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The story reintroduces the Soviet improvisatore,Sergei Rozanov and Shimon Barash. We find Rozanov caught fast in a whirlpool of affections between mistress and wife; confused and struggling wildly for direction. Barash, by contrast a cheerful, womanising cynic, is treading carefully, well aware of his precarious foothold on the Soviet roundabout of power. Then there is the outsider: Lloyd George, the journalist from the West. He is the traveller in this foreign land, and he too must make choices. He must guess the riddle of Nadia Sakulin. Is she what she seems - A beautiful actress - or is her purpose more sinister? Is she a KGB agent out to torment and entrap him? Gradually, inevitably, the fine looping thread of Fate binds the men together and intertwines, creating parallels and songs that will be heard and echoed...

The White Hotel is an extraordinary, daring colossus of a work in which is seen a startling poetry of violence and redemption. Fuge and threnody, it interlaces history, lush sexuality, psychological truth, fantasy and the craving for brutality, in the case-history of Lisa Erdman, a patient of Freud's. And travelling through the intricate patterns of her being, the reader is sent on an odyssey that seeks refuge beyond the nightmare of the 20th century.

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After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorces, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guild , but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhyms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Luch become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the fautlines in their relationship.

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From the author of the world-famous Travis McGee thrillers, thirteen of John D. MacDonald's earliest and best crime and mystery stories brought together in one volume.
Written at the beginning of his career and originally published in American magazines only, these stories give us a taste of MacDonald's early achievements and show the range of his skill in the realm of mystery and thriller writing.

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Drawing on newly available material from the United States anc China, as well as from interviews with all major survivors, the author re-examines the week in 1972 when Nixon travelled to China. Appendix - The Communique; Notes; Bibliography; Index; 394 pages.

This is going to rank among the classic voyages in small wooden boats. Like a perfect pair of oars, the carefully wrought narrative and lyrical style whisk the reader along for all 500 miles -Mathew P Murphy, Editor, WoodenBoat

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Foreword by Dave Eggers, 1107 pages.

Incarcerated in a mental institution after attempting a form of self-immolation, David Hellman is engaged in a desperate attempt to thwart attempts to fix his identity. Hellman's only weapon is a scrapbook wherein he simultaneously writes and buries his self beneath scraps of newspaper articles. His disease is limited by he own omniscience - his ability to glimpse the world from many points of view.

This novel tells the tragic and compelling story of Gemmy Fairly, a white man who, after 16 years with the aborgines, finds his whiteness as unsettling among the hostilities of a pioneer community as the knowledge he brings with him of the aboriginal world.

Ranging over seventy years of Australian life, from Sydney's teeming King's Cross to the tranquil backwaters of the Hawkesbury River, it is remarkable novel of self-knowledge and lost innocence, of survival and witness.

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