Jake's Thing

Author	Penelope Fitzgerald
ISBN	0006542565

On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the great river’s tides. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they cling to one another in a motley yet kindly society. There is...

Author	David Lodge
ISBN	0140133968

In this witty novel, Lodge engineers a confrontation between Robyn, a young, left-wing female literary theorist, and Vic, an older, conservative, senior manager type. There's a government initiative where Robyn is supposed to "shadow" Vic one day a week, an arrangement that initially neither of...

Author	William Boyd
ISBN	0375705023

An Ice-Cream War was the debut novel of William Boyd who would go on to be recognized as 'the finest storyteller of his generation' (Sebastian Faulks). It follows the fortunes of several wildly different characters - including an expat farmer and a young English aristocrat - as they are swept up in the...

Author	Madeleine St. John
ISBN	0786706791

Nicola only went to buy cigarettes and upon returning finds a stranger in her apartment. He looks like her live-in boyfriend, Jonathan, but he can't actually be the dependable known quantity whom Nicola loves that goes by the name of Jonathan. Can he? Before Nicola stands a man who is strong and adorable...

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Tom Sharpe

Il est d'une méchanceté inouïe et déteste la terre entière à commencer par sa propre famille ! Quel motif haineux peut donc bien pousser Lord Putrefact, l'un des plus riches industriels d'Angleterre et l'un des plus originaux, à inviter en sa demeure le jeune et virulent professeur Walden Yapp,...