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Palimpsest: A Memoir

Gore Vidal

Vidal onVidal - a great and supremely entertaining writer on a great and endlessly fascinating subjectPalimpsest is Gore Vidal's account of the first thirty-nine years of his life as a novelist, dramatist, critic, political activist and candidate, screenwriter,...

Julian

Gore Vidal

The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novelsJulian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the...

The City And The Pillar

Gore Vidal

A literary cause célèbre when first published in 1948, Gore Vidal's now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experienceJim Willard, former high-school athlete and clean-cut boy-next-door, is haunted by the memory of a romantic adolescent...

Myra Breckinridge And Myron

Gore Vidal

Everyone is talking about Myra Breckinridge - and everything you have heard about her is true'I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever possess.'So begins the irresistible testimony of the luscious instructor of Empathy and Posture at Buck Loner's Academy of Drama...

The Colour of Injustice

Lee Lawrence

The Arrogant Ape

Christine Webb

Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex of a natural hierarchy. Yet today many maintain that we are the most intelligent, virtuous, successful species that ever lived. This flawed thinking persuades us to exploit the earth at the expense of...

In the Time of Five Pumpkins

Alexander Mccall Smith

Book 26 in the multi-million copy bestselling and perennially adored No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency seriesThe rains are coming, but not just yet. When they do, there will be green shoots of growth throughout Botswana. Pumpkins will flourish - particularly those of Mma...

The Power and the Glory

Jonathan Wilson

The football World Cup is the most watched sporting event on the planet. It has become a global obsession: 211 nations initially entered the 2022 edition. It has been running for almost a century. Yet there is no comprehensive history of the tournament: based on fresh...