Item category 2: City of Literature

Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and ill at ease, he spends his evenings surreptitiously observing Adèle Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at his local bistro. Then one day she vanishes into thin air.

In 'Discipline', her third collection, Jane Yeh depicts a haunting and hilarious variety of lives, from an endangered young rhinoceros to the denizens of the 1980s New York club scene. These multifaceted poems explore what identity isn't and is, as performance, as struggle, as change, as art with...

Anthony Burgess' epic work revolves around a writer, Kenneth Toomey, and the man he is linked to through family ties, Carlo Campanati, an Italian priest and a candidate for sainthood. Toomey, now in his eighties recalls the past.

Born into poverty, John Hamer Shawcross is arrogant and ambitious. Entering politics he becomes a cabinet minister, then Viscount Shawcross. Ann, his wife, loves her husband but will allow nothing to diminish her commitment to the Suffragette movement.

In the early days of World War II, the infamous German Luftwaffe embark upon an expedition to Antarctica's icy continent. Their mission ends in disaster - its frozen secrets lying forgotten for almost a century. When a former NUMA colleague mysteriously disappears, Kurt Austin and his assistant J...

Lydia and Bel have been best friends for years, from wild teenage days all the way through to motherhood. Bel becomes pregnant by accident and has a fraught relationship with daughter Freya, while Lydia and love-of-her-life Mac, after failed fertility treatment, choose to adopt. Gorgeous toddler ...