Master Of Petersburg (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

Master Of Petersburg (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

Set in 1869, when Dostoevsky was summoned from Germany to St Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, this novel is at once a compelling mystery steeped in the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia and a brilliant and courageous meditation on authority and rebellion, art and

Age of Iron (Coetzee J. M.)(Paperback / softback)

Schooldays of Jesus (Coetzee J. M.)(Paperback / softback)

St Petersburg - Three Centuries of Murderous Desire (Miles Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story of St Petersburg - one of the most magical, menacing and influential cities in the world. | St Petersburg has always felt like an impossible metropolis, risen from the freezing mists and flooded marshland of the River Neva on the western

After Sebald - Essays and Illuminations (Coetzee John)(Paperback / softback)

DK Eyewitness St Petersburg (DK Eyewitness)(Paperback / softback)

Summertime (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee - a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with

Childhood of Jesus (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

From the double Booker Prize-winning author of Disgrace, 'a moving story of lost childhood' (Sunday Telegraph). After crossing oceans, a man and a boy - both strangers to each other - arrive in a new

Petersburg (Bely Andrei)(Paperback)

Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg is considered one of the four greatest prose masterpieces of the 20th century. In this new edition of the best-selling translation, the reader will have access to the translators' detailed commentary, which provides the necessary historical and literary context for

Waiting For The Barbarians (Coetzee J. M.)(Paperback / softback)

Coetzee - soon to be a major film starring Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson and Johnny DeppFor decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he

In The Heart Of The Country (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magda's consciousness starts to drift and the line between fact and the workings of her excited

Late Essays - 2006 - 2017 (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

A fascinating collection of essays on literary subjects ranging from Daniel Defoe to Samuel Beckett by a Nobel and Booker Prize-winning writerLate Essays gathers together

Disgrace (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The TimesAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and

Schooldays of Jesus (Coetzee J. M.)(Paperback / softback)

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Observer and Daily TelegraphWhen you travel across the ocean on a boat, all your memories are washed away and you start a completely new

Death of Jesus (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

Brilliant' Evening StandardSimon and David - a tall ten-year-old - are in a new land, together with a woman named

Age of Iron (Coetzee J. M.)(Paperback / softback)

In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and the brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face to face with its

Stranger Shores (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of 29 pieces on books, writing, photography, and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. With literary subjects ranging from Defoe through Rilke and Kafka to the giants of the 20th century, those who admire Coetzee as a novelist can also read his literary

Diary of a Bad Year (Coetzee J.M.)(Paperback / softback)

An eminent Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled 'Strong Opinions'. For him, troubled by Australia's complicity in the wars in the Middle East, it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: how should a citizen of a modern democracy react to their state's involvement in a war

Sashenka (Sebag Montefiore Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Winter, 1916. In St Petersburg, snow is falling in a country on the brink of revolution. Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. As her mother parties with Rasputin and her dissolute friends, Sashenka slips into the frozen night to play her role in a dangerous game of conspiracy

Petersburg (Bely Andrei)(Paperback / softback)

'The most important ...] Russian novel of the 20th century.'-The New York Times Book ReviewConsidered Andrei Bely's masterpiece, Petersburg, is a pioneering modernist novel, ranked in importance alongside Ulysses, The Metamorphosis, and In Search of Lost Time, that captures Russia's capital

Plays and Petersburg Tales: Petersburg Tales; Marriage; The Government Inspector (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback)

This volume brings together Gogol's Petersburg Tales with his two most famous plays, all of which guide us through the streets of St. Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the marshes of the Neva estuary. Something of the deception and violence of the city's creation seems to lurk

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow (Reyfman Irina)(Paperback)

Alexander Radishchev's Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most important pieces of writing to come out of Russia in the age of Catherine the Great. An account of a fictional journey along a postal route, it blends literature, philosophy, and political economy to expose social and

Man From St Petersburg (Follett Ken)(Paperback / softback)

On the eve of the First World War, a man comes to London to commit a murder that would change

Witches of St. Petersburg (Edwards-Jones Imogen)(Paperback / softback)

Princesses Anastasia and Militza from Montenegro, famed for their wild beauty and mystical powers, befriend the isolated Tsarina Alexandra and use their psychic gifts to help in her increasingly desperate quest to produce a male