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The Boy Who Kicked Pigs

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‘Grotesque and depraved and above all very funny.’ Ardal O’Hanlon Robert Caligari is a thoroughly evil thirteen-year-old who gets his kicks from kicking pigs. Afer a humiliating episode with a bacon butty, Robert realizes just how much he loathes the human race – and his revenge is truly terrible. This subversive horror-fantasy from Tom Baker (ex-monk, ex-sailor, and the ultimate Doctor Who) is outrageous and funny, and since the hardback was published in 1999 has gone on to become a cult classic. It is illustrated throughout with b/w line drawings from David Roberts.

Cod: 9780571230549

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My Beautiful Laundrette

admin — Mon, 25 May 2020 14:06:20 +0000

Described by Stuart Hall as “one of the most riveting and important films produced by a black writer in recent years,”My Beautiful Laundrette was a significant production for its director Stephen Frears and its writer Hanif Kureshi. Christine Geraghty considers it a crossover film: between television and cinema, realism and fantasy, and as an independent film targeting a popular audience. She deftly shows how it has remained an important and timely film in the 1990s and early 2000s, and her exploration of the film itself is an original and entertaining achievement.

Cod: 9780571202546

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God Lives in St. Petersburg

admin — Mon, 25 May 2020 14:03:49 +0000

This stunning fictional debut by a wildly talented young writer presents six stories about Americans colliding with remote and often perilous parts of the world: Two journalists, stranded in wartime Afghanistan, are taken in by a warlord who becomes the arbiter of their fates. A female scientist investigating the Aral Sea disaster is drawn into a trap by a former KGB officer. On a hike through Kazakhstan, Jayne and Douglas’s marriage unravels when their guide, a veteran of the Soviet-Afghanistan war, takes an unseemly interest in Jayne.

Cod: 9780571229345

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The Inner Life of Martin Frost

admin — Mon, 25 May 2020 14:03:26 +0000

Martin Frost sets out for a country house to write his novel away from the distractions of the city. Thinking that he is the sole occupant of the house, he is surprised and annoyed when he discovers a young woman in residence. She is similarly disturbed by his presence. They begin a passionate affair, which reaches an intriguing climax when he has to choose between his life and his art. Written and directed by Paul Auster, The Inner Life of Martin Frost shows him at his mesmerizing best, juggling fiction and reality. The film stars David Thewlis (from Mike Leigh’s Naked), Irene Jacob (The Double Life of Veronique), Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos), and Sophie Auster (Lulu on the Bridge), and joins Paul Auster’s other much-loved works of cinema, such as Smoke and Blue in the Face.

Cod: 9780571236930

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Europe: An Intimate Journey

admin — Mon, 25 May 2020 12:50:51 +0000

Europe has been widely acclaimed as among the finest achievements of ‘one of our greatest living writers’ (The Times). A personal appreciation, fuelled by five decades of journeying, this is Jan Morris at her best – at once magisterial and particular, whimsical and profound. It is a matchless portrait of a continent.

Cod: 9780571233120

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Antichrista

admin — Fri, 22 May 2020 08:38:09 +0000

When Blanche’s mother, who finds her own daughter rather colourless, bookish and dull, is also dazzled by Christa, she soon invites her to stay at the family house. Suddenly Christa can do no wrong and, as Blanche’s parents scour their address books for long-lost friends to invite to dinner to meet the newcomer, their friendship sours and Blanche’s already negligible self-confidence goes into a steep decline. With all the characteristics of Amelie Nothomb’s unique fictional landscapes, Antechrista is a funny, dark and revealing journey through female friendship and rivalry.

Cod: 9780571224838

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Days of Atonement

admin — Fri, 22 May 2020 08:38:08 +0000

Three children are massacred in their beds. The crushed corpse of their mother is discovered in a dockside warehouse. Hanno Stiffeniis, a Prussian magistrate, goes to investigate, but everything begins to unwind. Serge Lavedrine, a criminologist attached to the invading French army, steps in to resolve the mystery, and Stiffeniis is packed off to collect the husband from a remote fortress on the Russian border. But the husband, Bruno Gottewald, is dead and buried – killed while out on field manoeuvres. In less than a week the entire Gottewald family has been wiped off the face of the earth. A tragic coincidence? A military conspiracy involving Prussian troops? Or are the French using the massacre to expand their power?

Cod: 9780571229307

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