The Tupamaros;

Maria Esther Gilio

Martin Secker & Warburg

Choice of Enemies, A

HIGGINS, George V.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Birds Without Wings

<p>The story of the inhabitants of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman empire: Iskander the Potter and fount of proverbial wisdom; Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty who is courted almost from infancy by Ibrahim the Goatherd, their great love culminating in tragedy and madness; Karatavuk and Mehmet-ik, childhood friends who play in the hills above the town, Mehmet-ik teaching the illiterate Karatavuk how to write Turkish in Greek letters; the two holy men of different faiths, Father Kristoforos and Abdulhamid Hodja, who greet each other with the words 'infidel efendi'; the landlord Rustem Bey, his wife's adultery and stoning, and his journey to Istanbul in search of a Circassian mistress. It tells also of Mustafa Kemal, the man of destiny, who by virtue of military genius and sheer bloody-mindedness defeats the Franks and reshapes the whole region in his image. When jihad is declared against the Allies the young men of the town are sent to war. Karatavuk soon finds himself at Gallipoli where he experiences the intimate brutality of trench warfare, the loss of many comrades and of his own innocence. As the great world intrudes, the twin scourges of religion and nationalism lead to forced marches and massacres, hunger grips the town and the peaceful fabric of life is destroyed.</p>

Birds without wings

Literature & Fiction

De Bernières, Louis

Genre Fiction

<p>Dutiful and studious, Elizabeth has never been the rebel in her family. Now, in an attempt to bury her old self, she has moved to the deserts of the American Southwest to live in a house made out of beer cans with her boyfriend, Spencer, a crew-cut aficionado of country and western music. But memories of her unhappy adolescence prevent Elizabeth from embracing her new life and after proposing to Spencer to satisfy her dying grandmother's wish, Elizabeth is forced to return home to arrange an impromptu wedding. Once back in London, the discovery of disturbing secrets hampers her preparations and as the wedding date approaches, her family seems to be falling apart. Elizabeth must weigh the value of the American sincerity she has learned from Spencer against the repression that has been her family's lifelong habit. An intimate study of the unspoken passions of the English middle class, this exciting d-but novel is both poetic and gripping.</p>

Gone

Helena Echlin

Contemporary

A collection of twenty-two stories that probe the lives, trials, dreams and struggles of vividly drawn characters

THE COLLECTED STORIES.

William, Humphrey

British & Irish

For centuries, Poles and Germans have mingled in the province of Masuria in East Prussia, and, to preserve this heritage, Zygmunt Rogalla builds a museum that the forces of history compel him to destroy

The Heritage

LENZ, SIEGFRIED

Translated from the German by Krishna Winston

Authoritative narrative of the life, work, ambitions, successes, and thought of the prophetic twentieth-century American novelist

Nathanael West: the art of his life

MARTIN, Jay

Thinks... (Aus/Nz)

DAVID LODGE

Elsewhere, Perhaps

Oz's fictional community of Metsudat Ram is a microcosm of the Israeli frontier kibbutz, where, held together by necessity and menace, the kibbutz-niks share love and sorrow under the guns of their enemies and the eyes of history. Translated by Nicholas de Lange in collaboration with the Author. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

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