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

Hardcover with dust jacket, 1989, First Edition, 375 pages, Jean Genet Autobiography, which includes his relationships with The Palestinians and The Black Panthers.

Prisoner of Love

Genet, Jean (1910-1986)

In the first major English biography of Honor de Balzac for over fifty years, Graham Robb has produced a compelling portrait of the great French novelist whose powers of creation were matched only by his self-destructive tendencies. As colorful as the world he described, Balzac is the perfect subject for biography: a relentless seducer whose successes were as spectacular as his catastrophes; a passionate collector, inventor, explorer, and political campaigner; a mesmerizing storyteller with the power to make his fantasies come true. Skillfully interweaving the life with the novels, Robb presents Balzac as one of the great tragi-comic heroes of the nineteenth century, a man whose influence both in and outside his native France has been, and still is, immense. "Those who know Balzac will not be able to put this book down; those who don't know him will rush from this biography to make his acquaintance." (Richard Marius, author of THOMAS MORE: A BIOGRAPHY)

Balzac.

Robb, Graham (b. 1958-)

Leading a vacuous life in Liverpool with her Jewish family, Sybil Ross is 14 years old when she overhears a forbidding family secret. Reacting, she sets off for America, where she joins the Communist Party and ends up being pursued by the forces of McCarthyism until she reaches California.

The Cast Iron Shore

GRANT, Linda

‘Sinclair matches his brisk and original intelligence with an abundant yet sharply controlled prose that makes The Lady with the Laptop a hugely enjoyable and stimulating collection’ Nicholas Wroe, Independent ‘His natural irony is a consistently benevolent force, undermining prejudice, cultural division and paranoia . . . The Lady with the Laptop confirms him as a great observer of both the Jewish diaspora and the instability of any cultural identity’ Ra Page, Guardian ‘Sinclair is great fun, a canny court jester juggling big issues of life, death and cultural chaos, to the tune of a belly laugh’ Angela Neustatter, Literary Review ‘As the title suggests, there is a Chekovian theme running through the stories. They are laced with a wonderful black irony, but they are also very poignant’ Shena Mackay, Scotland on Sunday, Books of the Year ‘This outstanding collection should consolidate Clive Sinclair’s reputation as one of the most inventive writers working in the fo

The lady with the laptop and other stories

Sinclair, Clive (1948-2018)

Physical description; 200 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects; Divorced men - India - Calcutta - Fiction. Authors - Fiction. Family - India - Calcutta - Fiction.

A New World

Chaudhuri, Amit

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

A Haunted Heart

MacKenna, John

Romance

Physical description; 228p. ; 22cm. Subjects; Family - India - Fiction. Urban poor - India - Fiction. Indic fiction (English) - 21st century.

The blue bedspread

Jha, Raj Kamal

Literary

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