8th September 1943, & Claudette Blum & her father are among thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing over the Alps towards Italy. For the Italians have broken with Hitler & sued for peace, & here the Blums hope to find safety at last. But overnight the Nazis seize control & the country becomes a battleground ...

8th September 1943, & Claudette Blum & her father are among thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing over the Alps towards Italy. For the Italians have broken with Hitler & sued for peace, & here the Blums hope to find safety at last. But overnight the Nazis seize control & the country becomes a battleground ...

In this brilliant collection of 'long short stories', the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie's Choice returns to the coastal Virginia setting of his first novels. Through the eyes of a man recollecting three episodes from his youth, William Styron explores with new eloquence death, loss, war & racism. ...

Booker-winning novelist & one of Britain's foremost poets, Ben Okri is a passionate advocate of the written word. In A Time for ...

Booker-winning novelist & one of Britain's foremost poets, Ben Okri is a passionate advocate of the written word. In A Time for ...

Primo Verona, a professional magician & soothsayer, is born with a gift of clairvoyance so strong that he is able to predict his own mother's death while still in her womb. He is brought up on a rich diet of astronomy, philosophy & storytelling by his watchmaker father & widowed aunt, both survivors of the death camps in Auschwitz. Primo accurately reads the futures of the local Long Street community of Italians & Jews, who pay him in wads of money, honey cake, tiramisu & other delicacies.

Pasquale Benvenuto, his close friend since childhood & fellow soldier in the Angolan war, is the owner of a bar & delicatessen favoured by local businessmen & gamblers alike. Pasquale is passionate & headstrong, his culinary reputation resting on the recipes for the fruited breads & salamis his father taught him to make

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When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old child, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood & call for his acquittal.

But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything & anyone that opposes their sense of justice.

Jake Brigance has been hired to defend Hailey. It



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