The final part of his tremendous Africa Trilogy, No Longer at Ease sees Chinua Achebe once again display why he is one of the seminal African voices of our time. Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role he finds that the way of government seems to be backhanders & corruption. Obi manages to resist the bribes that are offered to him, but when he falls in love with an unsuitable girl
- to the disapproval of his parents
- he sinks further into emotional & financial turmoil. The lure of easy money becomes harder to refuse, & Obi becomes caught in a trap he cannot escape. Showing a man lost in cultural limbo, & a Nigeria entering a new age of disillusionment, No Longer at Ease concludes Achebe`s remarkable trilogy charting three generations of an African community under the impact of colonialism, the first two volumes of which are Things Fall Apart & Arrow of God.

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Very impressive & truly international 551-page anthology of First World War literature with extracts from works by 47 writers from 20 different nations. All the famous names associated with WWI writing are there: Erich Maria Remarque, Siegfried Sassoon, Vera Brittain or Jaroslav Ha ...

From the slums of London to the riches of an Edwardian country house; from the hot, dark seams of a Yorkshire coalmine to the exposed terrors of the trenches, Adam Raine`s journey from boy to man is set against the backdrop of a society violently entering the modern world. Adam Raine is a boy cursed by misfortune. His impoverished childhood in the slums of Islington is brought to an end by a tragedy that sends him north to Scarsdale, a hard-living coalmining town where his father finds work as a union organizer. But it isn`t long before the escalating tensions between the miners & their employer, Sir John Scarsdale, explode with terrible consequences. In the aftermath, Adam meets Miriam, the Rector`s beautiful daughter, & moves into Scarsdale Hall, an opulent paradise compared with the life he has been used to before. But he makes an enemy of Sir John`s son, Brice, who subjects him to endless petty cruelties for daring to step above his station. When love & an Oxford education beckon, Adam feels that his life is finally starting to come together
- until the outbreak of war threatens to tear everything apart.
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No Man`s Land tells the story of George Monbiot`s journeys among some of the tribal peoples of East Africa, showing how they are confronting the forces which threaten to deprive both them & us of the life that civilization has tried to suppress. In northern Kenya he saw how bandits, equipped by the corrupt governments of both Kenya itself & some of its neighbours, have been massacring the nomads, driving the survivors into famine zones where first the cattle then the humans die. Further south he watched the open savannahs on which the nomads rely being divided up & reduced by ploughing. But he also saw that the nomads of East Africa are finding ways to survive. All nomads are opportunists, & the adaptability, the cultural flexibility that opportunism demands means that they are possibly better equipped than any other of the world`s traditional peoples to withstand dramatic change. ...

No Man`s Nightingale: the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell`s bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series. The woman vicar of St Peter`s Church may not be popular among the community of Kingsmarkham. But it still comes as a profound shock when she is found strangled in her vicarage. Inspector Wexford is retired, but he retains a relish for solving mysteries especially when they are as close to home as this one is. So when he`s asked whether he will assist on the case, he readily agrees. But why did the vicar die? & is anyone else in Kingsmarkham in danger? What Wexford doesn`t know is that the killer is far closer than he, or anyone else, thinks. ...

No book is more associated with the city of Glasgow than No Mean City. First published in 1935, it is the story of Johnnie Stark, son of a violent father & a downtrodden mother, the ` Razor King` of Glasgow`s pre-war slum underworld, the Gorbals. The savage, near-truth descriptions, the raw character portrayals, bring to life a story that is fascinating, authentic & convincing. ...

Jack ` No Middle Name` Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked & righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age. This is the first time all Lee Child`s shorter fiction featuring Jack Reacher has been collected into one volume. Read together, these twelve stories shed new light on Reacher`s past, illuminating how he grew up & developed into the wandering avenger who has captured the imagination of millions around the world. The twelve stories include a brand new novella, Too Much Time. The other stories in the collection are: Second Son James Penney`s New Identity Guy Walks Into a Bar Deep Down, High Heat Not a Drill Small Wars All of which have previously been published as ebook shorts. Added to these is every other Reacher short story that Child has written: Everyone Talks Maybe They Have a Tradition No Room at the Motel The Picture of the Lonely Diner ...

The untold story of Winston Churchill`s precarious finances
- & the most original & surprising book about Churchill to emerge for
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The untold story of Winston Churchill`s precarious finances
- & the most original & surprising book about Churchill to emerge for
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With the summer beckoning, life in France seems the ultimate dream for all of us rosbifs. But behind the sun, the wine, & the beautifully honey-coloured houses what is the reality of actually living in France? Based on her own experiences, those of her friends & of the many readers who write in to her Sunday Times column French Mistress, Powell tells the story of the daily passions in La Douce France warts & all in a fresh, fast & humorous narrative. ...