Nice Work (Lodge David)(Paperback / softback)

Nice Work (Lodge David)(Paperback / softback)

When Vic Wilcox (MD of Pringle's engineering works) meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on. What, after all, are they supposed to learn from each other? But in time both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's

Consciousness And The Novel (Lodge David)(Paperback / softback)

Picturegoers (Lodge David)(Paperback / softback)

In his astutely observed first novel, David Lodge ushers in a congregation of characters whose hopes, confusions and foibles play out alongside the celluloid fantasies of the silver

Writer's Luck - A Memoir: 1976-1991 (Lodge David)(Paperback / softback)

Art of Fiction (Lodge David)(Paperback / softback)

In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James

Ready For Anything - 52 productivity principles for work and life (Allen David)(Paperback / softback)

David Allen inspires us to work better, not

Lives in Writing (Lodge David)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic. Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography, autobiography, biographical criticism, biographical fiction, memoir, confession,

Changing Places (Lodge David)(Paperback / softback)

When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the

Small World (Lodge David)(Paperback / softback)

Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge's satirical Small

How Plays Work (revised and updated edition) (Edgar David)(Paperback / softback)

In How Plays Work, distinguished playwright David Edgar examines the mechanisms and techniques which dramatists throughout the ages have employed to structure their plays and to express their meaning.Written for playwrights and playgoers alike, Edgar's analysis starts with the building blocks of

Nice Work (If You Can Get It) (Imrie Celia)(Paperback / softback)

Therapy (Lodge David)(Paperback / softback)

As Tubby's life fragments under the weight of his self-obsession, he embarks - via Kierkegaard, strange beds from Rummidge to Tenerife to Beverly Hills, a fit of literary integrity and memories of his 1950s South London boyhood - on a picaresque quest for his lost

Man of Parts (Lodge David)(Paperback / softback)

A MAN OF CONTRADICTIONS. A MAN OF PASSION. A MAN OF THE FUTURE. Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1944, the ailing Herbert George Wells, 'H.G.' to his family and friends, looks back on a life crowded with incident, books, and

Paradise Lodge (Stibbe Nina)(Paperback / softback)

Limbo Lodge (Aiken Joan)(Paperback / softback)

Ginger, You're Barmy (Lodge David)(Paperback / softback)

When it isn't prison, it's hell. Or at least that's the heartfelt belief of conscripts Jonathan Browne and Mike 'Ginger' Brady. The reckless, impulsive Mike and the more pragmatic Jonathan adopt radically different attitudes to survive this two-year confiscation of their freedom, with dramatic

Emotional Agility - Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life (David Susan)(Paperback / softback)

British Museum Is Falling Down (Lodge David)(Paperback / softback)

First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted - not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican roulette' to avoid a fourth

How Far Can You Go? (Lodge David)(Paperback / softback)

Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the rest are bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the journey between university in the 1950s and the marriages, families, careers and deaths that

Campus Trilogy (Lodge David)(Paperback / softback)

'One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era' Time OutThe plot lines of The Campus Trilogy, radiating from its hub at the redbrick University of Rummidge, trace the comic adventures of academics who move outside familiar

Nice And The Good (Murdoch Iris)(Paperback / softback)

A work of coruscating moral brilliance, The Nice and the Good revolves around a happily married couple, Kate and Octavian, and the friends of all ages attached to their house in Dorset. The resonant sub plot involves murder and black magic in Whitehall, as the novel leads us through stress and

David Foster Wallace Reader (Foster Wallace David)(Paperback / softback)

This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work — essays like his famous cruise-ship piece, 'A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again,' excerpts from his novels The Broom of the System, Infinite Jest, and The Pale King, and legendary stories like 'The Depressed

Terror - Civil War in the French Revolution (Andress David)(Paperback / softback)

In this wholly definitive work, David Andress examines the The French Revolution: the birth of a new ideological age and the bloody emergence of Europe's first political

Sword And The Scimitar (Ball David)(Paperback / softback)

Nico and Maria, Maltese brother and sister, are separated when young Nico is abducted by Moorish