Visitors to Canada's maritime provinces will be dumbstruck by the vast extense of natural beauty the area has to offer. Outdoor enthusiasts will be in their element whether roaming the forests, exploring the quiet beaches or diving in the clear Atlantic waters. Those with a cultural preference should head for the fine art galleries & museums in New Brunswick or sample the local vintages thanks to Fodor's extensive reviews of the Nova Scotian wineries. Fodor's guide will give you all the information you need to navigate this region with the greatest of ease & enjoyment. ...

Bjørn Hansen, a respectable town treasurer, has just turned fifty & is horrified by the thought that chance has ruled his life. Eighteen years ago he left his wife & their two-year-old son for his mistress, who persuaded him to start afresh in a small, provincial town & to dabble in amateur dramatics. In time that relationship also faded, & after four years of living alone Bjørn contemplates an extraordinary course of action that will change his life for ever.

He finds a fellow conspirator in Dr Schiøtz, who has a secret of his own & offers to help Bjørn carry his preposterous & dangerous plan through to its logical conclusion. However, the sudden reappearance of his son both fills Bjørn with new hope & complicates matters. The desire to gamble with his comfortable existence proves irresistible, however, taking him to Vilnius in Lithuania, where very soon he cannot tell whether he's tangled up in a game or reality.

Novel 11, Book 18, for which Dag Solstad received the Norwegian Critics



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Fuller's poetry can be seen to build a bridge of boats between light verse & solemn elegy with the best technique of anyone writing in Britain now, ' Peter Porter. Throughout his long & prolific career, John Fuller has been admired for the way in which he melds levity with serious reflection. In this beautiful new collection of twenty-one poems he proves himself, once again, a true master of this art. They take us from birth to death: from a baby's first delightful babblings, to the dignified, measured words of a man surveying his life & marriage, & looking forward into the unknown. There are moments of great joie de vivre, of pleasure in the earthy things of life; & yet, beyond, there is always a sense of a vaster, more elusive universe. The snorting of the horses in a field in ' Dreams', the egret on the rock in ' Sentinel': these are nature's mysteries. To make sense of these, we have language & music. Celebratory, playful, reconciled to the questions that will not be answered, these poems exude a miraculous kind of peace & understanding: 'A point of closure that allows the next/ Inevitable sentence to begin. ...

In Now I Know the body of a young man, crucified on a metal cross, is found dangling from a crane in a scrapyard & subsequently ...

The body of a young man, crucified on a metal cross, is found dangling from a crane in a scrapyard & subsequently vanishes. Tom, an ambitious young police officer, think he's had a lucky break when he's put in charge of this bizzare murder investigation. Nik is doing research for a film about a contemporary life of Jesus. Their independent investigations ultimately bring them together in an unexpected climax. ...

Now Is the Hour is the first major novel by Tom Spanbauer since The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon in ...

Now Is the Hour is the first major novel by Tom Spanbauer since The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon in ...

Now is the Time became an instant bestseller when it was first published, & it has continued to sell to an increasing & eager ...

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Tender, precise, comic & chilling by turn, the stories in A L Kennedy's new collection confirm her reputation as one of the most exciting new writers to have appeared in the past decade. Exposing & exploring the sinuous undercurrents of violence, anguish & love, she examines the nature of the individual, both in isolation & society, as characters define & deny their chosen identities. While showing us the unlikeliness of intimacy & the impossibility of communication, Kennedy also reveals the subversive liberation of impotence, the humour of discomfort as human beings chafe together, the crazed claustrophobia of the family & the wildly funny results of an eccentricity unleashed. ...