The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. His tools are the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, the empirical insights of Roger Bacon-all sharpened to a glistening edge by wry humor and a ferocious curiosity. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey, where "the most interesting things happen at night."

The Name of the Rose

Literature & Fiction

ECO,UMBERTO

Contemporary

London: Picador

"The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" is populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction. The subject of this strange and wonderful book is what happens when things go wrong with parts of the brain most of us don't know exist ...Dr Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be' - "Sunday Times". 'Who is this book for? Who is it not for? It is for everybody who has felt from time to time that certain twinge of self-identity and sensed how easily, at any moment, one might lose it' - "The Times". 'This is, in the best sense, a serious book. It is, indeed, a wonderful book, by which I mean not only that it is excellent (which it is) but also that it is full of wonder, wonders and wondering. He brings to these often unhappy people understanding, sympathy and respect. Sacks is always learning from his patients, marvelling at them, widening his own understanding and ours' - "Punch".

Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat (Picador)

Biographies & Memoirs

OLIVER SACKS

Professionals & Academics

The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty

The story of a man in the wrong place at the wrong time - Ireland in the 1920s - whose fate becomes bound up with that of his country, and who, through no fault of his own, is forced to flee his home.

The whereabouts of Eneas McNulty

Sebastian, Barry

Considered one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, Isaac Babel (1894-1941) left a literary legacy that continues to grow more than sixty years after his death at the hands of Stalin's secret police. This magnificent book, edited by his daughter Natalie and newly translated by Peter Constantine, is a literary event of enormous dimensions - the first English, single-volume edition of Isaac Babel's work, it brings this magnificent writer back to life. To read Babel is to relive the wild and often terrifying swings of twentieth-century Russian history. No writer has conveyed the story of this nation and its brutal heritage with such emotion and energy. He injected compassion, wit and daring into the literary climate of post-Tsarist Russia. In the process he created a style so vivid, so lacerating and so utterly hypnotic that his stories have come to define the bloody landscape of the Soviet Union in the years between the two world wars. The collection includes such classic works as the Red Cavalry Stories , the Odessa Stories and the 1920 Diary, as well as several previously untranslated stories and screenplays. The Complete Works of Isaac Babel will stand as Babel's final, most enduring legacy. `Unblinking witness and electric, heroically wrought prose . . . Babel's art flourished in Lenin's false dawn. As darkness fell, he became his talent's warder; his vitality became his enemy' John Updike `Babel is altogether the artist, drawing the reader completely into a new view of the world' New York Review of Books `Some of the finest Russian fiction of the twentieth century . . . A true literary event' Washington Post `A monumental collection, edited by the Russian author's daughter, that gathers all of Babel's deft and brutal writing, including a wide array of previously unavailable material' Los Angeles Times

The Complete Works of Isaac Babel

Babel', I. (Isaak) (1894-1941)

Rupture [Signed, dated, and lined]

LELIC, SIMON

Literary

In 1961, a few weeks before Hemingway took his own life, AE Hotchner visited his old friend for the last time. What the writer told him formed the final piece of the mystery Hemingway had been revealing down the years: the story of the affair that destroyed his marriage, and the woman who haunted his life and fiction. Withheld for decades out of consideration for his widow, this frank account reveals an unknown Hemingway: humble, thoughtful and full of regret.

Hemingway in Love: His Own Story

A.E. Hotchner

Memoirs

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