An A-Z of Hellraisers is the last word on inebriated misbehaviour, & the miscreant mob in this whopper of a book constitute ...

This is the story of the comic & yet relentless struggle for survival of Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man. Austin is one of those people who needs to survive through the destruction of others. The others, in Austin's case, include his successful elder brother, Matthew, & the women who, one after the other, are so touchingly convinced that they can 'save' him. In this latter role we meet Austin's estranged wife, Dorina, a crazed angel, & Austin's far from angelic alcoholic landlady, Mitzi. Other women interest themselves too in Austin's fate, with hilarious & appalling results. An Accidental Man is a novel of extraordinary scope & variety in which Iris Murdoch's astonishing fertility of mind & unerring narrative skill are most felicitously combined. ...

This is the story of the comic & yet relentless struggle for survival of Austin Gibson Grey, the accidental man. Austin is one of those people who needs to survive through the destruction of others. The others, in Austin's case, include his successful elder brother, Matthew, & the women who, one after the other, are so touchingly convinced that they can 'save' him. In this latter role we meet Austin's estranged wife, Dorina, a crazed angel, & Austin's far from angelic alcoholic landlady, Mitzi. Other women interest themselves too in Austin's fate, with hilarious & appalling results. An Accidental Man is a novel of extraordinary scope & variety in which Iris Murdoch's astonishing fertility of mind & unerring narrative skill are most felicitously combined. ...

Badajoz: Christmas 1826

Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons is a prisoner of the Spanish,


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Badajoz: Christmas 1826

Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons is a prisoner of the Spanish,


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' Dreams are the currency of Okri's writing, particularly in this first book of poems. AN AFRICAN ELEGY, but also in his books of short stories & Booker prize-winning novel THE FAMISHED ROAD. Okri's dreams are made on the stuff of Africa's colossal economic & political problems, & reading the poems is to experience a constant succession of metaphors of resolution in both senses of the word. Virtually every poem contains an exhortation to climb out of the African miasma, & virtually every poem harvests the dream of itself with an upbeat restorative ending... Authenticity shines out of these poems in the way it does fromthe work of some East European & Russian poets. ' Giles Foden, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. ...

Lyra is told that she is an African princess, just like her aunts & cousins. But when she tells her school friends, they don't believe her. It is only when she flies to the vibrant Caribbean to visit her Taunte May that she discovers her own history. Then she can walk tall & say, 'I'm Lyra, I'm an African princess. Can you see?' ...

Lyra is told that she is an African princess, just like her aunts & cousins. But when she tells her school friends, they don't believe her. It is only when she flies to the vibrant Caribbean to visit her Taunte May that she discovers her own history. Then she can walk tall & say, 'I'm Lyra, I'm an African princess. Can you see?' ...

Though angels have been part of our culture & our history for centuries, they have been forgotten in recent times: diminished to the level of christmas trinkets & the playthings of children. Until recently few would admit encountering angelic beings.

Yet this extraordinary book shows angels are returning
- & being acknowledged
- once again. Here are true stories of countless ordinary people being rescued by angels, being comforted & healed by them, feeling their presence in the face of death
- & often appearing to little children. These tales are drawn from such countries as Britain, Australia, Ireland & the United States
- showing angels can be found all around the globe: helping people, often changing their lives completely.

Full of warm & uplifting stories, An Angel At My Shoulder suggests it is more than time to reconsider our view of angels, to let them back into our hectic mechanized world & to realise we are never alone...







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