A biting satire about a young man`s isolated upbringing & the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. Born in Dickens on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his father`s racially charged psychological studies. He is told that his father’s work will lead to a memoir that will solve their financial woes. But when his father is killed in a drive-by shooting, he discovers there never was a memoir. All that’s left is a bill for a drive-through funeral. What’s more, Dickens has literally been wiped off the map to save California from further embarrassment. Fuelled by despair, the narrator sets out to right this wrong with the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery & segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court. In his trademark absurdist style, which has the uncanny ability to make readers want to both laugh & cry, The Sellout is an outrageous & outrageously entertaining indictment of our time. ...

The Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania is Africa`s oldest & largest protected area. Proclaimed in 1896 & bigger than Switzerl&, the Selous is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Selous remains one of Africa`s largest & greatest undisturbed ecosystems, teeming with life including one of the two largest elephant populations remaining on the African continent, probably half of all of the wild dogs in Africa, vast herds of buffalo as well as more lions than any other protected area on the continent as reported by National Geographic in August 2013. The game reserve is becoming more important by the day as the pressure on elephants & other species grows
- problems that are addressed here in this book. New York-born photographer Rob Ross has spent much of the past four years photographing in this vast & difficult to access reserve. He has compiled more than 100, 000 images showing all aspects of the reserves varied landscapes, seasons, flora & large & small fauna. The spectacular large-format photography book features a selection of the very best images including landscapes, wildlife portraits & behaviour, night photography, impressionist style work & breath-taking aerials.
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A vodka-soaked tragicomedy of bribes, backhanders & a certain ex-president of Russia going catastrophically awry. Former Russian president, Vladimir P, is going senile, marooned in a world of memories from his years in power. To get him out of the way, he has been exiled to his luxury dacha, where he is served by a coterie of bickering house staff. Only Sheremetev, the guileless nurse charged with Vladimir`s round-the-clock care, is unaware that everyone else is busily using every means at their disposal to skim money from their employer`s inexhaustible riches. But when the nurse suddenly needs to find cash for a bribe or see his nephew rot in jail, the dacha`s chef lets him in on the secret world of `commissions` going on all around him. Yet surely Sheremetev wouldn`t think to steal from his ailing patient? & surely, in the upstanding modern Russia that Vladimir P created, no one would actually let him... ...

As a former president of Russia loses his marbles, those around him get down to losing their morals. Former Russian president, Vladimir P, is going senile, marooned in a world of memories from his years in power. To get him out of the way, he has been exiled to his luxury dacha, where he is served by a coterie of bickering house staff. Only Sheremetev, the guileless nurse charged with Vladimir`s round-the-clock care, is unaware that everyone else is busily using every means at their disposal to skim money from their employer`s inexhaustible riches. But when the nurse suddenly needs to find cash for a bribe or see his nephew rot in jail, the dacha`s chef lets him in on the secret world of `commissions` going on all around him. Yet surely Sheremetev wouldn`t think to steal from his ailing patient? & surely, in the upstanding modern Russia that Vladimir P created, no one would actually let him... ...

Pietro arrives in Milan with a battered suitcase full of memories, to take up a new job as concierge. Living in his palazzo are lost & eccentric souls: Poppi, a lawyer; Luciana & her son; & Luca, a doctor, whose wife Viola holds a secret that could destroy their marriage. Right from the start Pietro has a special interest in Luca & his family, & soon he`s letting himself into their apartment while everyone is out. As his story emerges in snatches & flashbacks, each prompted by his case of treasures, we begin to find out what has brought him to be guardian here, so late in his life.. . For readers of The Elegance of the Hedgehog & The Yacoubian Building, this is an atmospheric & unforgettable novel about the ties that bind. ...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 Tony Webster & his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry & book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour & wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle age. He`s had a career & a single marriage, a calm divorce. He`s certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer`s letter is about to prove. The Sense of an Ending is the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past. Laced with trademark precision, dexterity & insight, it is the work of one of the world`s most distinguished writers. ...

Now a major film starring Academy Award nominees Jim Broadbent (Iris) & Charlotte Rampling (45 Years) Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 Tony Webster & his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry & book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour & wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He`s had a career & a single marriage, a calm divorce. He`s certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer`s letter is about to prove. ...

Haunted by the horrific events he witnessed during the Vietnam War, Napoleon Haskell is exhausted from years spent battling his memories. As his health ultimately declines, his two daughters move him from his trailer in North Dakota to Casablanca, Ontario, to live with the father of a friend who was killed in action. It is to Casablanca, on the shores of a man-made lake beneath which lie the remains of the former town, that Napoleon`s youngest daughter also retreats when her own life comes unhinged. Living with the two old men, she finds her father in the twilight of his life & rapidly slipping into senility. With love & insatiable curiosity, she devotes herself to learning the truth about him; & through the fog, Napoleon`s past begins to emerge. ...

1936, Badajoz: His unit defeated, his ammunition spent, a boy-soldier flees into the hills pursued by Franco`s shock-troops. He will need more than luck to survive the day. 1953, Madrid: Amid snow-bound streets, the head of Franco`s secret police discovers the web of lies burying his past is unravelling. Even for a man feared throughout the city, the truth is a death sentence. 2009, Las Penas: Forensic Investigator Ana Maria Galindez unearths a mass grave in a disused mine. Her investigation will disturb forces that have lain dormant for decades. THE SENTINEL is a spellbinding thriller in a trilogy of rare power & scope that unlocks the dark heart of Spain, weaving past & present together to portray a country still scarred by civil war, still riven by fear & hatred, still plagued by secrets that refuse to die. ...

The Separation, Dinah Jefferies` stunning debut novel, is the heartbreaking tale of a family fractured by lies & one mother`s ...