This is one of the best things I have read in a long time. The story line, the characters, the setting and the "world" are all drawn marvellously, and it is just a joy to read. Sensationally good writing and a writer to follow.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow takes us on a dazzling imaginative quest, examining identity, creativity and our need to connect.
This is not a romance, but it is about love.
'I just love this book and I hope you love it too' JOHN GREEN, TikTok
Sam and Sadie meet in a hospital in 1987. Sadie is visiting her sister, Sam is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there, but playing together brings joy, escape, fierce competition -- and a special friendship. Then all too soon that time is…
Kerry Brown is a "must read" on China at a time when so much of what we get is crassly pro- or anti-China. Brown knows the country best than most and has a thoroughly realistic and nuanced view on what the country under Xi Jinping means to the rest of the world. Highly recommended.
Is the West prepared for a world where power is shared with China? A world in which China asserts the same level of global leadership that the USA currently assumes? And can we learn to embrace Chinese political culture, as China learned to embrace ours?
Here, one of the world's leading voices on China, Kerry Brown, takes us past the tired cliches and inside the Chinese leadership - as they lay out a roadmap for working in a world in which China shares dominance with the West.
From how, and why, China as a dominant superpower has been inevitable for…
Towles must be regarded as one of the very best writers going around at present. His language use and story structure are outstanding, and his depiction of places and people vivid and arresting. It is just a sheer pleasure to read, and a master class for writers on how good prose can be.
“A knockout collection. ... Sharp-edged satire deceptively wrapped like a box of Neuhaus chocolates, Table for Two is a winner.” —The New York Times
“Superb ... This may be Towles’ best book yet. Each tale is as satisfying as a master chef’s main course, filled with drama, wit, erudition and, most of all, heart.” —Los Angeles Times
Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood.
The first in Brian Stoddart's Superintendent Le Fanu mysteries set in south India under British rule in the 1920s. A pro-Independence policeman with his own problems sets out with his Muslim colleague to solve the murder of a visiting Englishwoman, and uncovers an international drug ring run by corrupt civil servants and businessmen. Along the way his personal life becomes complicated and Le Fanu what his career path will look like later.
