In a Mediterranean island fortress-prison under the Bourbon monarchy, four political prisoners suspected of conspiracy spend their last night before execution, resurrecting their pasts, lifting the veil on lives of heroic hope and sordid ambition, bringing out the best and worst in themselves.

Night's Lies

Literature & Fiction

Bufalino, Gesualdo

Contemporary

Harvill Pr

Light

In the remote fastnesses of Northern Sweden, where a small community shares its meagre subsistence with its domestic livestock, an imported rabbit introduces the plague and the population is all but annihilated. Torgny Lindgren is the author of "Bathsheba" and "Merab's Beauty".

Lindgren, Torgny

Lindgen, Torgny

Dramas & Plays

The Opposing Shore

With four elegant and beautifully crafted novels Julien Gracq has established himself as one of France's premier postwar novelists. A mysterious and retiring figure, Gracq characteristically refused the Goncourt, France's most distinguished literary prize, when it was awarded to him in 1951 for this book. As the latest work in the Twentieth-Century Continental Fiction Series, Gracq'a masterpiece is now available for the first time in English. Set in a fictitious Mediterranean port city, The Opposing Shore is the first-person account of a young aristocrat sent to observe the activities of a naval base. The fort lies at the country's border; at its feet is the bay of Syrtes. Across the bay is territory of the enemy who has, for three hundred years, been at war with the narrator's countrymen; the battle has become a complex, tacit game in which no actions are taken and no peace declared. As the narrator comes to understand, everything depends upon a boundary, unseen but certain, separating the two sides. Besides the narrator there are two other main characters, the dark and laconic captain of the base and a woman whose compex relations to both sides of the war brings the narator deeper into the story's web. For many French readers The Opposing Shore (published as Le rivage des Syrtes ), with its theme of transgressions and boundaries, spoke to the issue of defeat and the desire to fail: a paticularly sensitive motif in postwar French literature. But there is nothing about the novel tying it either to France or to the 1950s; in fact, Gracq's novel, with its elaborate, richly detailed prose, will be of greater interest now than at any point in the last twenty years.

GRACQ, Julien

Genre Fiction

Marklund the picture-framer sinks all his savings into a Madonna by Dardel. Suddenly the picture makes a duplicate appearance, in the studio of the man with the goatee beard, the tax authorities confiscate the original and the sitter's son turns up asserting it is stolen property.

In Praise of Truth: The Personal Account of Theodore Marklund, Picture-Framer

Geddes, Tom

Biographies & Memoirs

Devoted to frontiers, both tangible and abstract, this book contains essays, prose, memoirs, poetry and fiction by authors from 13 countries, published in English for the first time in this volume. The blend of writers includes some who are established in Britain, and some who are unknown here.

Leopard III: Frontiers

A second Harvill selection of the best writing in English and translation. Fiction, poetry and literary matters are present and including work by Andrei Bitov, Paul Durcan, Nadine Gordimer, Claudio Magris, Boris Pasternak and Joy Williams.

Leopard II: Turning the Page : Essays, Memoirs, Fiction, Poetry, and One Sermon

Treasure Island

Children's Books

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS

Action & Adventure

After being kidnapped by his villainous uncle, sixteen-year-old David Balfour escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule

Kidnapped

Literary

A Matter of Death and Life

Andrey Kurkov

In this enviable gathering, Haruki Murakami has chosen for his party some of the very best short story writers of recent years, each with their own birthday experiences, each story a snapshot of life on a single day. One man's rebellion against the traditional family birthday dinner of his childhood; the ghosts of a mis-spent youth; unusual guests entertained by an old woman whose son has forgotten her special day - this anthology captures a range of emotions evoked by advancing age and the passing of time, from events fondly recalled to the impact of appalling tragedy.

Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami

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