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Natural Elements
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.95In this moving, layered novel of memory and family, celebrated author Richard Mason tells the story of a mother and daughter, one caught in the past, one racing toward the future. Joan is eighty years old, a gifted amateur pianist who can no longer play because of her arthritic hands. Joan?s daughter, Eloise, is an ambitious hedge fund manager who... more...
The Drowning People
Grand Central Publishing 2008; US$ 9.99It is a cold afternoon in winter. An old man sits in a room high above the sea, watching the sun set. It is twenty-four hours since the death of his wife at Seton Castle, the home they had shared for more than forty years. And as it grows dark, he tries to make sense of a life only recently understood; and to explain how he, by no means a violent man,... more...
Cambridge Minds
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 34.00An introduction, written by leading authorities, to many of the major modern achievements of Cambridge University. more...
The God of Spinoza
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 34.00Brings together Spinoza's philosophical thinking and his conclusions about God and religion. more...
History of a Pleasure Seeker
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.95From the acclaimed author of The Drowning People (?A literary sensation? ? The New York Times Book Review) and Natural Elements (?A magnum opus? ? The New Yorker ), an opulent, romantic coming-of-age drama set at the height of Europe?s belle époque, written in the grand tradition with a lightness of touch that is wholly modern and original. ... more...
The Drowning People
Orion 2011; US$ 20.83Written with wisdom beyond the author's years, THE DROWNING PEOPLE is both a trenchant portrayal of the British upper class and a passionate story about the limits of friendship, the legacy of family and the volatile power of first love. more...
The Lighted Rooms
Orion 2010; US$ 20.83Joan McAllistair is about to embark on the 'Trip of a Lifetime' with her daughter Eloise; a journey back to her childhood South Africa and the family homestead in the old Boer Republic of the Orange Free State.As their stories unravel, Joan takes increasing refuge in the landscape of her mind - in journeys to her own past. She also finds an unexpected... more...
History of a Pleasure Seeker
Orion 2011; US$ 20.83'The adventures of adolescence had taught Piet Barol that he was extremely attractive to most women and to many men. He was old enough to be pragmatic about this advantage...' Piet Barol is an alluring and intelligent young man who has escaped his drab existence, living with his father in the university town of Leiden, and moved to Amsterdam to take... more...
History of a Pleasure Seeker
Orion 2011; Not Available'The adventures of adolescence had taught Piet Barol that he was extremely attractive to most women and to many men. He was old enough to be pragmatic about this advantage...' Piet Barol is an alluring and intelligent young man who has escaped his drab existence, living with his father in the university town of Leiden, and moved to Amsterdam to take... more...
The Lighted Rooms
Orion 2010; Not AvailableJoan McAllistair is about to embark on the 'Trip of a Lifetime' with her daughter Eloise; a journey back to her childhood South Africa and the family homestead in the old Boer Republic of the Orange Free State.As their stories unravel, Joan takes increasing refuge in the landscape of her mind - in journeys to her own past. She also finds an unexpected... more...









