To the cool of the hills at Simla comes a reluctant Dr. McNab, with his wife and young niece. For Emily, romance is in the air. For the mysterious Mrs Forester, there is scandal brewing. And for the Bishop of Simla, rainclouds are not the only storms on the horizon. This incomplete novel underlines the tragedy of J.G. Farrell's untimely death. 'This is a must.'YORKSHIRE POST'Completely fresh, fully imagined, truthful in spirit.'SUNDAY TIMES'This remarkable novel... captivating from page one.'JOHN OSBORNE, EVENING STANDARDJ.G. FARRELL'One of the outstanding novelists of his generation.'SPECTATOR'What a striking loss he is to the craft he pursued.'JOHN OSBORNE, EVENING STANDARD'He treads the borderline between tragedy and farce with amazing skill.'SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'His death is a great loss to literature.'PUNCH

The Hill Station and An Indian Diary: An Unfinished Novel

Literature & Fiction

FARRELL, J.G.

Spurling, John

Contemporary

HarperCollins, Publishers

The Siege of Krishnapur

Genre Fiction

Penguin

Set against the backdrop of growing tensions in Ireland in 1919, Troubles, written in 1970, is the first novel in J.G. Farrell's "Empire Trilogy". "Troubles" is set on the east coast of Ireland, largely in the Hotel Majestic, a formerly grand building that has seen better days and now generally houses more cats than guests. The listener is taken back to July 1919, when the 'Major' is visiting the Majestic to reunite with his fiancee Angela, the Protestant proprietor Edward Spencer's daughter. The lovers met in Brighton during the War and have since only corresponded long-distance. The welcome he receives is not quite what he expected. He quickly becomes sucked into the political and sociological ethos of the hotel and its inhabitants, and the story builds tantalisingly until its inevitable dramatic conclusion. A touching, often very funny and yet ultimately rather sad story, which will capture the listener's heart and excite their interest with its themes of Irish politics and love, played out in an unlikely and fragile sanctuary. The reader Sean Barrett is an Irish-born actor who has enjoyed success in the theatre, on television and in film.

Troubles

Irish Book Center

Victorian life in India -- the clash between two great civilizations, a cauldron of human drama--was perhaps the most deeply romantic expression of life in all the modern age. We are forever fascinated.
This award-winning novel concerns the events surrounding the Sepoy uprising of 1857. A young Englishman becomes an unlikely hero when he finds himself at the center of a political whirlwind. By turns caustic and compassionate, written with sardonic wit but displaying a passionate sympathy, this novel of splendid characters and emotionally charged events fully deserves its reputation as a masterpiece.%

Harcourt

The siege of Krishnapur;

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Fair, A good, clean and sound copy in red cloth boards with dustjacket. Dust jacket is torn with wear around all the edges.

The Singapore grip

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Boxed - box as new.

Folio Society

Two stunning, Booker Prize-winning historical novels that vividly chronicle the crumbling edges of the British Empire in India and Ireland--in one Contemporary Classics hardcover. Inspired by historical events, The Siege of Krishnapur is the mesmerizing tale of a British outpost, under siege during the Indian Mutiny of 1857, whose residents find their smug assumptions of moral and military superiority and their rigid class barriers under fire—literally and figuratively. The hero of Troubles, having survived the battles of World War I, makes his way to Ireland in 1919, in search of his once-wealthy fiancée. What he finds is her family's enormous seaside hotel in a spectacular state of decline, overgrown and overrun by herds of cats and pigs and the few remaining guests. From this strange perch, moving from room to room as the hotel falls down around him, he witnesses the distant tottering of the Empire in the East and the rise of the violent "Troubles" in Ireland.

The Siege of Krishnapur, Troubles: Introduction by John Sutherland (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

Literary

Everyman"s Library

The Singapore Grip

Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere else. His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended match, the son of Blackett's partner, is an idealistic sympathizer with the League of Nations and a vegetarian. Business may be booming—what with the war in Europe, the Allies are desperate for rubber and helpless to resist Blackett's price-fixing and market manipulation—but something is wrong. No one suspects that the world of the British Empire, of fixed boundaries between classes and nations, is about to come to a terrible end.
A love story and a war story, a tragicomic tale of a city under siege and a dying way of life, The Singapore Grip completes the “Empire Trilogy” that began with Troubles and the Booker prize-winning Siege of Krishnapur.

KNOPF

Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere else. His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended match, the son of Blackett's partner, is an idealistic sympathizer with the League of Nations and a vegetarian. Business may be boomingâwhat with the war in Europe, the Allies are desperate for rubber and helpless to resist Blackett's price-fixing and market manipulationâbut something is wrong. No one suspects that the world of the British Empire, of fixed boundaries between classes and nations, is about to come to a terrible end.
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A love story and a war story, a tragicomic tale of a city under siege and a dying way of life, The Singapore Grip completes the “Empire Trilogy” that began with Troubles and the Booker prize-winning Siege of Krishnapur.

Berkley Books

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The Hill Station and An Indian Diary: An Unfinished Novel

The Siege of Krishnapur

Troubles

The Siege of Krishnapur

The siege of Krishnapur;

The Singapore grip

The Siege of Krishnapur

The Siege of Krishnapur, Troubles: Introduction by John Sutherland (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

The Singapore grip

The Singapore Grip