Explores how gospel singer Arthur Montana discovers his love for Jimmy and portrays how profoundly racial politics can shape the private business of love.

Includes four stories that illuminate the author's love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape.

A comprehensive selection of Kavanagh's poetry. It includes selection that range from initial offerings such as Tinker's Wife and Inniskeen Road: July Evening to his tragic masterpiece The Great Hunger (1942) and celebratory verse, To Hell with Common Sense and Come Dance with Kitty Stobling.

Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood and rising to the rank of International Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passion for chess. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster Turati, he brings into play his carefully devised defence.

Is it possible to die a happy death? This title tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenting with different ways of life and finally dying a happy man.

Told with Amis's piercing wit and humanity, 'Ending Up' is a wickedly funny black comedy of the indignities of old age.

Taking the reader on a journey around Paris' secret stairways, courtyards, alleys and hidden places, this title offers a meditation on getting lost and wasting time, and on what it truly means to know a city.

Edmund Campion (1540-1581) was a Jesuit priest who, in the turbulent years before the Spanish Armada, was charged with treason and executed. Waugh's book is an elegant homage to a man he revered as a hero and a martyr.