An outstanding short novel by an author included in ” Granta”`s ” Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists.”A professor & a student in a nervous courtship are driving to his friend`s country house for a weekend. Towards the end of their journey they come upon an accident in the road where a horse is fatally injured. The lovers try to help, something that will put them through their first disagreements & towards their first truly tender moment. With his insight into the sweet jerkiness that defines our romantic encounters, Barba portrays the fragile atmosphere between two people. ...

Shanghai in 1990. An ancient city in a country that despite the massacre of Tiananmen Square is still in the tight grip of communist control. Chief Inspector Chen, a poet with a sound instinct for self-preservation, knows the city like few others. When the body of a prominent Communist Party member is found, Chen is told to keep the party authorities informed about every lead. Also, he must keep the young woman`s murder out of the papers at all costs. When his investigation leads him to the decadent offspring of high-ranking officials, he finds himself instantly removed from the case & reassigned to another area. Chen has a choice: bend to the party`s wishes & sacrifice his morals, or continue his investigation & risk dismissal from his job & from the party. Or worse.. . ...

This edition of ” Death of a Revolutionary” contains the latest information on Che Guevara. With fresh revelations about Che`s revolutionary legacy Richard Harris discusses the renewed interest in his ideas stimulated by the election of leftist governments in Latin America. Numerous events will be held to mark the 80th anniversary of Che`s birth & 40th anniversary of his death. Steven Soderbergh`s film, ” Guerrilla” & several documentaries are set for release in late 2007 & 2008. ...

Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini, river guide, lies drowning. Beset by visions at once horrible & fabulous, he relives not just his own life but that of his family & forebears, & finds a world where dreaming reasserts its power over thinking. ...

FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014. Trapped within a waterfall on the wild Franklin River, Tasmanian river guide, Aljaz Cosini, lies drowning. As the tourists he has been guiding down the river seek to save him, Aljaz is beset by visions horrible & fabulous. As the rapids rise, Aljaz relives not just his own life but also his country`s dreaming. ...

In Fay Weldon`s 1983 classic, The Life & Loves of a She Devil, women fought men for power & won. But in 2017, the fight continues on a new front... Ruth Patchett, the original She Devil, is eighty-four & keen to retire. She has worked hard to make the world as she wants it: women triumphant, men submissive. Now she is tired. Her business is done. The mantle of power & influence is up for grabs. Who can take up the role? Valerie Valeria, hot-shot millennial & Ruth`s PA, is ready & eager to inherit... ...

A beautiful teenage girl, Simona Biondi, has gone missing from her home in the Italian capital. Castagnetti, the private detective hired by her parents, trawls the streets of Rome, finding himself drawn into the dark, erotic world of a TV empire belonging to a media mogul turned politician called Mario Di Angelo. He unearths a murky world in which nubile young women, desperate for stardom, are prepared to do anything to get a break; in which powerful men are happy to exploit that desperation in order to make money & make love. Castagnetti discovers that Anna Sartori, a young woman on the fringes of the Di Angelo empire, went missing almost twenty years ago. Anna Sartori`s best friend, he finds out, was Simona`s sister. This is a world, Castagnetti realises, where secrets are like fireworks: you don`t see them until they explode. ...

Donald Delpe is a troubled teenager. Not only is he a `terrible teen` by default, as obsessed with sex, music, videogames & drugs as the rest of his gang, but he is also suffering from a life-threatening form of leukaemia, which makes him an even more difficult boy, both for his parents & his teachers. Escaping into his own comic-book realm of immortal superheroes, ruthless villains & sex-crazed vamps, he repeatedly dashes his family`s hopes by refusing to fight the battles facing him in the real world. As famous psychologist Dr King is brought in to help, a glimmer of hope is rekindled. But will the doctor break the rules, betray the parents` trust & risk everything to help Donald achieve his greatest wish? Or will Donald be the one to save the doctor? ...

After that summer in Kabul province, the young freelancer became a staff reporter for The Times of London, covering conflicts in Northern Irel&, the Gulf, Pakistan, Sri Lanka & the Balkans but Afghanistan never let him go.A young, devil-may-care Englishman, determined to report on the Soviet war & make a name for himself, makes a fateful commitment to a swashbuckling Afghan guerrilla commander. Not only will he go inside the capital secretly & live in the network of safe houses run by the resistance, he will travel around the city in a Soviet Army jeep, dressed as a Russian officer. Waiting in the mountain camp, from where Niazuldin`s band of fighters lived & planned their hit-&-run attacks on Soviet troops, Ed Gorman discovers what it means to experience combat with men whose only interest is to be killed or martyred. Death of a Translator is a searingly honest description of a mind haunted & eventually paralysed by the terror of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. ...

Death of an Airman is an enjoyable & unorthodox whodunit from a writer whose short life was as remarkable as that of any of his fictional creations. When an aeroplane crashes, & its pilot is killed, Edwin Marriott, the Bishop of Cootamundra in Australia, is on h&. In England on leave, the Bishop has decided to learn how to fly, but he is not convinced that the pilot`s death was accidental. In due course, naturally, he is proved right. The Bishop & Inspector Bray of Scotland Yard make an appealing pair of detectives, & ultimately a cunning criminal scheme is uncovered. ...