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"On tire et mes yeux entrent dans mon crâne, mes yeux voient l'intérieur de ma boîte crânienne, voient les zones d'ombre et l'oubli, voient la confusion. Mes yeux voient l'absence de Nobody. Mes yeux voient le noir, voient la perte. Mes yeux voient ce que je ne trouve pas, voient le noir de la terre ...

Paris in the 1890s. Adam Gould, whose Anglo-Irish father has disowned him, works in a lunatic asylum run by the celebrated Dr Blanche, some of whose patients once starred in France's social firmament and still, when sane, sit at table with distinguished guests. One such patient is Guy de Maupassant.

A novel, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell.

Tom Stoppard's first novel, originally published in 1966, includes not only the eighteenth-century figure of the dandified Malquist and his ineffectual Boswell, Moon, but also a couple of cowboys with six-shooters, a lion (banned from the Ritz) and a donkey-borne Irishman claiming to be the risen Christ.

A nail-biting drama ensues as Ophelia, top barrister, wife and mother, sees her life implode around her.

Contrasting with the fall of Nazi Germany, an aristocratic Viennese girl grows into womanhood amid strange family intrigues, bizarre events, and eccentric people until the Russian troops invade Austria

May 1989. Tens of thousands of students are camped out in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. One of them, Dai Wei, argues with about everything from democracy to the distribution of food to protestors, little knowing that, on 4 June, a soldier will shoot a bullet into his head, sending him into a coma. This book chronicles the lead-up to his shooting.

In a country recovering from a brutal and divisive civil war, a young boy, Jamie, is knocked off his bike and dies in a city street. His father agrees to allow one of Jamie's lungs to be removed and flown over the border for a transplant.

The mission is Vietnam in microcosm: a quest to find and destroy a secret cache of enemy weapons. Leading this fateful journey is Captain MacHugh Clare. His reward at the end of the mission is the possibility of seeing his wife. Meanwhile, in America, Mac's wife Sarah begins to see possibilities beyond merely waiting for the man she loves.

Charlie Johnson is a veteran war correspondent who thinks he has seen it all - until he makes one rash expedition into a war zone in the Balkans.

A "song man" blinds his daughter to keep her from following her half-brother, who ran away due to the art's rigorous training. The girl forgives her father before his death, and through this act, she deepens her insight into the nature of human existence, and, as her father had insisted would happen, ...

Lark and her brother, Termite, who is unable to walk or talk but is deeply loved by his family. The two are raised by their aunt Nonie in place of Lola, their mother, and Termite's father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, who is caught up in the chaos of the Korean War.

A special tie-in edition to Michael Hoffman's new Oscar-tipped movie, The Last Station

Duelling, derring-do, and dastardly deeds are all in a day's work for Liberty Lane: the plucky heroine for fans of Georgette Heyer and Sarah Waters's Victorian novels.

The famous comedy actress Pauline McLynn has crafted a hugely entertaining and poignant novel

A novel about bloodthirsty 1950s movie cowgirls with hallucinogenic toadsucking properties: this is seductive, fine fiction at the cutting edge of mayhem

What happens when the minibus full of your fellow wedding travellers hits a bear in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness? From a lonely excursion to a Lisbon cafe to the sometimes disorienting experience of emerging from a New York subway, this work focuses on a range of subjects related to travel.