The Woman Who Was God

Literature & Fiction

KING, FRANCIS

Contemporary

HarperCollins, Publishers

Set in 1948, in a post-war Germany of demoralization and bankruptcy, this novel describes a crucial few weeks in the life of a young medical student, Michael, who examines both his own conscience and the mentality of the young Germans he meets, particularly the attractive and repellent Jurgen.

Punishments

A mix-up over his name led to unknown writer Amos Kingley's election to the presidency of the World Association of Authors. He soon runs into trouble, however, when the annual WAA congress erupts at the issue of the imprisonment of three Malindian writers. By the author of "Punishments".

Visiting Cards

Literary

Flamingo

Danny Hill: memoirs of a prominent gentleman

Genre Fiction

Hutchinson

Act of darkness

Was it simply, in the coroner's words, a stupid and tragic accident? Sybil Crawford would never have expected her brother, Hugo, to die like that, so suddenly, in a fall from the balcony of a Brighton hotel. The handsome, intelligent headmistress of a girls' school on the south coast, Sybil is not alone in desperately wanting 'but two hours converse with the dead'. Lavinia Trent, the well-known actress, and Bridget Nagel, whose journalist husband was killed in the Falklands, are equally ready to enter the bizarre, comic, unnerving world of paranormal experiment. 'Gripping entertainment from start to finish' Listener 'False trail follows false trail; the curtain is tantalizingly lifted and then, again, lowered' ... King is now writing at the height of his powers' Spectator 'His most masterful, comic and moving novel yet' Financial Times

Voices in an Empty Room

Little, Brown, and Co.

Three novelists, each from a different generation and with a substantial following of his own, have contributed a novella to this volume. All three stories focus on the shadowy side of their characters' lives. The theme of secret lives, hidden and unknown to others, runs throughout the text.

Secret Lives: Three Novellas

Wakefield, Tom

GALE, Patrick

Constable and Company Ltd.

Yesterday came suddenly: An autobiography

Biographies & Memoirs

Constable

Steve has embarked on his journey of a lifetime. Having left the Sydney slum in which he grew up, he's backpacking around Europe. But his meeting with the ageing writer Prince Stefano Torre della Aquila will change him forever.

Dead Letters

1st Arrow edition paperback vg++ condition. In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

the Man on the Rock

LGBTQ+ Books

Arrow Bks.

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