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Louis de Bernières
An novel poking fun at modern mores and delving into what we should really treasure in our precarious lives. From the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
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Louis de Bernieres
‘Surreal and hilarious’ Independent Enter Louis de Bernieres’ magical, tragic and hilarious South American odyssey. When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her…
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While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, with whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfilment. But for Cardinal…
Sometimes we must…
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Daniel is a flawed but captivating hero, and this coming-of-old-age story illuminates both the effect of two World Wars on a generation and the irrepressible spirit and love that can…
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Red Dog is a West Australian, a lovable friendly red kelpie who found widespread fame as a result of his habit of travelling all over Western Australia. While visiting Australia…
Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christian and Muslim…
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised…
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Barbara Pym
Genteel North Oxford is riven by gossip and scandal in Barbara Pym’s exquisitely entertaining comedy.
Margaret Reynolds,Jonathan Noakes
A guide to the works of Louis de Bernieres. It offers an in-depth interview with Louis de Bernieres, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. It also includes questions for…
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Ogden Craig
Catalogue # CHAN9780
anon.: Mis Dolencias
Barrios Mangoré: Cho da Saudade
Barrios Mangoré: Las Abejas
Calace: Amor si culla (Love is a Fool), Op. 133
Giuliani: Gran Duo Concertant, Op…
A beautiful collection of poems from bestselling author Louis de Bernieres. From the very start of his writing career Louis de Bernieres has loved poetry.
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Chris is in his forties: bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. He’s a stranger to the 1970s youth culture of London, a stranger to himself on the night…
Accompanying publication to ‘Perched’, an exhibition of glass swallow works at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden created by Feleksan Onar.
Introduces the village of Notwithstanding where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether, and a spiritualist lives in a cottage…
In the brief golden years of King Edward VII’s reign, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent, with their neighbours…
A farcical tragedy inextricably entangled with myth, Louis de Bernieres’s brilliant first novel is an intoxicating story of life, love, and politics in South America. The war begins when the…
Louis De Bernieres
A charming story of a young boy and his dog adventuring through the outback. Prequel to the bestselling Red Dog. When a family tragedy means Mick is sent to the…
They were an inseparable tribe of childhood friends whose world was torn apart by the First World War. Some were lost in battle, and those who survived have had their…
Set in South America, this is the story of a young philosophy lecturer who becomes embroiled in the vicious world of the drug barons. Vivo lives a charmed life, it…
Capturing the myriad voices of modern Britain, with their different rhythms of speech and accents, their humour and their tragedy, jokes and gossip, this book describes the community and spirit…
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When a family tragedy means Mick is sent to the outback to live with his Granpa, it looks as if he has a lonely life ahead of him. The cattle…
Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding, where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether, a spiritualist lives in a cottage…
In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent. But their days…
Word count 7,662 Suitable for younger readers
Filled with humor and pathos, the long-awaited new novel by the bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin tells a story about the political and personal costs of war, and of…
Louis de Bernieres is the master of historical fiction that makes you both laugh and cry, in the perfect nostalgic read to escape with this autumn. Is it ever too…
The enchanting story of a very remarkable dog from the author of the bestselling Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. ‘In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to…
Dionisio Vivo, a South American lecturer in philosphy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the…
Extravagant, inventive, emotionally sweeping, this rich and lyrical, heartbreaking and hilarious novel has been widely hailed as a classic. Set on the peaceful island of Cephallonia, just as the horrors…
Rosie and Daniel have moved to Ceylon with their little daughter to start a new life at the dawn of the 1920s, attempting to put the trauma of the First…
Louis de Bernieres is one of our most treasured writers and these stories show his imaginative range and unique storytelling power. De Bernieres’ unlikely and unforgettable heroes are found collecting…
This reader is accompanied with a CD that contains the full audio of the text in MP3 format. This is a great love story set in the tragedy of war…
25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR ‘A true diamond of a novel, glinting with comedy and tragedy’ Daily Mail It is 1941 and Captain Antonio…
The author of Corelli’s Mandolin continues his fictional chronicle of Cochadebajo, the charmed Andean village where macho philosophers, defrocked priests, and reformed (though hardly inactive) prostitutes live together in cheerful…
Louis De Berniere
Red Dog is a West Australian, a lovable friendly red kelpie who found widespread fame as a result of his habit of traveling all over Western Australia, hitching rides over…
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Poetry was Louis de Bernieres’ first literary love and Imagining Alexandria is his debut poetry collection.
One evening in early spring, in the days when all the trains were driven by steam, a stationmaster found something abandoned on a train …
Mr Ginger Leghorn is used…
Rona Munro’s adaptation of Louis de Bernieres’ much-loved epic novel. Kefalonia, 1941. Captain Corelli, an enigmatic young Italian officer, is posted to the idyllic Greek island as part of the…
