De Gaulle;

Biographies & Memoirs

Lacouture, Jean - Related Name: Price, Francis K

Leaders & Notable People

London: Hutchinson

The Russian secret police: Muscovite, Imperial Russian and Soviet Political security operations, 1565-1970

Politics & Social Sciences

HINGLEY, Ronald

Social Sciences

See the old lady decently

Johnson, B. S. (Bryan Stanley) (1933-1973)

Literature & Fiction

The river flowed in a dark, narrow channel. Light filtered in diagonal streaks through the canopy of overhanging trees. Cries from unseen animals filled the air from time to time. Flocks of parrots went shrieking past overhead, almost drowning out the clatter of the diesel of the battered old boat, The Princess Isabella, that chugged its way into the dark Amazon jungle.  On board the boat, sprawled in a hammock, César Calderón stared into the dank nothingness. He had just deserted a pregnant mistress and abandoned his business. In a bar in Santa Rosa a strange man had threatened to kill him. A man to whom he had done nothing, had in no way provoked, yet who claimed he, Calderón, owed him his life.  Perhaps Calderón had no alternative but to fulfil a bewildering yet murderous destiny. For had his grandmother not offered him this disturbing advice: ‘Go and find your father, hug him and embrace him, but stick a knife in his chest and let him fall at your feet.’ For in this haunting work of fiction the son must both abandon and become the father, and the father must always embrace death in the person of the son.  Writing in a style of deceptive simplicity, Zulfikar Ghose weaves a magical spell. Don Bueno is both straightforward and rich in resonance and symbol, wonderfully dreamlike yet solidly of and about this world. In this, his ninth novel, he demonstrates once again that he is a writer of increasing stature and accomplishment who makes his own way and creates his own world without regard for facile trends or shifting tastes.

Zulfikar Ghose

Ghose, Zulfikar (1935-?)

The Poetry Book Society Anthology

CONSTANTINE, David

Poetry

This book charts the career of Spain's most colourfully revolutionary. Hailing from true working class stock in the Basque region, Dolores Ibarruri, known to the world as La Pasionaria, and immortalized by her war-cry "They shall not pass" fiercely espoused the Communist cause even as a very young woman. Robert Low shows how, through her bravery and unswerving commitment to the plight of the oppressed, La Pasionaria became the darling of the Spanish Communist party and a symbol around which the Left rallied as the shadow of civil war loomed. Heady optimism gave way to bitter disappointment as Franco's fascist forces gained the uppper hand and eventually triumphed. Prefering exile to the firing squad, La Pasionaria spent the next 30 years in exile in the Soviet Union where she blindly lapped the Stalinist dogma that was fed her and gradually lost all touch with the political reality in her native land. On her return home to Spain in 1977 she was both hailed as a national heroine and reviled as an enemy of the people. Offering many insights into her personal as well as public life, Robert Low paints a picture of a woman whose idealism was exploited and manipulated and of a country exhausted by half a century of turmoil and oppression.

LA PASIONARIA

Low, Robert

Physical description: x, 197 p. ; 22 cm. Notes: "The poems in this book are taken from earlier editions, The collected Ewart: poems 1933-1980, Collected poems 1980-1990 and 85 poems"--T.p. verso. Summary: A collection of poems by Gavin Ewart which he selected before his death in 1995. Covers topics from sex to old age and death, with affectionate poems of family life, that reflect Ewart's style from light verse to more profound works. Subjects: English poetry - 20th century. Anthology. Genre: Poetry.

Selected Poems 1933-1993

Ewart, Gavin

Spellbound by beauty : Alfred Hitchcock and his leading ladies / by Donald Spoto

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

SPOTO, DONALD

Thrillers & Suspense

THE SONG OF THE DODO, ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY IN AN AGE OF EXTINCTION

DAVID QUAMMEN

The Blair Years: Extracts from The Alastair Campbell Diaries

Campbell, Alastair (1957-)

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