Having saved the city cats from a fate worse than death Varjak Paw finds himself the elected & popular leader of a new gang
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WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME PRIZE 2016 When Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after more than a decade away she is drawn back to the Outrun on the sheep farm where she grew up Approaching the land that was once home memories of her childhood merge with the recent events that have set her on this journey Amy was shaped by the cycle of the seasons birth & death on the farm & her father's mental illness which were as much a part of her childhood as the wild carefree existence on Orkney But as she grew up she longed to leave this remote life She moved to London & found herself in a hedonistic cycle Unable to control her drinking alcohol gradually took over Now thirty she finds herself washed up back home on Orkney standing unstable at the cliff edge trying to come to terms with what happened to her in London Spending early mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea the days tracking Orkney's wildlife
- puffins nesting on sea stacks arctic terns swooping close enough to feel their wings
- & nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers Amy slowly makes the journey towards recovery from addiction The Outrun is a beautiful inspiring book about living on the edge about the pull between island & city & about the ability of the sea the land the wind & the moon to restore life & renew hope

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The Sunday Times runaway bestseller
- an exhilarating nature memoir about recovering from alcoholism in Orkney 304 pages Liptrot
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The Outsider is an enduring classic of existential writing by Albert Camus' Mother died today Or maybe yesterday I don't know' Meursault is different He will not lie He will not pretend He is true to himself So when his mother dies & he is unmoved he refuses to do the proper thing & grieve Returning to Algiers after the funeral he carries on life as usual until he becomes involved in a violent murder In court it is clear that Meursault's guilt or innocence will not be determined by what he did or did not do He is on trial for being different
- an outsider' The story of a beach murder one of the century's classic novels Blood & sand' JG Ballard'A compelling dreamlike fable' Guardian Albert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913 He studied philosophy in Algiers & then worked in Paris as a journalist He was one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement & after the War established his international reputation as a writer His books include The Plague The Just & The Fall & he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 Camus was killed in a road accident in 1960
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Albert Camus' laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria is famous in its time for diagnosing a state of alienation & spiritual exhaustion which summed up the mood of the mid-twentieth century Today more than fifty years after its first appearance we can see that this early success was no passing fashion The Outsider continues to speak to us of ultimate things with the force of a parable & the excitement of a thriller & remains one of the most widely read & influential classics of the century ...

' My mother died today Or maybe yesterday I don't know' In The Outsider (1942) his classic existentialist novel Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms Meursault his anti-hero will not lie When his mother dies he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others & when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society & the law Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal Albert Camus' portrayal of a man confronting the absurd & revolting against the injustice of society depicts the paradox of man's joy in life when faced with the 'tender indifference' of the world Sandra Smith's translation based on close listening to a recording of Camus reading his work aloud on French radio in 1954 sensitively renders the subtleties & dream-like atmosphere of L' Etranger Albert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist essayist & playwright is one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century His most famous works include The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) The Plague (1947) The Just (1949) The Rebel (1951) & The Fall (1956) He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 & his last novel The First Man unfinished at the time of his death appeared in print for the first time in 1994 & was published in English soon after by Hamish Hamilton Sandra Smith was born & raised in New York City & is a Fellow of Robinson College University of Cambridge where she teaches French Literature & Language She has won the French American Foundation Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize as well as the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize ...

The classic study of alienation creativity & the modern mind THE OUTSIDER was an instant literary sensation when it was first published in 1956 thrusting its youthful author into the front rank of contemporary writers & thinkers Wilson rationalized the psychological dislocation so characteristic of Western creative thinking into a coherent theory of alienation & defined those affected by it as a type the outsider Through the works & lives of various artists including Kafka Camus Hemingway Hesse Lawrence Van Gogh Shaw Nietzsche & Dostoevsky Wilson explored the psyche of the outsider his effect on society & society's on him Nothing that has happened in the decades since has made THE OUTSIDER any less relevant; it remains the seminal work on this most persistent of modern-day preoccupations ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In the vein of Taken Craig Fairbrass stars as Lex a British military contractor who is told that his daughter has died When he arrives in Los Angeles he discovers that the body isn&t his daughters & that an internet fraudster is holding her hostage Lex sets out to save his daughter wreaking havoc through the streets of LA trying to rescue her ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Medical drama & romance are intertwined in this engaging feature from Austrian-born director Paul L Stein Mary Maguire & George Sanders head a first-rate cast in The Outsider based on Dorothy Brandon&s popular 1920s stage play & presented here in a br&-new transfer from the original film elements Lalage Sturdee is a brilliant pianist Virtually abandoned at birth by her father an eminent surgeon a mishap at the hands of an unqualified practitioner has left her disabled for life or so she believes Despite her father&s objections she puts her faith in Anton Ragatzy the ebullient & outspoken inventor of a machine which appears to give miraculous results A machine which will either cure her completely or cripple her forever ...

' If an Outsider wields the blade the House of Koronos burns' Hylas is only a boy but he knows three things The Gods exist Magic is real Somebody wants him dead Hunted & alone Hylas is desperate to find his missing sister His quest takes him across the hostile mountains & treacherous seas of Ancient Greece His only friend is a girl on the run His only guide is a wild dolphin And his murderous enemies are closing in This action-packed adventure story is perfect for kids aged 9-12' Electrifying'
- Independent on Sunday' The reader's attention is caught from the first linespellbinding'
- Telegraph' Set to become another children's classic'
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