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 ...

Cat Harrington leads a double life. A Los Angeles script editor with successful engineer boyfriend, she engages in a risky & risqué relationship with Brock, the rough-&-ready head of a movie road crew, who fulfills her sensuous cravings for honest, skin-on-skin sex. He ...

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

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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Bob Slocum was a promising executive. He had an attractive wife, three children, a nice house, & as many mistresses as he desired. His life was settled & ordered; he had conformed & society demanded he be happy
- or at least pretend to be, But the pretence was becoming more & more difficult, as Slocum's discontent grew into an overwhelming sense of desolation, frustration & fear. & then something happened....
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