New York Times bestseller A Guardian Observer Book of the Year When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances he & his three adult children assume new identities taking ' Roman' names & move into a grand mansion in downtown Manhattan Arriving shortly after the inauguration of Barack Obama he & his sons each extraordinary in his own right quickly establish themselves at the apex of New York society The story of the Golden family is told from the point of view of their Manhattanite neighbour & confidant Rene an aspiring filmmaker who finds in the Goldens the perfect subject Rene chronicles the undoing of the house of Golden the high life of money of art & fashion a sibling quarrel an unexpected metamorphosis the arrival of a beautiful woman betrayal & murder & far away in their abandoned homeland some decent intelligence work Invoking literature pop culture & the cinema Rushdie spins the story of the American zeitgeist over the last eight years hitting every beat the rise of the birther movement the Tea Party Gamergate & identity politics; the backlash against political correctness; the ascendency of the superhero movie & of course the insurgence of a ruthlessly ambitious narcissistic media-savvy villain wearing make-up & with coloured hair In a new world order of alternative truths Salman Rushdie has written the ultimate novel about identity truth terror & lies A brilliant heartbreaking realist novel that is not only uncannily prescient but shows one of the world's greatest storytellers working at the height of his powers ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018 For weeks someone has been broadcasting people's secrets from the minarets of the city's mosques striking fear into the hearts of Christians & Muslims alike Then when shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road & Nargis's husband Massud a fellow architect is caught in the crossfire she is unable to confess to him her greatest secret before he dies But as the anonymous broadcasts continue is it merely a matter of time before her past is exposed? The Golden Legend is a timely & luminous story of corruption resilience & the hope that only love & the human spirit can offer ...

Within the dark heart of an abandoned city on an island once torn by betrayal & war lies a terrible secret 280 pages Raymond Gary ...

A treasure trove of advice support & encouragement that no performer should be without Honest witty & direct The Golden Rules of Acting is every actor's best friend
- in handy paperback form ' When auditioning rehearsing or in a performance take a risk
- the worst that can happen is that you get embarrassed You won't die' Easy to dip into fully illustrated throughout & designed to be both instructive & empowering The Golden Rules of Acting won't tell you how to act
- but it will tell you how to be an actor ' Always remember the people auditioning you want you to be brilliant They want you to solve their casting problem' If you're a working actor drama-school student someone who wants to become an actor or simply someone who has a dream & wants to make it a reality this book is for you 'NEVER harmonise when singing ' Happy Birthday'
- this has nothing to do with work it's just all actors do it & it's bloody annoying' Andy Nyman learnt the golden rules of acting the hard way through twenty-five years of working in theatre film & television On stage he co-wrote co-directed & starred in the West End hit Ghost Stories & won an Olivier Award for Best Entertainment for co-writing & directing Something Wicked This Way Comes with his regular collaborator Derren Brown His many film appearances include Severance & Frank Oz's Death at a Funeral



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The New York Times & 1 internationally bestselling author of Secret Daughter returns with an unforgettable story of family responsibility love honor tradition & identity in which two childhood friends-a young doctor & a newly married bride-must balance the expectations of their culture & their families with the desires of their own hearts The first of his family to go to college Anil Patel the golden son carries the weight of tradition & his family's expectations when he leaves his tiny Indian village to begin a medical residency in Dallas Texas at one of the busiest & most competitive hospitals in America When his father dies Anil becomes the de facto head of the Patel household & inherits the mantle of arbiter for all of the village's disputes But he is uneasy with the custom uncertain that he has the wisdom & courage demonstrated by his father & grandfather His doubts are compounded by the difficulties he discovers in adjusting to a new culture & a new job challenges that will shake his confidence in himself & his abilities Back home in India Anil's closest childhood friend Leena struggles to adapt to her demanding new husband & relatives Arranged by her parents the marriage shatters Leena's romantic hopes & eventually forces her to make a desperate choice that will hold drastic repercussions for herself & her family Though Anil & Leena struggle to come to terms with their identities thousands of miles apart their lives eventually intersect once more-changing them both & the people they love forever Tender & bittersweet The Golden Son illuminates the ambivalence of people caught between past & present tradition & modernity duty & choice; the push & pull of living in two cultures & the painful decisions we must make to find our true selves ...

The tarot deck included in this beautiful set was commissioned around 1451 by the Visconti & Sforza families & it is one of the oldest tarot decks in existence This beautiful special gift box holds the book & card deck side by side with a violet satin reading cloth folded & placed underneath the book The Tarot is much more than mere pictures on cards the pictures are physical symbols for spiritual concepts The images are symbolic representation of archetypal forces andor beings which have always existed & have been identified & passed on to us by ancient initiates & which provide a focus for us to use in self-initiation spiritual development & the perception of hidden wisdom The tarot deck included in this beautiful set was commissioned around 1451 by the Visconti & Sforza families & it is one of the oldest tarot decks in existence The images on the cards have been faithfully recreated showing members of the Sforza & Visconti families in period garments The borders of the elegant cards are adorned with gold metallic ink The accompanying book provides a history of Visconti-Sforza cards 35 of which are now in the collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City The symbolism of the different cards is described along with explanations of different ways to arrange the cards when seeking information about different aspects of life This beautiful special gift box holds the book & card deck side by side with a violet satin reading cloth folded & placed underneath the book ...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014 Aged thirteen Theo Decker son of a devoted mother & a reckless largely absent father survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart Alone & rudderless in New York he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother & down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her a small strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld As he grows up Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich & the dusty antiques store where he works He is alienated & in love
- & his talisman the painting places him at the centre of a narrowing ever more dangerous circle The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America & a drama of enthralling power Combining unforgettably vivid characters & thrilling suspense it is a beautiful addictive triumph
- a sweeping story of loss & obsession of survival & self-invention of the deepest mysteries of love identity & fate

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From the Carnegie Medal-winning author of Buffalo Soldier comes the story of a young girl struggling to change the course of her fate From the Carnegie Medal-winning author of Buffalo Soldier comes the story of a young girl struggling to change the course of her fate as the once mighty Aztec Empire collapses around her In the golden city of Tenochtitlan the people live in fear of the gods; to keep them at bay they are prepared to pay a toll in blood Itacate a girl born under an ill-fated sky is destined for a life of submission & domestic drudgery But her father a goldsmith discovers her talent for his craft & so she begins to work as his apprentice in secret When Spanish raiders invade the city she finds herself at risk of being exposed Can she escape her destiny & survive in this harsh new world? ...

This second volume of the brilliant bestselling Bartimaeus sequence Two years have passed since the events of The Amulet of Samarkand & the young magician Nathaniel is rising fast through the government ranks But his career is suddenly threatened by a series of terrifying crises A dangerous golem makes random attacks on London & other raids even more threatening are perpetrated by the Resistance Nathaniel & Bartimaeus travel to Prague enemy city of ancient magic but while they are there uproar breaks out at home & Nathaniel returns to find his reputation in tatters Can he rescue it from his Machiavellian adversaries in the government bent on his destruction? A thrilling sequel in which the relationship between the young magician & the djinni remains as teasing & complex as ever ...

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