Birdy

An extraordinary story of war and friendship from one of America’s most revered authors of the 20th Century.
Two teenagers form an unlikely friendship in pre-War Philadelphia. Al is obsessed with lifting weights, looking good and chasing girls. Birdy is obsessed with flight.
Birdy’s passion becomes all-encompassing. Birdy wants to fly.
A few years later these young men find themselves emotionally and physically scarred by Word War Two. Al is called to an army psychiatric hospital to help the doctors there treat his friend, who he finds squatting on the floor of his cell and acting like a bird.
This haunting and brilliant novel has electrified readers the world over. It has truly become a modern classic.
In 1984, Birdy was turned into an award-winning movie directed by Alan Parker and starring Nicholas Cage and Matthew Modine.

Literature & Fiction

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Contemporary

The Friday Project

Vintage

A Midnight Clear

Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random

Pride

Dick Kettleson, his son Dickie, Stu Modig, and a lion taken from his family live lives to which the word "pride" is intrinsic, and finally touch each other in a way that changes each permanently

British & Irish

King Penguin Penguin Books

John Tremont, a middle-aged man with a family, is summoned to his mother's bedside after she has suffered a heart attack. When he arrives, he finds her shaken but surviving; it is his father, left alone, who is unable to cope, who begins to fail, to slip away from life. Joined by his nineteen-year-old son, John suddenly becomes enmeshed in the frightening, consuming, endless minutiae of caring for a beloved, dying parent. He also finds himself inescapably confronting his own middle age, jammed between his son's feckless impatience to get on with his life and his father's heartbreaking willingness to let go. A story of the love that binds generations, Dad celebrates the universe of possibilities within every individual life.

Penguin??Books

Last Lovers

Penguin Books / Granta

In August 1988 the family of William Wharton's daughter were burnt in their car. This is their story, told like a novel in four parts. Part One is told by the daughter, Part Two by her husband, Part Three by William Wharton. The fourth part tells of Wharton's struggle to see justice done.

Wrongful Deaths

Biographies & Memoirs

Jonathan Cape, 1979

JONATHAN CAPE.

Will, a philosophy teacher at the American College in France, his wife, Lor, and their four grown children prepare to celebrate what promises to be their last Christmas together as a family

Tidings

Sceptre

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