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This powerful novel is now a major film by Chinese director Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern; House ...
'A fit testament to the bravery, selflessness and sacrifice of a magnificent group of people. ' Sunday Telegraph
A postwar American masterpiece - Daily Telegraph
A gripping story of how a mother's obsession with the past darkly impacts on her daughters attempt to forge her own identity
An amateur English cook moves to Paris and enrols at France's - and the world's - most famous cookery school.
'Iris Murdoch is incapable of writing without fascinating and beautiful colour' The Times
'A remarkable novel-The product of a truly original mind, whose inventions are magically unforseeable' The Times
Brilliant, funny, powerfully evocative -the young English author of Duende! and his Spanish wife set out to create a magical garden high in remote Spanish mountains.
The pleasure lies in savouring Fishwick's prose. He has a real gift for capturing the difference voices of the characters... This is a literary, melancholic novel - The Times
'A rather special work-a tour de force' Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times
The first UK publication of Joe Sacco's classic, groundbreaking work of comics journalism with a foreword by Christopher Hitchens.