Search Results: Titles starting with B from Ivy Court Books

(Many colour & black and white photos, and maps throughout)
"An incredible tale that unfolds across the vastness of Africa's elephant rangelands. Iain and Oria have put together an amazing account which cannot fail to impress".
Richard Leakey

"Guaranteed to make the flesh creep and the skin crawl, a masterful novel about a mad, clanking fog-bound world".
Simon Winchester

'Bad Land is an uncommon book; uncommon in its conception and in its exquisite perceptiveness. It is the story of the last great migration of homesteaders to the barren plainsland of eastern Montana, and it is the story of their fate there. Raban is searching and compassionate, even mirthful, as captivated by his story as an African explorer. And he is at all times eloquent. His writer's zeal is the zeal of a convert to America, but his vision of those who wished to win the West but mostly lost it is unimpaired and true'.
Richard Ford

'Here is the Eco of The Name of the Rose... poised, mischievous and erudite, the fruit of extraordinary knowledge.'
WASHINGTON POST

As poet and critic and the author of a remarkable book on suicide (The Savage God), A. Alvarez is specially well equipped to explore the work of a dramatist whose prose he describes as tending constantly towards the condition of poetry, and whose subject is depression and despair.

Happily married with one-year-old twins, Ruth Picardie was only 32 when she was diagnosed as having breast cancer. With almost unbearable intensity she described the progress of her illness in a series of articles in the Observer. When Ruth died in September 1997, she was mourned by thousands who had never even met her.

Patrick Leigh Fermor was born in 1915 of English and Irish descent. After a stormy school career and his year-and-a-half journey on foot to Constantinople, he lived and travelled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago.
'Indescribably rich and beautiful..... a masterpiece' - Guardian

'Bolano's judgements are a joy to read. Between Parentheses is a treasure chest: filled with glittering jewels and fistfuls of gold. In these essays we hear Bolano's real voice'.
Nation

'Superbly evocative prose.... The novel's vision of Europe is acute and alive, vivid in its moral complexities'.
New York Times Book Review

SIGNED FIRST EDITION COPY: 'Shiva Naipaul'
(handwritten inscription: 'Dad. Happy Christmas Love Bidge. 1982'.)
Shiva Naipaul was born in 1945 and educated in Trinidad and at University College Oxford where he read classical Chinese. He was based in London but travelled widely in India, Africa, the Caribbean and the United States.
Naipaul died in 1985.
"Shiva Naipaul was one of those people who caused your heart to lift when he entered the room... in losing him, we have lost thirty years of untranscribed, unvarnished genius".
Martin Amis

Jose Saramago
WINNER OF THE 1998 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
'Dark, baroque and powerfully affecting... Beneath the savagery, the desperate emotions and ineffable cruelties, this dystopian satire has enough black humour to make it bearable'.
Financial Times

'Through all its dark and delightful twists and turns, The Book of Illusions is suffused with warmth and illuminated by its narrator's hard-won wisdom'.
Peter Carey

'This brilliant novel is compulsively told. Every sentence is taut with suspense'.
Spectator

(Sixteen pages of rare and original black & white photos)
With access to Williams' complete archive, including 43 volumes of diaries and hundreds of unseen letters - Stevens draws on exclusive interviews with his closest friends such as Barbara Windsor, Stanley Baxter, Michael Parkinson, Nicholas Parsons and many more.
The first full portrait of a star who was born brilliant.

'Edmund White has crossed The Catcher in the Rye with De Profundis, JD Salinger with Oscar Wilde, to create an extraordinary novel'.
The New York Times Review

"I live on Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa". So Hope Clearwater declares at the beginning of Wiliam Boyd's audacious and fascinating 1990 novel. What is she doing there, a young woman alone, far from her family in England? Why has Brazzaville Beach become her home?

'A Catholic is more capable of evil than anyone.'
Pinkie, a boy gangster in the pre-war Brighton underworld, is a Catholic dedicated to evil and damnation.

'Thoroughly enjoyable... a dazzling entertainment, a tour de force of historical imagination, a devastating analysis of America's first principals'
NEW YORK TIMES

"Isabel Fonseca's book is a passionate and dramatic defence of the defenceless... This beautifully written story speaks in a way of all who do not want to submit to the reverses of fortune, who seek their own place on earth".
Ryszard Kapuscinski
(Black & White photos/illustrations throughout)