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Fourteen-year-old Gyuri's father has been called up for labour service. Arriving at the family timber store he witnesses with nonchalance and boredom his father sign over the business to the firm's book-keeper. Two months later he finds himself assigned to a "permanent workplace", but within a fortnight he is unexpectedly pulled off a bus....

A boisterous novel which races through the major events of the 20th century. Once in the hand of Attila; then in King Arthur's possession; looted by the Nazis; seized by the Soviets - Excalibur is the flashing blade that hangs over the fates of men and women caught up in the chaos of history....

One stormy February afternoon, Clara Marshall collected her daughters, six-year old Lorraine and five-year-old Janine, from school. They were never seen again. Richard Marshall, Clara's heartbroken husband, had discovered his wife was having an affair with an Australian backpacker and believed her to have run away with him, taking the children with...

Ever since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, "The Sound and the Fury" has been considered one of the key novels of this century. Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives, "The Sound and the Fury" explores intense, passionate family relationships where there is no love, only...

Vonnegut demonstrates his] trademark gift for quasi-ironic detachment in the face of war's insanity...

In A.D. 922 Ibn Fadlan, the representative of the ruler of Baghdad, City of Peace, crosses the Caspian sea and journeys up the valley of the Volga on a mission to the king of Saqaliba. Before he arrives, he meets with Buliwyf, a powerful Viking chieftain who is summoned by his besieged relatives to the North. Buliwyf must return to Scandinavia and...