since childhood, Marco Carrera, who had a growth disorder as a child, has been called 'the hummingbird'. But in a sense Marco is really a hummingbird: he lives a dramatic life, full of joys, love, hope, laughter and heartbreak, but as also remains in perfect balance. His frantic movements enable him to survive the existential acrobatics of life - just like a hummingbird, which makes twelve to eighty wing beats per second, but remains suspended in the air, seemingly motionless. In The Hummingbird we breathlessly follow the life of Marco Carrera, a hero for our times. A beautiful novel about pain and the agonizing power of life.
