CHATTO & WINDUS

(H/B) RHYMING LIFE AND DEATH
Reality and fiction blend in an ingenious short novel from the celebrated author of A Tale of Love and Darkness - witty, elegiac, playful and sexy. An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits, bored, he begins to conjure up the life stories of the people he meets, not least Ricky, an equally bored but seductive waitress. Later, when the reading is underway, he weaves stories around the audience and panel before asking the professional reader for a drink. She...
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(P/B) HUNGRY CITY: HOW FOOD SHAPES OUR LIVES

(H/B) FEAST - FOOD THAT CELEBRATES LIFE

(P/B) DEATH OF A SALARYMAN

(H/B) MOTHS
Here is a potent, startlingly original novel -about moths, running, jazz, the Siberian Gulag, and seizing the moment- informed by a dark European sensibility lit with sparks of lyricism, irresistible irony and moments of unexpected black humour. From rural Holland in World War II to the Soviet labour camps by way of a curious jazz band in Minsk and Moscow, Moths tells the parallel stories of a father and son who live through interesting times. A self-indulgent Dutch businessman finds himself caught up in the liberation of Auschwitz by the ...
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(P/B) MISSING KISSINGER

(H/B) MICHELANGELO

(H/B) HUNTING AND GATHERING

LOVE

(H/B) SUITE FRANCAISE

(H/B) YOUR FACE TOMORROW (VOLUME TWO)
"Your Face Tomorrow", Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus is a novel in three parts which began with "Fever and Spear" (Chatto 2005). Described as an 'intriguing and audacious experiment' ("Sunday Times") and an 'outstanding spy novel of ideas' ("Independent"), the book now takes us even deeper into the dark world of Jacques Deza as, in volume two, his relationship with his shadowy boss, Bertram Tupra, becomes increasingly disconcerting. Jacques Deza is in a kind of limbo. Separated from his wife and child, living in London to m...
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EXISTENTIALISTS AND MYSTICS

(H/B) YOUR FACE TOMORROW (VOLUME 1)
In a return to the British setting of his much loved novel All Souls, Javier Marias embarks on a remarkable 'novel in parts', set in the murky world of surveillance and espionage. Fever and Spear is the first volume. In it Marias begins to weave a web of intrigue, both narrative and intellectual, that will entice the reader to follow him into the labyrinth of the novel's future books. Recently divorced, Jacques Deza moves from Madrid to London in order to distance himself from his ex-wife and children. There he picks up old friendships fro...
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THE LAMBS OF LONDON

(H/B) A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS
Tragic, comic and incomparable: an autobiographical epic and a comedie humaine for our times, which is both the portrait of an artist and the story of the birth of a nation, spanning several generations and moving with them from Russia, Lithuania, the Ukraine, to Jerusalem. Love and darkness are just two of the powerful forces that run through Amos Oz's extraordinary, moving story. He takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and '50s, and into the infernal marria...
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