Rushing To Paradise

Literature & Fiction

BALLARD,J.G.

Contemporary

Flamingo/ HarperCollins

A superb creation of love, life and class in the post-war world. When Herbert Thurgarton-Strang was seven, his parents took him away from India and left him in a boarding school in England which had everything to recommend it except pity. Through the stifling, alarming years which follow, Herbert is held together by the notion of revenge on those loving parents, and by the knowledge that, over there, a new world beckons. And when he's seventeen, he steals away from school, steals away from Herbert, becomes a different boy; becomes, in Nottingham, Bert the lathe-worker, Bert the womaniser, Bert the soldier, Bert the sometime bruiser. Plunged into the louche life, he bobs like a cork, but eventually Bert/Herbert does lay his demons to rest.

The Broken Chariot

ALAN SILLITOE

Polaroids from the Dead

Coupland, Douglas

Essays & Correspondence

The Point: Stories

D'Ambrosio, Charles

Short Stories & Anthologies

A novel by Martin Amis, 495 pages, first UK edition as new.

The Information

AMIS,Martin

The Limited Edition of Martin Amis's magnificent novel of literary envy. In The Information, the best-selling author of London Fields and Time's Arrow has written a totally mesmerizing and thoroughly entertaining novel that puts all of his extraordinary talents on display. "I've always thought of Martin Amis as the literary Mick Jagger of my generation.--Christopher Buckley, Washington Times

THE INFORMATION.

Girlfriend In A Coma

Resident Alien; The New York Diaries

Quentin Crisp

Biographies & Memoirs

The second volume of Jeremy Lewis&rsquo;s wonderfully entertaining autobiography sees him starting out, with a mixture of diffidence and self-professed incompetence, on a career in publishing. We follow his unexpected elevation, via bibulous lunches and slumberous afternoons, from miniondom to boardroom, before the inevitable expulsion occurs and he finds himself back in his familiar suburb, gazing out of the window and dreaming of Arcadia. Along the way he comes across a host of kindred (and sometimes very decidedly unkindred) spirits from the literary and publishing worlds: tucking into cod and chips with Jane and Geoffrey Grigson, drinking tea with Kingsley Amis and retsina with Patrick Leigh Fermor, and looking on with awe and admiration as a dhoti-clad Mr Chaudhuri, India&rsquo;s greatest writer and a sprightly nonagenarian, cuts clean through a telephone cable while digging a trench for his roses, instantly disconnecting all the houses down his quiet Oxford street. Hilarious as Jeremy Lewis&rsquo;s misadventures may be, 'Kindred Spirits' is tinged with melancholy, with a sense of chances missed and lost for ever, and the implacable passing of time. Exhilarating reading &hellip; a perfectly judged memoir, elegant and funny, inspiriting and illuminating.PATRICIA CRAIG, 'Independent' The funniest book I have ever read about publishing &hellip; this is not merely a hugely entertaining book, but also an important one.CHRISTOPHER SINCLAIR-STEVENSON, 'Daily Telegraph' That he&rsquo;s a &lsquo;nonentity&rsquo; is immaterial. Indeed, it rather points up his skill. Having no previous interest in Lewis&rsquo;s life, I read, absorbed and with the kind of pleasurable intensity usually derived from thrillers.NIGELLA LAWSON, 'Spectator'

Kindred Spirits - Adrift In Literary London

JEREMY LEWIS

Meatless Days

Sara Suleri

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