What a Carve Up!

Author	Keith Waterhouse
ISBN	0140017836

Billy Liar captures brilliantly the claustrophobic atmosphere of a small town. It tells the story of Billy Fisher, a Yorkshire teenager unable to stop lying - especially to his three girlfriends. Trapped by his boring job and working-class parents, Billy finds that his only happiness lies in grand...

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	Thomas Love Peacock
ISBN	1406908452

Excerpt: ...mould, and covering the whole with an elegant stratum of turf. Squire Headlong caught with avidity at this suggestion; and, as he had always a store of gunpowder in the house, for the accommodation of himself and his shooting visitors, and for the supply of a small battery of cannon, which...

Author	Nigel Williams
ISBN	0571173667

Wife: "What are you reading?"
Me: "The Wimbledon Poisoner. It's about a man trying to poison his wife."
This is a black comedy out of Britain, which some passages I found laugh out funny but others might find cringe-worthy. This confirms to me I'm a little bit warped.
I concede this novel...

Author	Iain Sinclair
ISBN	0141014857

Downriver is a brilliant London novel by its foremost chronicler, Iain Sinclair.

WINNER OF THE ENCORE AWARD AND THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE

The Thames runs through Downriver like an open wound, draining the pain and filth of London and its mercurial inhabitants. Commissioned...

Author	Diego Cugia
ISBN	8804506083

Un dj italiano, Jack Folla, rinchiuso ad Alcatraz in attesa di salire sulla sedia elettrica, diffonde nell'etere musica e parole. E dai microfoni di un carcere conduce una battaglia contro l'ipocrisia e la mediocrità, lancia un appello per il cambiamento, soprattutto ai giovani. Ha poco tempo e...

Author	Pier Vittorio Tondelli
ISBN	8807809796

Altri libertini ha avuto fin dagli inizi una vita avventurosa: pubblicato nel 1980, sequestrato per oscenità e poi assolto dal tribunale ('con formula ampia'), è stato contemporaneamente giudicato dalla critica una delle opere migliori degli ultimi anni e ha imposto Tondelli tra i nuovi autori...

Author	Raymond Queneau
ISBN	0811209458

At his death in 1976, Raymond Queneau was one of France's most eminent men of letters – novelist, poet, essayist, editor, scientist, mathematician, and, more to the point, pataphysician. And only a pataphysician nurtured lovingly on surrealist excess could have dreamed up The Blue Flowers, Queneau's...

Author	David Peace
ISBN	0571221742

David Peace makes a powerful, angry, ominous, and forbidding monument of a novel of the ’84 UK Miner’s strike (which was an equivalent labor defeat to the ’85 Pan Am strike, but more violent and filled with drama.). If you aren’t in the right frame of mind, this frantic and wonderful read might...

Author	Stefano Benni
ISBN	8807812797

Un'oscura e crudele profezia che appare sui muri, scritta da una mano invisibile, incombe sulla ricca e corrotta terra di Gladonia.
Anno 1990 e rotti: Memorino, Lucifero a Alì, gli spiriti più ribelli dell'orfanotrofio dei Celestini, fuggono per poter rappresentare Gladonia al Campionato...

Author	A.L. Kennedy
ISBN	0375707476

From the prodigiously talented A. L. Kennedy comes a flamboyantly stylish and fiercely emotional novel about fathers and daughters, creation and self-destruction, and love’s paradoxical power to heal its most devastated victims. One such victim is Nathan Staples, a writer whose hilarious contempt...

Author	Maurizio Maggiani
ISBN	8807814226

Saverio è figlio di un fornaio anarchico di Alessandria d'Egitto, cresciuto con la passione della libertà e con la nostalgia per il paese degli antenati. La morte del padre lo costringe ad affrontare la sua confusa identità, le sue radici. Parte per un suo viaggio di iniziazione, dal deserto, alla...

Author	Anthony Powell
ISBN	1557132844

Afternoon Men follows the trivial encounters and idle pastimes of the social set through William Atwater. With a glee in upending pretense that rivals the works of Max Beerbohm and Evelyn Waugh, Powell attacks artistic pretension, aristocratic jadedness, and the dark side of the glamorous life.Afternoon...

Author	Daniel Pennac
ISBN	2070403688

Transformé en objet d'adoration universelle par la reine Zabo, éditeur de génie, Benjamin Malaussène va payer au prix fort toutes les passions déchaînées par la parution d'un best-seller dont il est censé être l'auteur.
Vol de manuscrit, vengeance, passion de l'écriture, frénésie...

Author	Arnold Bennett
ISBN	0140009973

Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was a British writer. He went to work for his father but was unhappy working for his father and earning very little money. The theme of parental miserliness occurs in his works. At 21 he went to London to clerk for a solicitor. He then began working for a magazine called Women....

Author	Patrick McGrath
ISBN	0679776214

Do you know the filthiest dirty joke ever told? It begins with a family of entertainers walking into a talent agent's office, who asks them to perform their act; the joke's midsection depends on the teller, who then ad-libs the most vile, lewd and disgusting things imaginable: murder, rape, pedophilia,...

Author	Andrew O'Hagan
ISBN	0156029677

Growing up on the Scottish Isle of Bute, Maria Tambini is a young girl with dreams of escape from her Italian immigrant family. When her amazing singing voice wins her a talent show at the tender age of thirteen, she is whisked off to London and instant stardom.

But even as Maria is celebrating...

Author	Carlo Fruttero
ISBN	8804370386

Nella Pineta della Gualdana, proprietà privata, si nascondono 153 villette, abitate per lo più durante le vacanze estive, Ma una moderata affluenza si registra anche durante l'inverno e per alcuni residenti stabili la pineta rappresenta un rifugio, un nascondiglio fuori dal mondo, sia pure dotato...

Author	Sergio Rizzo
ISBN	8817017140

Aerei di Stato che volano 37 ore al giorno, pronti al decollo per portare Sua Eccellenza anche a una festa a Parigi. Palazzi parlamentari presi in affitto a peso d'oro da scuderie di cavalli. Finanziamenti pubblici quadruplicati rispetto a quando furono aboliti dal referendum. "Rimborsi" elettorali...

Author	Stan Barstow
ISBN	0140016694

All about love, lust, and loneliness, the book introduces Vic Brown, a young working-class Yorkshireman. Vic is attracted to the beautiful but demanding Ingrid, and as their relationship grows and changes, he comes to terms the hard way with adult life and what it really means to love. The influence...

Author	Gipi
ISBN	8876180621

S. racconta storie. S. racconta del bombardamento di Pisa, ma anche di quando è diventato vecchio, mescolando i ricordi e passando indifferentemente a parlare della propria infanzia. S. parla con il figlio e il tempo sembra cancellarsi. S. avrà un’esperienza emozionante lunga un giorno e questo...

Author	Julian Maclaren-Ross
ISBN	0141187115

An interesting novel set in 1939 in the months before the start of war. It opens a window of an England now mostly disappeared; landladies, jobs easy to get and lots of smoking!!. However the themes of love and loss are eternal. The shadow of war is ever present. The main character isn't likeable but the...