” Dark Back of Time” is a compelling story of the way in which reality blurs into fiction by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel ” The Infatuations” is published in 2013. It is translated by Esther Allen in ” Penguin Modern Classics”. ` We lose everything because everything remains except us`, says the mysterious narrator of this extraordinary novel, which meditates on the transience, chance & fragility of life. As a man called Javier Marias recalls the strange events & people that shaped his past, including ghostly literary figures, a pilot, an adventurer, a brother who died as a child & the king of an island in the Caribbean, we begin to question the nature of time, memory & reality itself. Here the writer is both a keeper of memories & a purveyor of illusions, destined to be lost in the dark back of time. Javier Marias was born in Madrid in 1951. He has published ten novels, two collections of short stories & several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into thirty-two languages & won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for ”A Heart So White”. He is also a highly practised translator into Spanish of English authors, including Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Thomas Browne & Laurence Sterne. ”I was enthralled by his strange mix of made-up memories, lost experiences & real-life fantasies.” (Marina Warner, ” Guardian”). ” He uses language like an anatomist uses a scalpel to lay bare the innermost secrets of that strangest of species, the human being.” (W. G. Sebald, author of ” Austerlitz”). ...

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When Carl sells a box of slimming pills to his close friend Stacey, inadvertently causing her death, he sets in train a sequence of catastrophic events which begin with subterfuge, extend to lies, & culminate in murder. In Rendell`s dark & atmospheric tale of psychological suspense, we encounter mistaken identity, kidnap, blackmail, & a cast of characters who are so real that we come to know them better than we know ourselves. Infused with her distinctive blend of wry humour, acute observation & deep humanity, this is Rendell at her most memorable & best. ...

Intrigue, prestige, debauchery: Dark Diversions by acclaimed author John Ralston Saul is a black comedy of international proportions. From aristocrats & the privileged circles of New York & Paris to military dictators & the political infighting, double-dealing & corruption or their regimes in Morocco & Haiti, welcome to the world where money & power reside. Through a series of encounters with its inhabitants, at once beguiling & grotesque, our investigative narrator uncovers bizarrre & disturbing stories of secret lovers, exiled princesses, religious heresies & murder. But as he becomes further enmeshed in this savage realm, his ambiguous status becomes increasingly unsettling: is he the impartial observer of priviliged foibles & fundamental inequity he appears to be? Or is he, perhaps, an embodiment of the dark diversions he chronicles? Laced with scathing wit, Dark Diversions is a novel that inveigles its reader on a picaresque journey of depravity. ”A delightful novel, invigoratingly wicked”. (Le Monde). ” Saul has the eye, the aloofness, the killer turn of phrase of a Truman Capote”. (Le Figaro). John Ralston Saul is Canada`s leading public intellectual. Declared a `prophet` by Time magazine, Saul has received many awards & prizes, including Chile`s Pablo Neruda Medal. He is president of PEN International, & his thirteen works have been translated into twenty-two languages in thirty countries. Dark Diversions is his sixth novel. ...

Patagonia is one of the `final frontiers` on our planet: remote, untamed & much of it inaccessible except on horseback. Though travelled before & sporadically settled, it remains remarkably resistant to human trampling. Divided unequally between Argentina & Chile, Patagonia remains a land of mystery today. The history of those who settled in the nineteenth & twentieth centuries along its Andean frontier is even less known. They are the `dark horses` of this book. Jon Burrough rode with his gaucho guide for 1, 500 kilometres through this land of savage beauty. Dark Horses at the Patagonian Frontier evokes the rawness of the region using extracts from diaries, personal interviews, tales told or recorded, myths & legends--all wound round the narrative thread. Part travel record of a `third-ager` on horseback (who was to discover he had cancer ten days out) & part history of this truly wild region, the book explores the landscapes & legacy of a pioneer culture. Illustrated with the author`s own photographs, it also contains several detailed route & location maps to ensure the reader does not get lost. Dark Horses at the Patagonian Frontier is a tale both of the author`s epic journey & of the remarkable pioneers he met & who showed him a hospitality & friendliness which seemed to have no limit. ...

Dark Journey is the disturbing, fast-paced story of a young Turkish woman`s descent towards moral annihilation
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January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely & desperate to change his life. So when he's offered the chance to be the wireless operator on an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men & eight huskies, crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight sun. At last they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year. Gruhuken. But the Arctic summer is brief. As night returns to claim the l&, Jack feels a creeping unease. One by one, his companions are forced to leave. He faces a stark choice. Stay or go. Soon he will see the last of the sun, as the polar night engulfs the camp in months of darkness. Soon he will reach the point of no return
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66 million years ago, a ten-mile-wide object from outer space hurtled into the Earth at incredible speed & destroyed the dinosaurs, along with three-quarters of the other species on the planet. Where did it come from, & why? & how is this connected to dark matter
- the most mysterious, elusive stuff in the universe, that interacts with gravity like ordinary matter but doesn`t emit or absorb light. Astronomers know it`s there but it is literally invisible. Dark Matter & the Dinosaurs tells the story of Big Bang theory, cosmological inflation, the makeup of the universe & our solar system`s place in it; it`s about mass extinctions through the ages, what we know has hit the Earth & what might hit us in the future. & it explores the radical idea that dark matter might ultimately have been responsible for the dinosaurs` extinction. This is a horizon-expanding tour of the cosmos that blends what we know about the universe with new thinking, Dark Matter & the Dinosaurs is a book full of wonders, from a gifted scientist & writer.
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Barton Gellman`s informant called himself ` Verax`
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