Notwithstanding - Stories from an English Village (de Bernieres Louis)(Paperback / softback)

Notwithstanding - Stories from an English Village (de Bernieres Louis)(Paperback / softback)

Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding, where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether, a spiritualist lives in a cottage with the ghost of her husband, and people think it quite natural to confide in a spider that lives in a

Labels and Other Stories (de Bernieres Louis)(Paperback / softback)

War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts (de Bernieres Louis)(Paperback / softback)

'Surreal and hilarious' IndependentEnter Louis de Bernieres' magical, tragic and hilarious South American odyssey. When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the

Red Dog (de Bernieres Louis)(Paperback / softback)

The enchanting story of a very remarkable dog from the author of the bestselling Captain Corelli's Mandolin. 'In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary

Partisan's Daughter (de Bernieres Louis)(Paperback / softback)

Chris is bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. In his forties, he's a stranger to the 1970s youth culture of London, a stranger to himself on the night he invites a hooker into his car.Roza is Yugoslavian, recently moved to London, the daughter of one of Tito's partisans. She's in

The Autumn of the Ace - Louis de Berniéres

De Bernieres is a singular, cherishable voice' Mail on Sunday From the master of historical fiction, this book follows an unforgettable family after the Second World War. Some bonds are hard to break... Daniel Pitt was an RAF fighter in the First World War and an espionage agent for the SOE in the

So Much Life Left Over (de Bernieres Louis)(Paperback / softback)

Rosie and Daniel have moved to Ceylon with their little daughter to start a new life at the dawn of the 1920s, attempting to put the trauma of the First World War behind them, and to rekindle a marriage that gets colder every day. However, even in the lush plantation hills it is hard for them to

The Autumn of the Ace - Louis de Berniéres

Louis de Bernieres is the master of historical fiction which makes you both laugh and cry. This book follows an unforgettable family after the Second World War.Daniel Pitt has seen a lot of action. He was an RAF fighter in the First World War and an espionage agent for the SOE in the Second. Now

Captain Corelli's Mandolin (de Bernires Louis)(Paperback)

Kefalonia, 1941. Captain Corelli, an enigmatic young Italian officer, is posted to the idyllic Greek island as part of the Axis occupying forces. Shunned by the locals at first, he proves to be civilised, humorous - and a consummate musician. The captain is soon thrown together with Dr Iannis's

Homecoming (Morpurgo Sir Michael)(Paperback / softback)

A tender, lyrical tale from the author's childhood in an idyllic English village, with environmental and conservational

Captain Corelli's Mandolin (de Bernieres Louis)(Paperback / softback)

25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR'A true diamond of a novel, glinting with comedy and tragedy' Daily MailIt is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying

Sideways Stories From Wayside School (Sachar Louis)(Paperback / softback)

Don't Give Up, Don't Give In - Life Lessons from an Extraordinary Man (Zamperini Louis)(Paperback / softback)

Inspirational stories and life lessons from the Olympic athlete and war hero Louis

Birds Without Wings (de Bernieres Louis)(Paperback / softback)

Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully for

Senor Vivo & The Coca Lord (de Bernieres Louis)(Paperback / softback)

Dionisio Vivo, a South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisio's letters to the press, exposing the drug barons,

Oaken Heart - The Story of an English Village at War (Allingham Margery)(Paperback / softback)

Village Life (Gluck Louise)(Paperback / softback)

From a fountain where 'all the roads in the village unite', concentric circles expand into the distance: the young and old, fields, a river, a mountain - the fountain's stone counterpart, where the roads end, human time superimposed on geological time. This title evokes a Mediterranean world with

Captain Corelli's Mandolin (de Bernieres Louis)(Paperback / softback)

It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be

Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman (de Bernieres Louis)(Paperback / softback)

While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerrillas, unfrocked priests and reformed - though by no means inactive - whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfilment. | But for Cardinal Guzman, a man

Murder in an English Village (Ellicott Jessica)(Paperback)

Confessions of an English Opium Eater (De Quincey Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village (Schlitz Laura Amy)(Paperback)

Step back to an English village in 1255, where life plays out in dramatic vignettes illuminating twenty-two unforgettable characters. Winner of the Newbery Medal. Maidens, monks, and millers' sons -- in these pages, readers will meet them all. There's Hugo, the lord's nephew, forced to prove his

The Hurly Burly and Other Stories (Coppard A. E.)(Paperback)

A new collection of short stories from an English master, edited and with a preface by acclaimed author Russell Banks Originating in the folktale and with an occasional infusion of gothic horror or fantasy, A. E. Coppard's stories still feel fresh and surprising today. Coppard came to the short

Village Christmas - And Other Notes on the English Year (Lee Laurie)(Paperback / softback)