In seven works of non-fiction, especially in Birders & the universally acclaimed Birds Britannica, Mark Cocker has ...

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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In Clanton, Mississippi, the life of the ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken & remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock & horror until her black father acquires an assault rifle & takes justice into his own outraged hands. For ten days, as burning crosses & the crack of sniper fire spreads through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound while young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life.... & then his own. ...

When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old daughter, 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's the kind of case that can make or break a young lawyer. But in the maelstrom of Clanton, it is also the kind of case that could get a young lawyer killed.



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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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When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the monsters 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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When young Jamie Pike dies in a tragic accident, she leaves behind a family numbed with grief & torn with guilt & recrimination. In this compassionate & haunting novel Anne Tyler explores how each member of the family learns to face the future in their own way. ...