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In this fifth volume of Flashman's sensational memoirs, the spotlight is cast on the insurrection which was the watershed of the British Empire - the Indian Mutiny.

Christopher Isherwood is the narrator of Goodbye to Berlin. His story evokes the gathering storm in Berlin before and just after the rise to power of the Nazis, as seen through the eyes of a series of individuals.

The childlike Lennie is lost without his guardian, George, who feels his slow-witted friend has been delivered into his keeping. Bound by their fragile dream of owning land where they will 'belong', their paradisial future is soon shattered.

From the author of 'The Water is Wide' and 'Beach Music' comes this re-issue of 'The Prince of Tides', part of the Wingo family of South Carolina chronicle.

This is the third part of 'The Cairo Trilogy', by the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. It is an Egyptian family saga featuring the bullying, pompous patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmed and his long-suffering family. This book takes the family into the middle of the 20th century.

In these 11 intersecting stories, the author reveals the rich, complex pattern of life inside a Bombay apartment building.

Four different people are named in a will - Delia, an opera singer robbed of her voice by illness; George, an idealistic scientist; Marjorie, desperately poor & unable to dislodge her writer's block; & Lucius, whose personal life is in chaos. This is a tale of four strangers summoned to a grand b...

Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but 18 years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the gh...

Sophie Winters has always been a loving and giving child, who'd do anything for her family. Yet her father, Bill, has always seemed to resent her. For her mother's sake, Sophie learns to live with Bill's animosity, until the night he returns home drunk and forces himself upon her. She is left pre...

Barnaby Gaitlin is a loser. Just short of 30, he's the black sheep of a philanthropic Baltimore family with an ex-wife, a daughter with attitude, and an unreliable classic car. The author of Breathing Lessons looks at love and families.