The President tells the story of a ruthless dictator & his schemes to dispose of a political adversary in an unnamed country usually identified as Guatemala. Drawing on his experience as a journalist writing under repressive conditions, Miguel Angel Asturias provides a blazing indictment of totalitarian government & its damaging psychological effects on society
- from the harvest of terror to cowardice, to sycophancy, to treachery & intrigue, & the total sacrifice of human values to lust for power. Written in a language of freedom & originality, full of extraordinary symbolism, biting satire, poetry & dream sequences, with an imagination that is both lyrical & ferocious, The President is a surrealist masterpiece & one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.
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Stately elegance all wrapped up in a 50cm (20) globe. Often referred to as the Junior Diplomat, a delicately carved, solid wood floor st&, & solid brass engraved meridian enrich & support the handsome globe. Featuring touch-on light control & a hand covered antique-style map with ornate cartouche & compass rose embellishments, this globe extends an air of grace & refinement to its surroundings. ...

` The dream team delivers big time.. . Clinton`s insider secrets & Patterson`s storytelling genius make this the political thriller of the decade.`
- Lee Child The President is Missing. The world is in shock. But the reason he`s missing is much worse than anyone can imagine. With details only a President could know, & the kind of suspense only James Patterson can deliver.`A bullet train of a thriller. The Day of the Jackal for the twenty-first century.`
- A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window` This book moves like Air Force One. Big & fast.`
- Michael Connelly, author of the Harry Bosch series` The President Is Missing is a big, splashy juggernaut of a novel, combining thrills with a truly authentic look at the inner happenings in Washington. I read it in one gulp. You will too.`
- Harlan Coben, 1 bestselling author of Don`t Let Go` Yes, The President is Missing is fiction
- it`s a thriller
- but James Patterson & I have come up with three of the most frightening days in the history of the presidency. & it could really happen... These days, the seemingly impossible can happen. & it happens so fast. I believe that readers will not soon forget President Jonathan Duncan & his story.`
- Bill Clinton ` Needless to say, we had some great conversations about the presidency, what life in Washington is really like, & about the state of America & the rest of the world.`
- James Patterson `I felt like I was right along with the characters for the shocking twists & turns you`ll never guess are coming. Patterson & Clinton have created a truly unique character in their `missing` President. The President is Missing puts the listener inside the White House & inside the mind of a President grappling with extraordinary circumstances.`
- Dennis Quaid on the audiobook of The President is Missing








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One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite-Runner in Saddam Hussein`s Iraq ”A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one sitting” Hassan Blasim, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Iraqi Christ On the third day of Ramadan, the village wakes to find the severed heads of nine of its sons stacked in banana crates by the bus stop. One of them belonged to one of the most wanted men in Iraq, known to his friends as Ibrahim the Fated. How did this good & humble man earn the enmity of so many? What did he do to deserve such a death? The answer lies in his lifelong friendship with Abdullah Kafka & Tariq the Befuddled, who each have their own remarkable stories to tell. It lies on the scarred, irradiated battlefields of the Gulf War & in the ashes of a revolution strangled in its cradle. It lies in the steadfast love of his wife & the festering scorn of his daughter. &, above all, it lies behind the locked gates of The President`s Gardens, buried alongside the countless victims of a pitiless reign of terror. Translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren ...

One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner in Saddam Hussein`s Iraq. ”A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one sitting”. Hassan Blasim, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Iraqi Christ. On the third day of Ramadan, the village wakes to find the severed heads of nine of its sons stacked in banana crates by the bus stop. One of them belonged to one of the most wanted men in Iraq, known to his friends as Ibrahim the Fated. How did this good & humble man earn the enmity of so many? What did he do to deserve such a death? The answer lies in his lifelong friendship with Abdullah Kafka & Tariq the Befuddled, who each have their own remarkable stories to tell. It lies on the scarred, irradiated battlefields of the Gulf War & in the ashes of a revolution strangled in its cradle. It lies in the steadfast love of his wife & the festering scorn of his daughter.&, above all, it lies behind the locked gates of The President`s Gardens, buried alongside the countless victims of a pitiless reign of terror. Translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren ...

Moscow, 2013. Bunin, the Ukrainian President, has joined other heads of state in an open air swimming pool to drink vodka & celebrate with Putin. During his rise to power Bunin has juggled with formidable & eccentric political & personal challenges. His troubles with his family & his women combine with his difficulties with corrupt businessmen & demanding international allies, but it is his recent heart transplant that worries him most. Since the operation he has started to develop freckles, & his heart donor`s mysterious widow seems to have moved in with him... Spanning forty years, The President`s Last Love is a hilarious satire on love, lies & life before & after the Iron Curtain. ...

In 1177, Pope Alexander III wrote a letter to the legendary Priest-King of the Indies, Prester John. As his emissary he chose his physician Master Philip. No one knew where the elusive monarch`s kingdom lay (or whether he even existed), but Master Philip was undeterred & set out from Rome...and was never heard of again. Centuries later Nick Jubber found a copy of the Pope`s letter & conceived a plan: to complete Master Philip`s mission & deliver the letter, albeit eight hundred & twenty four years late. Crammed full of arcane history & learned trivia, both ancient & modern, ” The Prester Quest” is the author`s colourful account of a remarkable journey that began in Italy, encompassed the Middle East & ended in Ethiopia, at the subterranean tomb of a medieval king. Combining a young man`s enthusiasm with an historian`s understanding of time & place & a traveller`s eye for the people & places he meets on the way, it`s an ebullient, extremely readable (and somewhat eccentric) account of an extraordinary adventure. ...

” An atmospheric, blood-drenched dark fantasy for a cold & stormy night.” Kirkus Reviews From the author of The Strange & Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender comes a haunting tale of magic & murder. When Rona Blackburn landed on Anathema Island more than a century ago, her otherworldly skills might have benefited friendlier neighbors. Instead, guilt & fear led the island`s original eight settlers to burn ”the witch” out of her home. So Rona invoked the privileges of a witch; she cursed them. But such a spell always comes with a terrible price, & in punishing the island`s residents, Rona also bound her family ever tighter to them. Fast-forward to the present day & all Nor Blackburn wants is to live an unremarkable teenage life. & she has reason to hope that she may have escaped the thorny side-effects of the family matriach`s curse. But then a mysterious book comes out, promising to cast any spell for the right price. The author
- Nor`s own mother
- seems capable of performing magic that should be far beyond her capabilities. & such magic always requires a sacrifice.A storm is coming. It`s coming for Nor.

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Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz explains why we are experiencing such destructively high levels of inequality
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` In the same way as there`s a partner for every person, there`s a place. All you have to do is find the one that`s yours among the billions that belong to someone else, you have to be awake, you have to choose.` With this conviction in mind, acclaimed Swedish writer Bodil Malmsten abandons her native country at the age of fifty-five & settles in Brittany. At the heart of this memoir is the conviction that the happiness to be found in Finistere will not allow itself to be, cannot be, expressed in writing. Embroidered around this seeming paradox are poignant, outraged & thought-provoking observations on the widest range of subjects: how not to buy plants, the elicit pleasures of bargain-hunting, the misery of writer`s block, social democracy, racism, tulipomania, the stubbornness of bank managers, the controlling of moles & slugs, death, political hypocrisy, the delights of wild weather. Malmsten`s passion & humour shine through every episode she describes, however minor, offering the reader a window onto a solitary life at once touching, thought-provoking &, occasionally, hilarious. ...