Product Description: “Kennedy’s prose is lively and assured.” —The New York Times Book Review A good man in a bad world, Jon Sigurdsson is fifty-nine and divorced, a senior civil servant in London who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work for a government engaged in unmentionable acts...read more

Product Description: A. L. Kennedy's riveting new story collection is a luscious feast of language that encompasses real estate and forlorn pets, adolescents and sixty-somethings, weekly liaisons and obsessive affairs, "certain types of threat and the odder edges of sweet things...read more

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From award-winning author A.L. Kennedy, an original Doctor Who novel featuring the beloved Fourth Doctor, as played by Tom Baker.“I shall make you the jewel at the heart of the universe.” Something distinctly odd is going on in Arbroath. It could be to do with golfers being dragged down into the bunkers at the Fetch Brothers’ Golf Spa Hotel, never to be seen again. It might be related to the strange twin grandchildren of the equally strange Mrs Fetch--owner of the hotel and fascinated with octopuses. It could be the fact that people in the surrounding area suddenly know what others are thinking, without anyone saying a word. Whatever it is, the Doctor is most at home when faced with the distinctly odd. With the help of Fetch Brothers’ Junior Receptionist Bryony, he’ll get to the bottom of things. Just so long as he does so in time to save Bryony from quite literally losing her mind, and the entire world from destruction. Because something huge, ancient and alien lies hidden beneath the ground and it’s starting to wake up…

Product Description: Packed with tips from bestselling and prize-winning authors, Novel Writing: A Writers' and Artists' Companion will give you all the practical advice you need to write and publish your novel. PART 1 provides an introduction to the forms and history of the novel and helps you plan and research your masterpiece, develop characters and compelling narratives and your own authorial voice...read more

Product Description: Time Trips is a unique collection of Doctor Who adventures from bestselling and award-winning writers including Joanne Harris, Trudi Canavan, Nick Harkaway, A.L. Kennedy and more. Taking you from ancient Alexandria to nameless planets in the far future, these tales are at turns funny, frightening, moving and thought-provoking — short stories that are bigger on the inside...read more

Product Description: A. L. Kennedy's riveting new story collection is a luscious feast of language that encompasses real estate and forlorn pets, adolescents and sixty-somethings, weekly liaisons and obsessive affairs, "certain types of threat and the odder edges of sweet things...read more

Product Description: From one of the U.K.’s most dazzling novelists — whom Richard Ford has called “a profound writer” — comes this daring new novel set in the unsteady, self-contained world of a luxury liner. While on a transatlantic trip with her soon-to-be-fiancé Derek, Elizabeth unexpectedly runs into ex-lover Arthur, with whom she shares a shady past: the pair once worked as traveling spiritual mediums who conned the vulnerable by pretending to contact the spirits of departed loved ones...read more

Product Description: From one of the U.K.’s most dazzling novelists — whom Richard Ford has called “a profound writer” — comes this daring new novel set in the unsteady, self-contained world of a luxury liner. While on a transatlantic trip with her soon-to-be-fiancé Derek, Elizabeth unexpectedly runs into ex-lover Arthur, with whom she shares a shady past: the pair once worked as traveling spiritual mediums who conned the vulnerable by pretending to contact the spirits of departed loved ones...read more

Product Description: Twice selected for Granta’s list of Best Young British Novelists, winner of the 2007 Costa Book Award for her acclaimed novel Day (“Day is a novel of extraordinary complexity”—The New York Review of Books), which was also chosen as one of New York magazine’s top ten books of the year—the internationally revered A...read more

Product Description: A New York Times Notable Book A San Francisco Chroncile Book of the Year Twice selected for Granta’s list of Best Young British Novelists and winner of the Costa Book Award, A. L. Kennedy returns with a not-to-be-missed addition to the canon of one of this generation’s most unique and inventive writers...read more

Product Description: This book is an edited and annotated version of the journals kept by A. L. Kennedy of The Times who was responsible for writing most of the editorials on European affairs between 1932 and 1939. They provide details of his meetings with Mussolini, Hitler and others, explain the relationship between The Times, the British Government and the Foreign Office, and provide an illuminating insight into the support for "appeasement" and the origins of the Second World War...read more

Product Description: Alfie Day, RAF airman and former World War II POW, never expected to survive the war. Now, five years later and more alone than ever, Alfie finds himself drawn to unearth those strange, passionate days by working as an extra on a POW film...read more

Hannah Luckraft finds an escape from her sales job, her strained relations with her younger brother, and her lonely and difficult life in her growing relationship with alcoholic Robert, as she looks to find happiness in an ultimate altered state.

Exploring the many faces of longing, a collection of short fiction by the author of Original Bliss presents twelve stories about adultery, sexual obsession, infidelity, and desire, in an anthology that includes 'A Bad Son' and the title story, about two lovers who confront their lusts amid the ruins of Rome. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Living in a community of writers on a small island off the coast of Wales, commercial writer Nathan Staples feels that he has lost touch with his creativity, his source of inspiration, his joy of living, and with wife and daughter and contrives to have his daughter, who no longer even recognizes him, brought to the island on a writing fellowship. By the author of Original Bliss. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

The internationally acclaimed author of Original Bliss chronicles the sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious events in a love affair between a young Scottish woman and a man who claims to be the ghost of Cyrano de Bergerac. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

The internationally acclaimed author of Original Bliss chronicles the sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious events in a love affair between a young Scottish woman and a man who claims to be the ghost of Cyrano de Bergerac. 17,500 first printing. Tour.

Explores the historic and present role of bullfighting in Spanish culture, examines the brutality of the sport from a spiritual aspect, and parallels the sport with the author's own suicide attempt and fascination with death. (view table of contents)

Trapped in a terrifying, abusive marriage, an emotionally numb Helen Brindle spends her life performing boring domestic chores in front of the TV, until she is drawn into the orbit of self-help guru Edward G. Gluck, who hides his own sadomasochistic obsession. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, released in 1943, is regarded as one of the masterpieces of British cinema. In this interpretation of the film, A.L. Kennedy finds it to be a complex and richly ambiguous dissection of what it means to be English, and what it is to be "at home"...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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