As Meat Loves Salt

Transplant Othello to the tumult of a country in social and political flux and en route to regicide -- England in the 1640s -- and render him uncertain about his sexuality, and you have the makings of Jacob Cullen, one of the most commanding characters in contemporary writing. As the book opens, Jacob is an educated, vigorous and dauntingly strong manservant in a Royalist household, who has begun to imbibe god-fearing revolutionary pamphlets. He is on the brink of marriage to his virginal sweetheart, but is unsure of his emotional needs, and in possession of a boiling point he reaches all too often. He is also, we learn, fearful of being identified as the murderer of a local boy, and a potential nemesis arrives on the very day of his wedding feast, prompting the first of a series of impetuous, temper-fuelled bad decisions: Jacob flees, dragging his new wife and one of his brothers with him. Thereafter he proceeds to wreak havoc on the lives of others but mostly on his own fortunes - as a servant, a husband, a brother, a soldier, and, critically, as friend, co-conspirator and lover of another man disaffected by the lurch from freedom to tyranny now apparent in Cromwell's New Model Army. To step outside the law, outside the state, outside the established and natural order of things seems to supply the only prospect of happiness...All this makes for a truly heady historical narrative: gripping, unusual, packed with heady ingredients - truly, we are in a world turned upside down by political fervour, inflammatory pamphleteering, social flux, grisly combat, apocalyptically evangelical Christianity, sexual confusion, and murder most foul...The earthy, tangy quality of McCann's Republican-style prose, infused with a fresh twentieth-century sensibility, makes the whole entirely accessible and irresistible. Is this then perhaps the first great novel of the English Revolution?

As meat loves salt

Literature & Fiction

MCCANN, Maria

Genre Fiction

London: Flamingo

2 books by Frank McCourt comprises: Angela's Ashes - Memoir of a Childhood and Special'Tis a Memoir - The Sequel to Angela's Ashes. Comes complete in a gift box.

Angela's Ashes/'Tis: A Memoir of a Childhood: AND 'Tis

MCCOURT, FRANK

Biographies & Memoirs

Good Company

Partridge, Frances

Physical description; xviii, 269p, [4] p. of plates ; 20 cm. Notes; Originally published: London: Anvil, 1980. Summary; Richard Holmes brings together for the first time Shelley's almost unknown prose writings as well as the better-known love poetry for which he is famous. The collection, which treats of love in all its forms and manifestations, presents on intellectual and emotional portrait of a great poet's beliefs and personality. Subjects; Love - Literary collections .English literature. Essays, journals, letters &amp; other prose works. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English poetry ; 19th century ; Love poetry, English ; English prose literature.

Shelley on Love: Selected writings

Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1792-1822

Holmes, Richard (1945-), editor

Classics

Palermo, 1946. Carlo Terzo, a retired military strategist who has never seen combat, is teaching young Salvatore Dragonara military history while Terzo works on his 'Manual for Strategic Living', in which he hopes to apply the hard lessons of war to daily life.\nSalvatore is in love with the young and beautiful Fiore, whose mother, the Duchess Mastema, is a rich and cruel landowner. When Terzo and his friends visit the duchess’s property, they are caught in a pitched battle between the oppressed peasants and the duchess’s hired thugs, and Terzo is forced to put his strategic wisdom to the test…

Prince of the Clouds

Riotta, Gianni. Sartarelli, Stephen (1954-). Pericoli, Matteo (1968-)

Contemporary

The Bulgari Connection

Physical description; 224 p. ; 18cm. Subjects; Upper class England London ; Fiction. London (England) Social life and customs 20th century ; Fiction.

Weldon,Fay

The Dream Room

Möring, Marcel

If Naomi Klein's "No Logo" told us what was wrong, George Monbiot promises to show us how to put it right. "Our task," he says, "is not to overthrow globalisation, but to capture it, and to use it as a vehicle for humanity's first global democratic revolution." All over our planet, the rich get richer while the poor are overtaken by debt and disaster. The world is run not by its people but by a handful of unelected or underelected executives who make the decisions on which everyone else depends: concerning war, peace, debt, development and the balance of trade. Without democracy at the global level, the rest of us are left with no means of influencing these men but to shout abuse and hurl ourselves at the lines of police defending their gatherings and decisions. Does it have to be this way? George Monbiot knows not only that things ought to change, but also that they can change. Drawing on decades of thinking about how the world is organized and administered politically, fiscally and commercially, Monbiot has developed an interlocking set of proposals all his own, which attempts nothing less than a revolution in the way the world is run. If these proposals become popular, never again will people be able to ask of the critics of the existing world order, "we know what they don't want, but what do they want?"

The Age of Consent

Business & Money

Monbiot, George

Economics

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