Literary

On the outskirts of Vivo, there is a cabin at the bottom of an abandoned quarry, barely visible from the roadside. With the help of his four best friends, Filo moves into this secluded place to write his first novel. He's convinced doing so will change his life and save him from a soul-destroying career as an accountant. The quarry, however, might not be as abandoned as it seems ... What or who will Filo discover there? And what price will he pay for his art?

Author: Sven Axelrad

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Welcome to Vivo, where the only cemetery is run by old Mateus and his dog, God. Mateus's eyes aren't so good these days, which is why he has been burying bodies in the wrong graves, and also why, while out walking with God, he trips over a young homeless girl. On a whim, Mateus decides to appoint the girl as his apprentice. 

Author: Sven Axelrad

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Martin Amis’s Yellow Dog is a biting, high-octane satire that dissects the toxic pulse of 21st-century celebrity culture. When a senseless act of violence transforms a quiet family man into an unpredictable stranger, he becomes caught in a labyrinth of tabloid vultures, criminal underworlds, and royal scandal. A provocative, stylistically brilliant, and darkly hilarious examination of masculinity, morality, and the media’s obsession with the obscene.

Author: Martin Amis

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** Front cover has two parts - the inside part is completely detached - see photos. Inside pages are tanned but clean and legible.

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Set against the turbulent backdrop of 1960s Indonesia, this historical drama follows two orphaned brothers torn apart by destiny. While Johan is raised in the luxury of Kuala Lumpur by a wealthy Malaysian couple, his younger brother, Adam, grows up in a simple Indonesian coastal town, adopted by a gentle Dutch painter named Karl. As political unrest ignites and post-colonial hostility sweeps the nation, Karl is abruptly arrested by military soldiers. Armed with determination, sixteen-year-old Adam embarks on a desperate, high-stakes quest to find his father. 

Author: Tash Aw

**First few pages have light water stains at the top, that slightly indented them, no waving is present. 

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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga is a gripping, darkly comic masterpiece that exposes the raw underbelly of modern India. Written as a series of letters from Balram Halwai—a poor village boy turned successful Bangalore entrepreneur—this novel charts his thrilling, unconventional rise to the top. To escape the "Rooster Coop" of poverty and servitude, Balram must navigate a corrupt system and make a desperate, shocking choice.

Author: Aravind Adiga

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Set in 1973 Cape Town, this exceptional debut novel follows eleven-year-old Marnus, a boy growing up in a prominent, elite Afrikaner military family. When a mysterious visitor named Mr. Smith arrives at their home, a quiet but irreversible shift shatters Marnus's world, exposing a deep undercurrent of hypocrisy and disillusionment. Serving as a poignant indictment of apartheid's complex realities, this deeply moving work safely secures its place alongside the finest masterpieces of South African literature.

Author: Mark Behr

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A breathtaking Victorian epic of friendship, survival, and exotic wonders that was shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize. In Jamrach's Menagerie, Carol Birch brings 1857 London brilliantly to life through young Jaffy Brown, who is plucked from the jaws of an escaped tiger by the legendary exotic animal collector, Mr. Jamrach. Soon, Jaffy is swept onto a high-seas voyage bound for the Dutch East Indies on a treacherous mission that will push his friendships, sanity, and will to survive to their absolute limits. A beautifully written, fast-paced literary adventure.

Author: Carol Birch

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Baruch Kotler is a disgraced Israeli politician. When he refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand, his opponents expose his affair with a younger woman. Seeking refuge, he and his mistress flee to Yalta—the very place where he spent time fifty years earlier in a Soviet gulag. But Yalta has changed, and Kotler's past is not as buried as he thought. When he is unexpectedly confronted with the man who denounced him to the KGB decades ago, he is forced to reckon with both his history and his present. 

Author: David Bezmozgis

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Gabriel Jacoby can't get to sleep. In fact, he can't anywhere at all, either in his Triumph Dolomite or his life. Everything around him, from his large collection of coffee-machines to his balding Bradford-born flatmate, is breaking down. Not that Gabriel is bothered; he's too busy being in love with his intensely happily married brother's wife. Which is why Gabriel chooses to waste all his time - because he knows that whatever else he might achieve, it won't be happiness. There's no way there, when you're in love with your brother's wife. Unless you suddenly remember your brother's wife has a sister.

Author: David Baddiel

**Back of dustjacket has a water stain - book not affected 

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A Booker Prize-winning literary masterpiece from Pat Barker, exploring the dirty, glorious, and horrifying reality of the First World War. This heart-rending omnibus brings together Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, and The Ghost Road. Seen through the eyes of army psychologist William Rivers and damaged soldier Billy Prior, it chronicles the final two years of the war. As Rivers struggles to heal traumatized men—including the poet Siegfried Sassoon—only to see them sent straight back to the front, Barker crafts a devastating vision of an entire generation brutalized by the horrors of the trenches.

Author: Pat Barker

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Anna Blair, author of best-selling Tea at Miss Cranston's, has written 22 short stories, with very different settings: some in her native Scotland, some in Malaysia where she lived for a few years and others from North America where she has grandchildren. Some of her Scottish stories have a historical context, but most of the stories were prompted by some incident or encounter which left her wondering what might have led up to it, or what might follow. The stories are often deeply touching, but her gentle sense of humour prevents them becoming sentimental. The varied geographical and cultural settings add a richness to the collection.

Author: Anna Blair

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Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life, but finds this impossible in a house brimming with presences, some ghostly, some undeniably human. Memories, anxiety for the future and more particularly for his beloved but troubled daughter, conspire to distract him from his dreaming retirement.

Author: John Banville

**Note the remainder mark. Otherwise excellent condition.

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St Petersburg, 1914. Dr Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in a murder. But he is preoccupied with two disturbing new patients: Anna Petrovna, the troubled society beauty with whom he is inappropriately falling in love, and Avrom Rozental, the brilliant chess master, who is due to play the most important competition of his life but is on the verge of a breakdown. With the city rife with speculation and alarm, Spethmann must rely on his wits if he wants to save those he loves and escape from a Zugzwang of passion and politics.

Author: Ronan Bennett

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22 Short stories, with very different settings: some in her native Scotland, some in Malaysia where she lived for a few years and others from North America where she has grandchildren. Some of her Scottish stories have a historical context, but most of the stories were prompted by some incident or encounter which left her wondering what might have led up to it, or what might follow. The stories are often deeply touching, but her gentle sense of humour prevents them becoming sentimental. The varied geographical and cultural settings add a richness to the collection.

Author: Anna Blair

**Note damage to back cover and back page. Otherwise still good.

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