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Something to Tell You

Tue, 26 May 2026 18:10:09 +0000

This novel follows Jamal Khan, a middle-aged London psychoanalyst, as he looks back on his life, his work, and a long-buried act of violence from his youth that continues to haunt him. Moving between present-day therapy sessions and memories of 1970s London, the book explores guilt, desire, friendship, race, and the shifting cultural landscape of Britain. Through Jamal’s intimate, candid voice, it examines how the past shapes identity and how secrets linger beneath seemingly successful lives. Written by the acclaimed author of *The Buddha of Suburbia*, it offers Kureishi’s characteristic blend of psychological insight, wit, and sharp social observation, appealing to readers interested in contemporary fiction that probes morality, intimacy, and modern urban life.

Bobby Fischer Goes to War

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:53:12 +0000

This gripping work of narrative history recounts the 1972 World Chess Championship in Reykjavik, where American grandmaster Bobby Fischer challenged Soviet champion Boris Spassky in a match that became a symbolic battle of the Cold War. More than a story about chess, it explores the political tensions, psychological drama, and cultural stakes that turned a board game into a global spectacle. David Edmonds, a philosopher and journalist known for making complex ideas accessible to general readers, brings clarity and momentum to the story, drawing on interviews and historical research to illuminate the personalities involved and the wider geopolitical context. The book examines genius and obsession, ideology and propaganda, and the strange pressures placed on two men asked to embody rival superpowers. Accessible to chess enthusiasts and general readers alike, it offers a compelling portrait of a singular historical moment when sport, politics, and personality collided. EX-LIBRARY COPY

The inheritors

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:52:25 +0000

A haunting and imaginative re-creation of prehistoric humanity, this novel tells the story of a small band of Neanderthals whose fragile world is upended by the arrival of a more advanced and violent species: modern humans. Told largely from the perspective of the Neanderthals, the narrative evokes a society marked by innocence, closeness to nature, and limited but deeply felt understanding, making their gradual displacement both tragic and unsettling. Through spare, powerful prose, the book explores themes of evolution, loss, violence, and the cost of progress. Written by the Nobel Prize–winning author of *Lord of the Flies*, it offers a profound meditation on what it means to be human and will appeal to readers drawn to literary fiction that combines psychological insight with mythic resonance.

Uncle Paul

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:13:25 +0000

Uncle Paul by Celia Fremlin is a psychological thriller centered around three sisters—Mildred, Isabel, and Meg—whose family holiday at a seaside village reawakens fears of their half-brother Paul’s revenge. Paul, a convicted bigamist and murderer, is about to be released from prison fifteen years after his arrest. Mildred, who once honeymooned with Paul at the cottage they rent again, believes he is coming for revenge, while her sisters initially doubt the threat. The novel masterfully builds tension and paranoia as the sisters’ fears escalate amid suspicion and betrayal, set against a 1950s British seaside backdrop. Rich in psychological insight and dark humor, the story explores complex family dynamics with a slow-burning suspense that keeps readers engaged throughout.

Winter Journal

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 17:31:37 +0000

‘You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.’ In Winter Journal, Paul Auster moves through the events of his life in a series of memories grasped from the point of view of his life now: playing baseball as a teenager; participating in the anti-Vietnam demonstrations at Columbia University; seeking out prostitutes in Paris, almost killing his second wife and child in a car accident; falling in and out of live with his first wife; the ‘scalding, epiphanic moment of clarity’ in 1978 that set him on a new course as a writer. Winter Journal is a poignant memoir of ageing and memory, written with all the characteristic subtlety, imagination and insight that readers of Paul Auster have come to cherish.

Crossing the Water

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 18:22:28 +0000

Collected Longer Poems

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:25:32 +0000

W. H. Auden’s Collected Longer Poems is a new edition of longer poems, from one of the UK’s most cherished poets.

The Romance Languages

Tue, 20 May 2025 17:35:19 +0000

The Romance Languages by W. D. Elcock explores the evolution of the Romance languages from their origins in Vulgar Latin, the colloquial form of Latin spoken in the Roman world. The book delves into the historical and grammatical development of these languages, highlighting the anarchical tendencies of popular speech that shaped their divergence. It provides detailed linguistic analysis, including phonetic and morphological changes, though its structure varies and includes extensive historical and grammatical detail that can be dense at times.

Letters to Olga

Sat, 01 Mar 2025 13:12:51 +0000

The correspondence of Vaclav Havel to his wife, Olga, during his four-year imprisonment by Czechoslovak authorities for his involvement in the Czech human rights movement. In these letters, Havel wrote of his own reflections on the theatre, on society and on philosophy.

Fundamentals of Musical Composition

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:01:20 +0000

Fundamentals of Musical Composition represents the culmination of more than forty years in Schoenberg’s life devoted to the teaching of musical principles to students and composers in Europe and America. For his classes he developed a manner of presentation in which ‘every technical matter is discussed in a very fundamental way, so that at the same time it is both simple and thorough’. This book can be used for analysis as well as for composition. On the one hand, it has the practical objective of introducing students to the process of composing in a systematic way, from the smallest to the largest forms; on the other hand, the author analyses in thorough detail and with numerous illustrations those particular sections in the works of the masters which relate to the compositional problem under discussion. Fundamentals of Musical Composition Paperback – March 15, 1999 by Arnold Schoenberg (Author), Gerald Strang (Editor), Leonard Stein (Editor)