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The English Patient

Michael Ondaatje

Contemporary Fiction

With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatjes Booker Prize-winning novel traces the inte

booker, film, popular, ww2

Ragtime

E L Doctorow

Contemporary Fiction

Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtim

america, film, historical

Point Counter Point

Aldous Huxley

Contemporary Fiction

Aldous Huxleys lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both

film, humanism, mysticism

The Devils of Loudun

Aldous Huxley

Contemporary Fiction

In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt

catholicism, film, mysticism

The Magus

John Fowles

Contemporary Fiction

This daring literary thriller, rich with eroticism and suspense, is one of John Fowles best-loved and bestselli

film, postmodern

Breakfast on Pluto

Patrick McCabe

Contemporary Fiction

Breakfast on Pluto became a #1 bestseller in Ireland, stayed on the bestseller list for months, and was nominat

booker, film, ira, ireland, lgbt

Slaughterhouse-Five

or The Children’s Crusade

Kurt Vonnegut

Contemporary Fiction

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American clas

bestseller, didactic, film, postmodern, ptsd, satire, ww2

Rosemarys Baby

Ira Levin

Contemporary Fiction

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, an ordinary young couple, settle into a New York City apartment, unaware that the e

bestseller, film, horror, popular, satan

The Moronic Inferno

And Other Visits to America

Martin Amis

Non-fiction

At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by Ame

critic, culture, film

Empire of the Sun

J G Ballard

Contemporary Fiction

Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a deep strength greater than all

film, japan, newwave, ww2

The Last Emperor

Edward Behr

History

The Last Emperor is a 1987 biopic about the life of Puyi, the last Emperor of China.

china, film

The French Lietenants Woman

John Fowles

Contemporary Fiction

The scene is the village of Lyme Regis on Dorsets Lyme Bay…the largest bite from the underside of Englands ou

film, historical, postmodern

The Butcher Boy

Patrick McCabe

Contemporary Fiction

This is a precisely crafted, often lyrical, portrait of the descent into madness of a young killer in small-tow

alchoholism, booker, film, insanity, ireland

Solaris

Stanislaw Lem

Science Fiction

When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds a painful,

collection, film, polish, space

Cromwell

John Buchan

Biography

Buchan sets out to redress popular opinion of this English soldier and statesman. His biography achieves that a

england, film, history, newmodelarmy

Heretics of Dune

Dune #5

Frank Herbert

Science Fiction

With more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herberts magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievement

dune, film, scifi

God Emperor of Dune

Dune #4

Frank Herbert

Science Fiction

More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in DUNE. Only one link survives with

dune, film, scifi

Children of Dune

Dune #3

Frank Herbert

Science Fiction

The desert planet of Arrakis has begun to grow green and lush. The life-giving spice is abundant. The nine-year

dune, film, scifi

Dune

Dune #1

Frank Herbert

Science Fiction

Set in the far future amidst a sprawling feudal interstellar empire where planetary dynasties are controlled by

dune, film, hugo, nebula, scifi

Dune Messiah

Dune #2

Frank Herbert

Science Fiction

Dune Messiah continues the story of the man Muaddib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to completion the c

dune, film, scifi

Chapter House Dune

Dune #6

Frank Herbert

Science Fiction

The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dunes powers, have

dune, film, scifi

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Contemporary Fiction

Humbert Humbert – scholar, aesthete and romantic – has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze,

erotic, film, freud, individualism

High-Rise

J G Ballard

Contemporary Fiction

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and c

dystopia, film, post-apocalyptic, scifi

Nicholas and Alexandra

Robert K Massie

Biography

In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extra

bestseller, film, rasputin, russia, tsar

Serpico

Peter Maas

Non-fiction

The 1960s was a time of social and generational upheaval felt with particular intensity in the melting pot of N

bestseller, film, truecrime

The Odyssey

Homer

Classic Fiction

Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundere

ancient, classical, epic, film, greek, myth, troy