Swansong

Literature & Fiction

Richard, Francis

Contemporary

HarperCollins, Publishers

Prospect Hill

Fans of Jonathan Coe will love this extraordinary panoramic novel, which turns upon the whirligig of life that is Costford, a North Western town, in 1970. Costford, a brash north of England town. It's 1970 and young Trevor Morgan has a magical smile and large ambitions. But his marriage is in crisis, and he seeks help from an unexpected quarter: feisty middle-aged May Rollins. May is feeling the stress of living with the demented mother she has always hated. Strange things start happening: she spots a lollipop lady at eight o'clock on an August evening; her TV converts to colour of its own accord; and mother takes to wandering off, with murderous intent, when the minder, May's stepdaughter Cherry, is not looking. May and Trevor are political enemies, at odds over a controversial plan to build council flats at Prospect Hill, but their relationship takes a shocking - and ambiguous - twist. Meanwhile Art Whiteside, a predatory estate agent who believes in true love, complicates affairs on both town and home fronts. With dazzling ingenuity, Richard Francis catches the whirligig of urban life at the very moment when contemporary society was struggling into being. His comic and poignant novel conjures up the fumbled negotiations we make between our public and private lives, evoking the pain and pleasure of husbands, wives, and lovers, of parents and children - and depicting a personal and communal quest for the meaning of home.

Fourth Estate

André Du Ryer was an important and influential seventeenth-century orientalist and diplomat. After reconstructing his diplomatic career, the authors assess Du Ryer's contribution to Turkish and Persian studies, his influential translation of the Quran, and his manuscript collection. He emerges as an important and influential figure whose significance has never previously been appreciated.

Andre Du Ryer and Oriental Studies in Seventeenth-Century France (Studies in the Arcadian Library)

Hamilton, Alastair

Biographies & Memoirs

The Arcadian Library

Daggerman

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

AVON.

Upliment

History

BiblioLife

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Jehovah Goodbye: the "New Theism" of Love (Paperback) by Richard Shining Thunder Francis (Author)

Jehovah Goodbye: the "New Theism" of Love

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Bookman

CINQ POEMES DE NEZAMI (LES)

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