An elderly butler is on a five-day motoring trip through the West Country in the 1950s. The climax of his journey is to be a reunion with his former housekeeper. This 1989 Booker Prize-winner attempts to capture a period in British history and draw a portrait of a man in old age.

Remains of the Day, The (Faber Classics)

Literature & Fiction

ISHIGURO, Kazuo

Literary

FABER ET FABER

In the Country of Last Things

AUSTER, PAUL.

'A powerful, stirring read.' The Times 
'Typically brilliant . I loved it.' Adrian McKinty 
'The most stone-cold crime novel of 2021.' CrimeReads\nTokyo, July 1949. President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan, goes missing. American Detective Harry Sweeney leads the missing person's investigation.\nFifteen years later, the city prepares for the 1964 Olympics and the global spotlight. Hideki Murota, a private investigator, is given a case which forces him to confront a crime he's been hiding from.\nOver twenty years on, late 1988. The Emperor Showa is dying. Donald Reichenbach, an ageing American, knows the final reckoning of the greatest mystery of the Showa Era is down to him.\n'I was knocked out, transported and lost in David Peace's Tokyo . an extraordinary novel.' Hideo Yokoyama\n'Many novels are hyped as "polyphonic", but Peace's now complete Tokyo trilogy truly is, brilliantly summoning forth multiple voices in the soundscape of a city gripped by seismic change.' Guardian, Book of the Day

Tokyo Redux

PEACE, David

This new edition brings together all of Beckett's dramatic writings for radio, television and film, offering works which range from eloquent comic naturalism to an eviscerated and pared-down symbolism. Above all, Beckett found his unique uses for the radio-play, a medium 'for voices not bodies', compacted of speech, sound and silence - and the plays in this volume intently explore the resources and limits of the sound-stage. My father, back from the dead, to be with me. (Pause.) As if he hadn't died. (Pause.) No, simply back from the dead, to be with me, in this strange place. (Pause.) Can he hear me? (Pause.) Yes, he must hear me. (Pause.) To answer me? (Pause.) No, he doesn't answer me. (Pause.) Just be with me. (Pause.) That sound you hear is the sea. (Pause. Louder.) I say that sound you hear is the sea, we are sitting on the strand. (Pause.) I mention it because the sound is so strange, so unlike the sound of the sea, that if you didn't see what it was you wouldn't know what it was. (Pause.). Hooves! Contents: All That Fall, Embers, Words and Music, Eh Joe, Quad, Film, ...but the clouds..., Ghost Trio, Nacht und Träume, Rough for Radio I, Rough for Radio II, Cascando, The Old Tune Preface and Notes by Everett Frost

ALL THAT FALL AND OTHER PLAYS FOR RADIO AND SCREEN

Humor & Entertainment

BECKETT,SAMUEL

Movies

Kavenna, Joanna

BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA

KUREISHI, HANIF

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster’s fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.Three different narrators tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights to the Left Bank of Paris to a remote island in the Caribbean. It is a book of youthful rage, unbridled sexual hunger, and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us into the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, between authorship and identity, to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as “one of America’s most spectacularly inventive writers.” 

Invisible

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. - Endymion.

JOHN KEATS

KEATS, JOHN

Poetry

STRANGENESS IN MY MIND

PAMUK, ORHAN

Paperback. Pages: 320 Language: English Publisher:. FABER AND FABER I was looking for a quiet place to die Someone recommended Brooklyn. and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain ... So begins Paul Austers remarkable new novel. The Brooklyn Follies. Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000. it tells the story of Nathan and Tom. an uncle and nephew double-act. One in remission from lung cancer. divorced. and estranged from his only daughter. the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career. and. indeed. from life in general. Having accidentally ended up in the same Brooklyn neighbourhood. they discover a community teeming with life and passion. When Lucy. a little girl who refuses to speak. comes into their lives. there is suddenly a bridge from their pasts that offers them the possibility of red...

The Brooklyn Follies

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

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