Dionisio Vivo, a young South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisio's letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, must stop; and although Dionisio manages to escape the hit-men sent to get him, he soon realizes that others are more vulnerable, and his love for them leads him to take a colossal revenge. "Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord" is the second novel in a trilogy set in South America. It won a...
Dionisio Vivo, a young South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front doo...
Of Love and Desire is a rich collection of love poems from Louis de Bernieres, written over a lifetime, and capturing its many forms from rapture, infatuation, urgency, to sorrow, heartache and disillusion. Poetry was de Bernieres first and greatest literary love, a passion evident in the musicality and emotion of his poems, which are full of stories and the truth of lived experience. This, his second collection, bears the mark of many influences, from the classical Persian poets, to Neruda, to Quintus Smyrnaeus, to Brian Patten. Beautifully illustrated by Donald Sammut, this is an...
Of Love and Desire is a rich collection of love poems from Louis de Bernieres, written over a lifetime, and capturing its many forms from ra...
In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent. But their days of childhood adventure are shadowed by the approach of the conflict. Can she, and her sisters, build new lives out of the opportunities and devastations that follow the Great War?
In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent. But...
'The kind of book that changes readers for the better' GuardianWhen a family tragedy means Mick is sent to the outback to live with his Granpa, it looks as if he has a lonely life ahead of him.
'The kind of book that changes readers for the better' GuardianWhen a family tragedy means Mick is sent to the outback to live with his Granpa, it loo...
FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CAPTAIN CORELLIS MANDOLIN
At the dawn of the 1920s, Rosie and Daniel move to Ceylon with their small daughter to start a new life, attempting to put the trauma of the First World War – and its effects on their marriage – behind them.
Back in England, Rosies sisters are dealing with impossible challenges in their searches for family, purpose and happiness. These are precarious times, and they find themselves taking unconventional means to achieve what they want. Around them the world changes, and events in Germany take a dark and...
FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CAPTAIN CORELLIS MANDOLIN
At the dawn of the 1920s, Rosie and Daniel move to Ceylon with th...
Rona Munro's adaptation of Louis de Bernieres' much-loved epic novel. Kefalonia, 1941. Captain Corelli, an enigmatic young Italian officer, is posted to the idyllic Greek island as part of the Axis occupying forces. Shunned by the locals at first, he proves to be civilised, humorous - and a consummate musician.
Rona Munro's adaptation of Louis de Bernieres' much-loved epic novel. Kefalonia, 1941. Captain Corelli, an enigmatic young Italian officer, is posted ...
Beautifully illustrated, it is the perfect gift.One day in autumn, in the days when all the trains were driven by steam, a railway guard found something abandoned on a train... Mr Ginger Leghorn is used to collecting up umbrellas and other lost property but he's never found an abandoned puppy on his train before.
Beautifully illustrated, it is the perfect gift.One day in autumn, in the days when all the trains were driven by steam, a railway guard found somethi...
