This story opens when Karl is an adolescent in Vienna between the wars. He is handsome, intelligent, popular and has every advantage. But all is not what it seems in a situation full of political tensions and erotic undercurrents. Entranced by his own reflection, he basks in the light and sees his life changing irrevocably.

False Light

Literature & Fiction

Sheldon, Peter

Genre Fiction

Arcadia Books Ltd

Fifth collection of erotic and hard-hitting poetry.

Double Act

Pitt-Kethley, Fiona

Poetry

A powerful three-generational saga of a Sri Lankan family's search for coherence and continuity in a country broken by colonial occupation and riven by ethnic wars. Winner of the Sagittarius Prize. Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize

When Memory Dies

Sivanandan, A.

Literary

The sex researcher describes her childhood in Missouri, her involvement in the feminist movement, her sexual identity, and her research.

Hite Report on Shere Hite: Voice of a Daughter in Exile

Biographies & Memoirs

HITE, SHERE

Reference & Collections

Night Letters

Dessaix, Robert

As she follows her never-changing itinerary on vacation, Elisabeth has no reason to suspect that this year will be different from the others.

Tomorrow

Taylor, Elizabeth Russell

Paints an unrivalled portrait of the vanished world of pre-1914 Hungary, as seen through the eyes of two young aristocratic Transylvanian cousins.

They Were Counted (The Writing on the Wall (Erdelyi Tortenet) the Transylvanian Trilogy, Book 1)

Bánffy, Miklós

A young man flees Athens, trying to escape from drink and a number of failed relationships moving from Paros and Munich to London and a mountain village in central Greece, he meets a young woman and it becomes clear that the greatest magic is to be found in reality, not the bottle.

The Seventh Elephant

Stamatis, Alexis

Contemporary

Love and solitude seem like irreconcilable opposites to Norman, a young American. His love affairs in Tangier with two older women end with the death of one and the disappearance of the other, sending him to the Sahara, alone on the edge of time ...

All I Wanted Was Company

HOPKINS, John

In his funniest novel to date, John Haylock shifts his locale to 1960s Tangier. The setting is the Hotel Ritz, a run-down establishment peopled by a menagerie of eccentric expats.

Body of Contention

Haylock, John

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