Author: Annabel Lyon ISBN: 9780307356208 Pages: 304 Description: On the orders of his boyhood friend, now King Philip of Macedon, Aristotle postpones his dreams of succeeding Plato as leader of the Academy in Athens and reluctantly arrives in the Macedonian capital of Pella to tutor the king’s adolescent sons. An early illness has left one…
Author: David Leavitt ISBN: 9781582345734 Pages: 352 Description: David Leavitt’s extraordinary first novel, now reissued in paperback, is a seminal work about family, sexual identity, home, and loss. Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip, who realizes he must…
Author: Ken Follett ISBN: 9780525946892 Pages: 420 Description: Ken Follett follows his bestsellers Jackdaws and Code to Zero with an extraordinary novel of early days of World War II…It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish…
Author: G.K. Chesterton ISBN: 9781576468555 Pages: 96 Description: The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G.K. Chesterton first published in 1905. Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a “queer trade”). – Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free…
Author: Martin Booth ISBN: 9780553816723 Pages: 384 Description: Martin Booth died in February 2004, shortly after finishing the book that would be his epitaph – this wonderfully remembered, beautifully told memoir of a childhood lived to the full in a far-flung outpost of the British Empire… An inquisitive seven-year-old, Martin Booth found himself with the…