The marriage of Kaname & Misako is disintegrating: whilst seeking passion & fulfilment in the arms of others, they contemplate the humiliation of divorce. Misako's father believes their relationship has been damaged by the influence of a new & alien culture, & so attempts to heal the breach by educating his son-in-law in the time-honoured Japanese traditions of aesthetic & sensual pleasure. The result is an absorbing, chilling conflict between ancient & modern, young & old. ...

page in front of him, testify to his final, triumphant burst of creativity. for what precisely it would be remarkably difficult to say.' Painter & draughtsman, novelist, satirist, pamphleteer & critic, Lewis's multifarious activities defy easy categorisation. He launched the only twentieth-century English avant garde movement, Vorticism, in 1914. His first novel, Tarr, was published in 1918. During the intervening World War, as an artillery officer at the third battle of Ypres, he gained his 'political education under fire'. Anti-war books of the 1930s argued against what he regarded as a war-mongering left-wing orthodoxy, & presented the case for the right. This placed him in the position somewhere between an advocate of appeasement & what looked uncomfortably like a Nazi sympathizer. Despite an admission, in 1939, that he had been wrong about Hitler, his reputation never recovered from the stigma of Fascism. After the Second World War, spent in penniless & bitter exile in Canada, he returned to London &, in the last decade of his life, received some measure of the success & recognition he had been denied for so long. It coincided, tragically, with the realisation that he was going blind. Visual expression denied him, he devoted all his remaining energies to writing. Seven books in as many years, written in laborious longhand when he was unable to see the ...

page in front of him, testify to his final, triumphant burst of creativity. for what precisely it would be remarkably difficult to say.' Painter & draughtsman, novelist, satirist, pamphleteer & critic, Lewis's multifarious activities defy easy categorisation. He launched the only twentieth-century English avant garde movement, Vorticism, in 1914. His first novel, Tarr, was published in 1918. During the intervening World War, as an artillery officer at the third battle of Ypres, he gained his 'political education under fire'. Anti-war books of the 1930s argued against what he regarded as a war-mongering left-wing orthodoxy, & presented the case for the right. This placed him in the position somewhere between an advocate of appeasement & what looked uncomfortably like a Nazi sympathizer. Despite an admission, in 1939, that he had been wrong about Hitler, his reputation never recovered from the stigma of Fascism. After the Second World War, spent in penniless & bitter exile in Canada, he returned to London &, in the last decade of his life, received some measure of the success & recognition he had been denied for so long. It coincided, tragically, with the realisation that he was going blind. Visual expression denied him, he devoted all his remaining energies to writing. Seven books in as many years, written in laborious longhand when he was unable to see the ...

Thirty years old, successful & stunning, Darcy Rhone used to think that 'being down & out' meant not finding a size four ...

Rachel Miller & Darcy Rhone have been best friends since childhood. They've shared birthdays, the horrors of high school & even boyfriends, but while Darcy is the sort of woman who breezes through life getting what she wants when she wants it, Rachel has always played by the rules & watched her stunning best friend steal all the limelight. The one thing Rachel's always had over Darcy is the four-month age gap which meant she was first to being a teenager, first to drive, first to everything
- but now she's about to be first to thirty. & Darcy still has a charmed life. On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Rachel is shocked to find herself questioning the status quo. How come Darcy gets a glamorous job at a PR firm & the perfect boyfriend, while Rachel grinds away at her despised job as an attorney & remains painfully single. Is it just luck? Or, looking back at their friendship & their lives together, is it a bit more complicated than that? Then an accidental fling complicates everything, & it's time for Rachel to make a few hard choices. & she's suddenly forced to learn that sometimes true love comes at a price.. .
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A butler named Keggs who, having overheard the planning of a scheme, later decides to try & make money out of his knowledge.

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A Blandings novel

This is the first Blandings novel, in which P.G. Wodehouse introduces us to the delightfully dotty

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A Blandings novel

This is the first Blandings novel, in which P.G. Wodehouse introduces us to the delightfully dotty

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