In 1953, an unknown German writer with a 1000-page novel met with astonishment and success. Paul Celan hailed it as 'a genuine work of art' Siegfried Lenz praised it as an 'event' and, in 1999, Maarten Hart, writing for Die Zeit, proclaimed it 'the greatest book of the century'. Based on the author's experiences in the 1930s in Mallorca, The Island of Second Sight follows Vigoleis (the author's alter ego) as he is pursued by Nazis and Francoists. He and his wife Beatrice embark on a series of unpredictable and surreal adventures to survive.

The Island of Second Sight

Albert Thelen

Literature & Fiction

Galileo Publishers

'The Balloonist' is both an intense love story and a science fiction adventure. It is centred on an attempt by a Swedish scientist, an American journalist and a French speaking adventurer, to become the first people to set foot on the North Pole, to arrive there, and return, borne on the wind by a huge red and white balloon.

The Balloonist

MacDonald Harris

Genre Fiction

Photographs of Japan's best-known gardens in a variety of styles express the beauty and diversity of Japanese gardening. In Infinite Spaces, they are integrated with extracts from the Sakuteiki's Notes on Garden Design, written in the 11th century.

Infinite Spaces

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Joe Earle

Gardening & Landscape Design

Screenplay

In 1980s LA, Alys, a wealthy young man, accepts a stranger's invitation to get him into the movies and finds himself plunged into the black and white world of the Silents, a Hollywood precisely as it was in the 1920s, where love is the only subject matter but passion can be expressed only within the censor's limits. Alys' love for the glamorous and elusive Moira Silver inevitably leads him to want to break out of this artifical world with her, back to garish LA. It is as tauntingly erotic as it is brilliantly imaginative.

Harris, MacDonald

Contemporary

A follow-up to Sound the Deep Waters, this is the second book of a series which focuses on the poetry of World War I. It is illustrated with the work of painters of the time.

Some Corner of a Foreign Field: Poetry and Art of the First World War

Poetry

In the Cairngorms

Nan Shepherd

Shepherd, Nan

This is the author’s choice of the 100 best English language novels spanning 400 years.. Each entry has a two page critique of the book in question. His selection touches on both the classics and literary gems that may have escaped our notice.

The 100 Best Novels in English

McCrum, Robert

British & Irish

Auschwitz: a place where millions were killed and which thousands now visit each year. A mass grave - and a tourist destination. The focus of this work of autobiographical fiction is on the sightseers - the curious that are drawn to visit. It is a book that questions our need to look: what is there to uncover, other than the difficulty of peering into such a place and into a subject that has been obsessively documented, yet can never really be understood? How to write about Auschwitz in the twenty-first century, in a time when the last generation of survivors is soon to be lost? This is also a book that searches for a personal story. It opens on a local bus that takes Angela, her husband En (whose mother survived the holocaust where most of her family did not) and their two sons to Auschwitz sixty years after the holocaust, and ends in a pine forest outside Minsk where En's grandparents were shot in May 1942. The backbone of Auschwitz is a series of e-mails between the author and acclaimed Franco-American writer Raymond Federman. At the age of 14, Federman (now approaching 80) was hastily thrust into the small upstairs closet of their Paris apartment by his mother just before she, his father and two sisters were taken to Auschwitz, where they were killed. Federman also has spent a lifetime trying to find a language appropriate for the enormity of the holocaust and his part in its legacy, ultimately espousing laughterature - laughter as a means of survival. This beautiful, powerful and innovative work experiments with new forms - correspondence, reflections, dreams, a travelogue - that mirror the fragmentary legacy of the holocaust itself and that, at the same time, capture its contradictions - and sometimes its absurdity.

Auschwitz

Cutler, Angela

History & Criticism

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The Island of Second Sight

The Balloonist

Infinite Spaces

Screenplay

Some Corner of a Foreign Field: Poetry and Art of the First World War

In the Cairngorms

In the Cairngorms

The 100 Best Novels in English

The 100 Best Novels in English

Auschwitz