It's the boom years of the 1980s, & life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels outside his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighbourhood. In between paralyzing bouts of claustrophobia, Nathan wonders whether he should cheat on his wife with Karoline, a German pastry maker whose parents may or may not have been Nazis. His father, Harry, is plotting with the 1960s boogaloo star Chow Mein Vega for the comeback of this dance craze. Meanwhile, a homicidal drug addict is terrorizing the neighbourhood. With its ensemble cast of unforgettable characters, Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue is a comedy of cultures about the old & the new, about Latinos, Jews, Sicilians & Germans. It's about struggling to hold onto life in a rapidly changing world, about food & sex & about how our lives are shaped by love & guilt. ...

It's the boom years of the 1980s, & life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels outside his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighbourhood. In between paralyzing bouts of claustrophobia, Nathan wonders whether he should cheat on his wife with Karoline, a German pastry maker whose parents may or may not have been Nazis. His father, Harry, is plotting with the 1960s boogaloo star Chow Mein Vega for the comeback of this dance craze. Meanwhile, a homicidal drug addict is terrorizing the neighbourhood. With its ensemble cast of unforgettable characters, Boogaloo on Second Avenue is a comedy of cultures about the old & the new, about Latinos, Jews, Sicilians & Germans. It's about struggling to hold onto life in a rapidly changing world, about food & sex & about how our lives are shaped by love & guilt. ...

It's the boom years of the 1980s, & life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels outside his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighbourhood. In between paralyzing bouts of claustrophobia, Nathan wonders whether he should cheat on his wife with Karoline, a German pastry maker whose parents may or may not have been Nazis. His father, Harry, is plotting with the 1960s boogaloo star Chow Mein Vega for the comeback of this dance craze. Meanwhile, a homicidal drug addict is terrorizing the neighbourhood. With its ensemble cast of unforgettable characters, Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue is a comedy of cultures about the old & the new, about Latinos, Jews, Sicilians & Germans. It's about struggling to hold onto life in a rapidly changing world, about food & sex & about how our lives are shaped by love & guilt. ...

This extraordinary magnum opus seems at first to be a confessional autobiographical novel in the grand manner, claiming & extending the lagacy of Proust & Mann. A BOOK OF MEMORIES is made up of three first-person narratives: the first that of a young Hungarian writer & his fated love for a German poet; we also learn of the narrator's adolescence in Budapest, when he experiences the downfall of his once upper-class but now pro-Communist family. A second memoir, alternating with the first, is a novel the narrator is composing about a refined Belle Epoque aesthete, whose anti-bourgeois transgressions seem like emotionally overcharged versions of the narrator's own experiences. A third voice is that of a childhood friend who, after the narrator's return to his homel&, offers an apparently more objective account of their friendship. Together these brilliantly coloured lives are inte-grated in a powerful work of tragic intensity. ...

A shocking truth lies within the pages of an ancient library, locked inside a high-security complex deep beneath the Nevada ...

A shocking truth lies within the pages of an ancient library, locked inside a high-security complex deep beneath the Nevada ...

In February of 1970, Thomas Lynch, aged twenty-one, bought a one-way ticket to Irel&. He landed in the townland of Moveen, at the edge of the ocean in West Clare, outside the thatched cottage that his great-grandfather had left late in the nineteenth century with a one-way ticket to America. Tommy & Nora Lynch, Thomas Lynch ...