When his fist album was released in 1967, Leonard Cohen was already well known in his native Canada as a poet & novelist, & in the United States as the writer behind Judy Collins' hugely popular recording of ' Suzanne. ' With the sucess of the first & through the release of ten more albums, Cohen Gained a reputation as a dazzlingly literate & consistently daring songwriter. Over the years his status as a cult artist has grown, & in 1988 the release of his album I'm Your Man' put Cohen back into the mainstream spotlight. His latest recording, ' The Future' has brought him renewed, widespread acclaim & this collection will include lyrics from that album, together with many of his famous classics, such as Suzanne, Joan of Arcand The Chelsea Hotel. STRANGER MUSIC brings together Cohen's song lyrics & a generous selection of his poetry (originally published between 1956-1992). It is a long overdue celebration of Leonard Cohen's extraordinary gift for language that speaks with rare clarity, passion & timelessness. ...

J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world's greatest novelists. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography & the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. Stranger Shores opens with ' What is a Classic?' in which Coetzee explores the answer to his own question
- ' What does it mean in living terms to say that the classic is what survives?'
- by way of TS Eliot, JS Bach & Zbigniew Herbert. His subjects range from eighteenth & nineteenth century writers Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson & Ivan Turgenev, to the great German modernists Rilke, Kafka, & Musil, to the giants of late twentieth century literature, among them Harry Mulisch, Joseph Brodsky, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Amos Oz, Naguib Mahfouz, Nadine Gordimer & Doris Lessing.

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J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world's greatest novelists. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography & the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. STRANGER SHORES opens with ' What is a Classic?' in which Coetzee explores the answer to his own question-' What does it mean in living terms to say that the classic is what survives?'-by way of T. S. Eliot, J. S. Bach & Zbigniew Herbert. His subjects range from eighteenth & nineteenth century writers Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson & Ivan Turgenev, to the great German modernists Rilke, Kafka, & Musil, to the giants of late twentieth century literature, among them Harry Mulisch, Joseph Brodsky, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Amos Oz, Naguib Mahfouz, Nadine Gordimer & Doris Lessing. ...

Alastair Strange is addicted to TV. Tell him to get a life & he'd settle down in font of ' Coronation Street'. But Life is coming to get Alistair. In an attempt to escape his bizarre family & stagnation up North, Alistair moves to Fulham where he lands a job editing for a vanity publisher. True, it is an odd kind of job, but Alistair is used to oddness: his parents are strange, his elder brother is strange his name is strange... Hoping to find stability in a romance with his flat mate, the lovely but troubled Martha, he finds himself disappointed. Martha's behaviour is careering out of control & it looks like she might abscond to Nepal with his big brother Gus. Can he rescue Martha? Can he get to the bottom of why his father speaks four languages & Gus is really Jeremy? & does life resemble TV? STRANGER THAN FULHAM is wildly funny, tender-hearted debut from a great new comic talent with an irresistibly jaundiced eye for the absurdities of young urban life. ...

Based on fact, but told with the imagination of a novelist, STRANGERS is the story of the author's family, the Tennants. Margot Asquith & Pamela Tennant (nee Wyndham), warring sisters-in-law; Pamela's children, her 'jewels'
- Clare the wilful beauty, Stephen Tennant the outrageous aesthete, David the nightclub king, & the steady, sensible Christopher who becomes head of the family when the eldest brother Bim dies on the Somme
- these are some of the characters brought to sudden & not always respectable life in this funny, touching & sometimes shocking novel. Their antics, dreams & grief are witnessed by the maid Louisa, & played out chiefly at Glen, the castle in the border of Scotl&, where the young narrator pulls from long-sealed cupboards the stories of her family's past. But as the secrets emerge the myth woven around the glamorous figures of the past is both enhanced & dispelled. Haunting & compelling, STRANGERS presents a family & its young detective in a startling light.

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The Psychologists would call it folie a deux.... ' Bruno slammed his palms together. ' Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife & you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, & nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?'' From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt & an insidious merging of personalities. ...

Suzette Shard, a celebrity English model thinking to get away from it all in fetid French Guyana, finds herself prey to the locals & their arcane, mysterious SM rituals. But the gifted employees of the French space programme have foibles that make the locals look like rank amateurs in the ways of corporal punishment. Against the forbidding background of Devil ...