Four twenty-somethings share an apartment in Tokyo. In Parade each tells their story: their lives, their hopes & fears, their loves, their secrets. Kotomi waits by the phone for a boyfriend who never calls. Ryosuke wants someone that he can`t have. Mirai spends her days drawing & her nights hanging out in gay bars. Naoki works for a film company, & everyone treats him like an elder brother. Then Satoru turns up. He`s eighteen, homeless, & does night work of a very particular type. In the next-door apartment something disturbing is going on. & outside, in the streets around their apartment block, there is violence in the air. From the writer of the cult classic Villain, Parade is a tense, disturbing, thrilling tale of life in the city. ...

Parade's End is the great British war novel & Ford Madox Ford's major achievement as a novelist. Originally published as four linked novels between 1924 & 1928, it follows the story of Christopher Tietjens, as his life is shattered by his wife's infidelities & overturned by the mud, blood & destruction of the First World War. Tietjens, with his old-fashioned Tory values, is already out of step with the corrupt political culture of Edwardian England: his experiences at the Front & his developing relationship with the suffragette Valentine Wannop force him into a radical reconfiguring of his values as he participates in the post-war period of national re-construction. Parade's End is both a subtly perceptive psychological novel & a richly descriptive chronicle of 'the public events of a decade'. Through Tietjens, his beautiful (and unforgettably cruel) wife, Sylvia, & the principled Valentine, Ford draws us into the world of the English upper class as it goes through a period of crisis & transformation. ...

Booker Prize-winner Julian Barnes introduces Ford Madox Ford`s masterpiece ” Parade`s End”
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The Great War changes everything. In this epic tale, spanning over a decade, war turns the world of privileged, English aristocrat Christopher Tietjens upside down. It forces him to question everything he holds dear
- social order, morality, marriage & loyalty. & it rocks the very foundations of English society. This is a powerful story about love, betrayal & disillusionment in a time of horror & confusion by one of Britain`s finest novelists. Ford Madox Ford`s monumental novel came to our screens in August 2012 as a major BBC adaptation, with a screenplay by the legendary playwright Tom Stoppard & a stellar cast that included Benedict Cumberbatch. This edition of the novel

Includes:: all four parts, originally published separately between 1924 & 1928.


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Almost forty & with nothing to show for it, Hannah Luckraft is starting to notice that her lifestyle is not entirely sustainable: her subconscious is turning against her, her soul is a little unwell. Her family is wounded, her friends are odd, her body is not as reliable as it once was & her drinking is frankly out of h&. Robert, a dissolute dentist, appears to offer a love she can underst&, but he may only be one more symptom of the problem she must cure. From the north-east of Scotland to Dublin, from London to Montreal, to Budapest & onwards, Hannah travels in search of the ultimate altered state: the one where she can be happy
- her paradise. Paradise is a compelling examination of failure that is also a comic triumph, a novel of dark extremes that is full of the most ravishing lyrical beauty.
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Mario Leme is a low-ranking detective in the Sao Paolo civil police. Every day on the way to work he sets off early & drives through the favela known as Paraisopolis
- Paradise City. It`s a pilgrimage: his wife Renata was gunned down at an intersection here a year ago, the victim of a stray bullet in a conflict between drug dealers. One morning, parked near the place where Renata died, he sees an SUV careen out of control & flip over. The driver Leo is killed, but before his body is removed, Leme is sure he sees bullet wounds. Leo`s death wasn`t an accident, he was murdered. Soon, his girlfriend turns up dead too. & if they were killed deliberately, perhaps Renata was too.. . Leme finds himself immersed further & further in the dark underbelly of Brazilian society, as corruption seeps from the highest to the lowest echelons, & the devastating truth about Renata begins to emerge.
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This timely portrait of Lebanon exposes the fault lines that underlie the current crisis in the Middle East, & charts the country`s attempts to rebuild a fragile peace after its long civil war & recent conflict with Israel. Part reportage, part travel narrative, ” Paradise Divided” chronicles the delicate web of relationships that make up contemporary Lebanese society. Drawing on interviews with community leaders & relationships with ordinary people, it reveals a richly-textured social & religious fabric in which Sunni & Shia Muslims, Druze & Christians of all kinds, from Maronite Catholics to evangelical Protestants, strive to maintain a delicate balance. It offers an insight into how Lebanon`s religious communities, their identities formed by history, landscape & their relationships with one another, came to be what they are today
- & how their different perspectives can lead to potentially destructive tensions. What emerges is a quintessentially Middle Eastern form of coexistence, poised between tolerance & sectarianism
- a theme powerfully developed through the author`s privileged access to the normally secretive Druze. The reader follows the country`s changing fortunes after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the subsequent pro-democracy movement & withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanese soil. The final chapters examine the aftermath of Israel`s military campaign & the emergence of the new battle dividing Lebanese society as opposing camps struggle to have their vision for Lebanon made reality. ” Paradise Divided” opens a window onto a country little-visited by Westerners for decades, & one very different from the war-torn images of the Middle East that dominate our television screens. Offering a unique view of the struggle between sectarianism & tolerance, & the relationship between the Arab world & the West, it is a book which sheds light on some of the central issues of our time.

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A journey through some of the world`s most stunning gardens from Spain & Morocco to Turkey & India. An exploration of the beauty ...

This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people`s home in Leicestershire in the 1970s. The place is in chaos & it`s not really a suitable job for a schoolgirl: she`d only gone for the job because she wanted a new phase & it seemed too exhausting to commit to being a full-time girlfriend or a punk. Lizzie has some knowledge of old people (they`re not suited to granary bread, & you mustn`t compare them to toddlers) but she doesn`t know there`s a right way to get someone out of the bath, or what to do when someone dies. When a rival old people`s home with better parking & daily chairobics threatens to take all their patients, Paradise Lodge`s cast of staff & helpers, from the assertively shy Nurse who only communicates through little grunts to the son of the Chinese takeaway manager who`s renowned for his erotic handholding techniques, have to come together to save the home before it`s too late. From the bestselling author of Love, Nina comes a story of being very young, & very old, & the laughter, & the tears, in between. ...

This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people`s home in Leicestershire in the 1970s. The place is in chaos & it`s not really a suitable job for a schoolgirl: she`d only gone for the job because she wanted a new phase & it seemed too exhausting to commit to being a full-time girlfriend or a punk. Lizzie has some knowledge of old people (they`re not suited to granary bread, & you mustn`t compare them to toddlers) but she doesn`t know there`s a right way to get someone out of the bath, or what to do when someone dies. When a rival old people`s home with better parking & daily chairobics threatens to take all their patients, Paradise Lodge`s cast of staff & helpers, from the assertively shy Nurse who only communicates through little grunts to the son of the Chinese takeaway manager who`s renowned for his erotic handholding techniques, have to come together to save the home before it`s too late. From the bestselling author of Love, Nina comes a story of being very young, & very old, & the laughter, & the tears, in between. ...