A Place of Her Own

Deborah O'Brien

A compelling novel of starting over from the author of Mr Chen's Emporium. Eighteen months ago Angie Wallace thought her world had ended. Now she's fighting off suitors - and facing a crisis she never saw coming ...'Unrequited love hurt like hell - whether you were fifteen or fifty-something.' Following...

Doctor Faustus

Thomas Mann; H. T. Lowe-Porter (Translator)

Adrian Leverk hn is a young man destined for success. He is a composer - creative and brilliant, but he will stop at nothing to achieve greatness. Intentionally contracting syphilis in order to deepen his creative potential through madness, Adrian makes his pact with nature. Mann?s interpretation of the...

The Memorial Feast for Kokotoy Khan - A Kirghiz Epic Poem in the Manas Tradition

Saghïmbay Orozbaq uulu; Daniel Prior (Translator)

An ancient Central Asian epic, passed down through generations, carries the reader into a world of nomads, warriors and horselords   A Penguin Classic   This tale from the Manas epic gives the reader startling, brilliantly colored access to the world of the horse-based nomad cultures of Central Asia...