Running in the Family - Michael Ondaatje, Jacques Mazeau

Running in the Family - Michael Ondaatje, Jacques Mazeau

Twenty-five years after leaving his native Sri Lanka for the cool winters of Ontario, a chaotic dream of tropical heat and barking dogs pushes Michael Ondaatje to travel back home and revisit a childhood and a family he never fully understood. Along with his siblings and children, Ondaatje gathers

Running in the Family (Ondaatje Michael)(Paperback)

An autobiographical journey of discovery gathers together fragments of memory, experience, and family history in order to understand the meaning of his parents' legacy and his own

Divisadero (Ondaatje Michael)(Paperback / softback)

It is the 1970s in Northern California. A farmer and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work the land with the help of Coop, the enigmatic young man who lives with them. Theirs' is a makeshift family, until they are riven by an incident of violence - of both hand and heart - that 'sets fire

English Patient (Ondaatje Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Kip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper - each is haunted in different ways by the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies in an upstairs room. and also of forbidden love, suffering and betrayal - illuminate the story, and leave all the characters for ever

Coming Through Slaughter (Ondaatje Michael)(Paperback)

Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of that time and

Anil's Ghost (Ondaatje Michael)(Paperback / softback)

Transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil

English Patient - Winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize (Ondaatje Michael)(Paperback / softback)

Warlight (Ondaatje Michael)(Paperback / softback)

**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018**An elegiac novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English Patient It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the

The English Patient (Ondaatje Michael)(Paperback)

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The bestselling author of Warlight traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. 'A rare spellbinding web of dreams.' --Time The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last

Kensuke's Kingdom (Morpurgo Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Michael and his family are sailing around the world in their yacht, the 'Peggy Sue'. Michael falls overboard and is washed up on a remote island. He must learn to survive on his own, until the day he discovers he is not

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Freud's Papers on Technique (Alain-Miller Jacques)(Paperback)

The French text was prepared by Jacques-Alain Miller in consultation with Jacques Lacan, from the transcriptions of the

Cat's Table (Ondaatje Michael)(Paperback / softback)

From the acclaimed author of The English Patient comes a stunningly beautiful novel about a boy's life-changing journey from Ceylon to England in the 1950s. What had there been before such a ship in my

The Durrells of Corfu (Haag Michael)(Paperback)

The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first place - and what happened to them after they left? The real story of the Durrells is as surprising and

Mad in the Back (Rosen Michael)(Paperback / softback)

A hilarious family tale from beloved author Michael Rosen now in a hi-lo, dyslexia-friendly format for the struggling middle grade

Running the Family Firm: How the Monarchy Manages Its Image and Our Money (Clancy Laura)(Paperback)

The British royal family has experienced a resurgence in public interest at the same time as global inequalities have expanded between 'the elites' and 'the rest'. Yet, the monarchy is absent from conversations about inequality. This is the only book arguing that we cannot talk about inequalities

Missing: The True Story of My Family in World War II (Rosen Michael)(Pevná vazba)

The Everafter War (Buckley Michael)(Paperback)

The Grimm family is caught in the midst of a war in the seventh installment of the beloved New York Times bestselling Sisters Grimm series After two years trapped in enchanted sleep, Daphne and Sabrina's parents are finally free. Unfortunately, they've awoken to chaos in Ferryport Landing. Prince

Anxiety: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan (Miller Jacques-Alain)(Paperback)

Jacques Lacan is widely recognized as a key figure in the history of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. In Anxiety, now available for the first time in English, he explores the nature of anxiety, suggesting that it is not nostalgia for the object that

Running out of Road - A gripping thriller set in the Derbyshire peaks (Staincliffe Cath)(Pevná vazba)

From the author of the Scott and Bailey series, Running Out of Road is a novel about family and betrayal, injustice and violence, fear and love, resilience, kindness and

Death and the Butterfly (Hester Colin)(Pevná vazba)

For readers of Michael Ondaatje and Chris Cleave, this sweeping multigenerational novel centered around endless heartbreak and enduring love features the intertwined stories of three women who transcend three tragedies of the twentieth century with the aid of the greatest love poet of all time:

Jacques Tati. the Complete Works(Pevná vazba)

Oscar-winning French filmmaker/performer Jacques Tati, one of the most important figures in the history of cinema, is the subject of this comprehensive and long-overdue tribute to a singular artistic genius. Made with the support of Tati's rights holders Les Films de Mon Oncle, who allowed

Confessions (Rousseau Jean-Jacques)(Paperback)

In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from the

The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film (Ondaatje Michael)(Paperback)

The Conversations is a treasure, essential for any lover or student of film, and a rare, intimate glimpse into the worlds of two accomplished artists who share a great passion for film and storytelling, and whose knowledge and love of the crafts of writing and film shine through. It was on the set

Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact (Vallee Jacques)(Paperback)

In DIMENSIONS, the first volume of a trilogy, Dr. Jacques Vallee reexamines the historical record that led to the modern UFO phenomenon and to the belief in alien contact. He then tackles the enigma of abduction reports, which come from various times and various countries, as well as the psychic