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Cipriano and his daughter craft a new line of small ceramic figurines and the Centre orders cast quantities and then recants. Resigned to idleness, Cipriano moves to a soulless megaplex, until late one night he comes across a horrifying secret in the bowels of the artificial city. This is an Orwellian nightmare, a family fable and a love story.

Contains a trekking chapter that provides practical advice for outdoor enthusiasts. This guide to Morocco lays emphasis on sustainable travel and comprehensive advice on purchasing Moroccan crafts. It contains a Culture chapter that helps you learn about the Moroccan way of life through local's Fatima, Driss and Amina.

When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respect

The Communist Manifesto presents a summary of the whole Marxist vision of history and is the foundation document of the Marxist movement. Published on the eve of the 1848 revolutions, the manifesto is a condensed accpunt of the world-view of Marx and Engels, evolved over the previous few years.

Re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of 21 Homeric characters. Sacrificing none of Homer's panoramic scope, the author forgoes Homer's detachment and admits us to realms of subjective experience.

Tells a story of war and defiance. Featuring the watercolor talents of painter Lynn Varley, this title marks the first collaboration for these two creators since 1990's Elektra Lives Again . The five-part series is collected into a 88-page hardcover volume, with each two-page spread from the comic presented as it was originally intended.

A Jewish classic of great interest to anyone interested in the Kabbala or mysticism.

'One day there is life...and then, suddenly, it happens there is death.' So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. The first section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his father. In 'The Book of Memory' the perspective shifts to Auster's role as a father. The narrator, 'A', contemplates his separation from his ...

Offers coverage of the destinations in the Northeast States. This work includes an activities section that spans festivals, language classes, yoga courses and Ayurvedic massage.

Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. This is the story of two brothers, but the subject of the novel is in its dismantling of society and its assumptions, a dissection of modern lives and loves.

In the sector of the holiday market that caters for sun, sangria and house music, not to mention sex, Lanzarote rivals Corfu and Ibiza. On Lanzarote, one can meet some fascinating human specimens - notably Pam and Barbara, 'non-exclusive' German lesbians. Will they succeed in seducing Rudi, the police inspector from Luxembourg?

In this novel Paul Auster offers a haunting picture of a devastated world - a futuristic world - but one which may be seen to shadow our own. Auster's other work includes The New York Trilogy and Hand to Mouth , and the screenplays Smoke and Blue in the Face .

The author of this text offers a theory of consciousness. He proposes that conscious experience must be understood as an irreducible entity similar to such physical properties as time, mass, and space that exists at a fundamental level and cannot be understood as the sum of its parts.

Henry Chinaski is a low-life loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial Post Office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and race tracks. First published in 1971, this was Charles Bukowski's debut novel.

This graphic novel is a complete 10-issue story, available for the first time in a Watchman-style edition. It has been illustrated in full colour by the artist, David Lloyd.