Anne of Windy Willows (#4)

L. M. Montgomery

Anne of Windy Willows is the fourth book about the red-haired Anne Shirley from Green Gables. Now a young woman and her romance with Gilbert Blythe beginning to flourish, Anne Shirley becomes Principal of Summerside High School. But Summerside is virtually ruled by the Pringle family, who don't want Ann...

A History of Opera - The Last Four Hundred Years

Carolyn Abbate; Roger Parker

Abbate and Parker's A History of Opera is the first full new history of opera in sixty years - now in paperback in an updated second edition. "The best single volume ever written on the subject". (The Times Literary Supplement). Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Ab...

Detective Story

Imre Kertesz

"A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power". (Times Literary Supplement). Antonio Martens was an interrogator for the secret police of a recently fallen dictatorship. Now imprisoned, he begins to recount his involvement in the assassination of the high-profile Federigo Salinas and his...