The Roots Of Coincidence

Politics & Social Sciences

Arthur Koestler

Philosophy

Picador; Macmillan

<p>An examination of the human impulse towards self-destruction suggests that in the course of human evolution, a pathological split between emotion and reason developed</p>

The Ghost in the Machine

<p>Alice is trying to thread a needle by the fire on a snowy afternoon, when she finds herself in an alphabetical land populated by Siamese-Twin Cats (joined at the tail), the Welsh Rabbit (with his toasted cheese), the Kangaroo, the spelling bees, the Italian Hairdresser who uses a small crocodile as a pair of scissors, Jack and Jill, and best of all, the Grampus.</p>

Alice Through the Needle's Eye: A Third Adventure for Lewis Carroll's Alice (Picador Books)

Literature & Fiction

Gilbert Adair

Contemporary

Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel

Emma Donoghue

Clare Boylan

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

deirdre-purcell

Anne Haverty

Kate O'Riordan

Toby Hawk is a solitary boy in a family of Amazons. His mother, only fifteen years older than him, is a painter on the brink of commercial success. His great-aunt is a wealthy textile designer; her partner, Liberty, a barrister. Meanwhile, eighteen-year-old Toby's world remains a small, closed round of school, domesticity and surfing the Net at night. But everything changes when his mother takes up with a fascinating but enigmatic scientist, Roehm. Patricia Duncker's gripping novel is a disturbing tale of Oedipal passion. It is also an eerie psychological ghost story in the European tradition, whose sources - Freud, Faust and Frankenstein - haunt the pages.

The Deadly Space Between

Patricia Duncker

The Great War

Les Carlyon

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