Track Listings Disc 1 1 All I Ever Wanted
- The Rua 2 Emergency Exit
- The Rua 3 Won't Let Go
- The Rua 4 Our Skies
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A Sunday Times Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year Of all the great novelists writing today none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction
- his essays literary criticism & journalism are justly acclaimed As Rachel Cusk wrote in the The Times reviewing a previous collection Amis is as talented a journalist as he is a novelist but these essays all manifest an unusual extra quality one that is not unlike friendship He makes an effort; he makes readers feel that they are the only person there' The essays in The Rub of Time range from superb critical pieces on Amis's heroes Nabokov Bellow & Larkin to brilliantly funny ruminations on sport Las Vegas John Travolta & the pornography industry The collection

Includes:: his essay on Princess Diana & a tribute to his great friend Christopher Hitchens but at the centre of the book perhaps inevitably are essays on politics & in particular the American election campaigns of 2012 & 2016 One of the very few consolations of Donald Trump's rise to power is that Martin Amis is there to write about him


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Of all the great novelists writing today none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction
- his essays literary
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In the renowned translation by Edward Fitz Gerald with an introduction by Professor Cedric Watts Here is Edward Fitz Gerald's original translation of the Rubaiyat the collection of poems attributed to the Persian astronomer & mathematician Omar Khayyam Fitz Gerald's distinctive version (1859) with its oriental imagery & sensual warmth made an exotic appeal to the Victorian imagination Its scepticism fitted a time of increasing religious doubt; its romantic melancholy resonated with the writings of Matthew Arnold & Thomas Hardy; & its epicureanism heralded the Aesthetic Movement It has inspired composers rock groups artists & film-makers As rendered by Fitz Gerald the Rubaiyat remains a seductively subversive poem ...

Two men two empires Jaibriol ruled the Eubian Concord over two trillion people across more than a thousand worlds & habitats Kelric ruled the Skolian Imperialate War had come before-ten years ago Jaibriol had lost his parents in the final battle of the Radiance War between the Concord & the Imperialate-and it might come again devastating vast swathes of the galaxy Neither Jaibriol nor Kelric wanted war but neither was complete master of his realm & each hid a secret that if revealed might be his downfall Jaibriol was a secret psion with telepathic abilities & to be a psion in the Eubian Concord was to be a contemptible slave eventually to be tortured for the pleasure of the slave&s owner Kelric years ago had disappeared for nearly two decades He had been a prisoner & slave on the planet Coban part of neither empire until he had managed to escape & if the Skolian Imperialate knew of his captivity there would be demands for vengeance ravaging Coban-and killing the wife & children Kelric had left behind when he escaped Neither man knew how much longer he could keep his secret-nor how much longer they could hold back the threat of a war that could incinerate hundreds of inhabited worlds ...

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A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence & revolution as seen through mythology & art The Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects the first is Talleyrand & the second is everything else wrote Italo Calvino when the book first appeared in 1983 Hailed as one of those rare books that persuade us to see our entire civilization in a new light its guide is the French statesman Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand who knew the secrets of the ancien regime & all that came after & was able to adapt the notion of legitimacy to the modern age Roberto Calasso follows him through a vast gallery of scenes set immediately before & after the French Revolution making occasional forays backward & forward in time from Vedic India to the porticoes of the Palais-Royal & to the killing fields of Pol Pot with appearances by Goethe & Marie Antoinette Napoleon & Marx Walter Benjamin & Chateaubriand At the centre stands the story of the ruin of Kasch a legendary kingdom based on the ritual killing of the king & emblematic of the ruin of ancient & modern regimes' Startling puzzling profound a work charged with intelligence & literary seduction' The New York Times' Unique idiosyncratic & vaultingly ambitious essential reading' Independent'A great fat jewel-box of a book gleaming with obscure treasures' John Banville ...

Craving an adventure to wake them from their lethargic Mexican holiday before they return home four friends set off in search of one of their own who has travelled to the interior to investigate an archaeological dig in the Mayan ruins After a long journey into the jungle the group come across a partly camouflaged trail & a captivating hillside covered with red flowers Lured by these the group move closer until they happen across a gun-toting Mayan horseman who orders them away In the midst of the confrontation one of the group steps inadvertently backwards into the flowering vine & at that moment their world changes for ever ...

The Ruins of Gorlan is the first thrilling book in John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series
- over eight million sold worldwide
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' Idleness is the enemy of the soul' Saint Benedict's advice to monks
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