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    The Gibson

    A BBC Radio 4 supernatural thriller

    Unabridged

    2 hours 56 min

    Robert Glenister stars in this time-hopping supernatural thriller set in (and under) Bath1999, and aspiring poet Saul Judd is living quietly in Bath with his wife Elise and son Thomas. But when he wins a competition he never intended to enter, he is drawn into a web of dark forces and mysterious events.What is the link between leprous Prince Bladud, founder of Bath; a Dark Ages scribe's prophetic ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Visit to Don Otavio

    A Mexican Journey

    In the mid-1940s, Sybille Bedford set off from Grand Central Station for Mexico, accompanied by her friend E., a hamper of food and drink (Virginia ham, cherries, watercress, a flute of bread, Portuguese rosé), books, a writing board, and paper. Her resulting travelogue captures the violent beauty of the country she visited.Bedford doesn’t so much describe Mexico as take the reader there—in second ... Read more

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  • The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

    From the Nobel Prize-winning author: "A capacious, funny, threatening novel" of wandering souls and political upheaval in 1930s Portugal ( The New York Times Book Review) .The year is 1936, and the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is establishing himself in Portugal, edging his country toward civil war. At the same time, Dr. Ricardo Reis has returned home to Lisbon after a long sojou... ... Read more

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  • The Collected Novels of Josè Saramago

    **This essential anthology presents thirteen acclaimed works by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Blindness—with an introduction by Ursula Le Guin.This collection, available exclusively in e-book form, brings together twelve novels (and one novella) of the great Portuguese writer José Saramago. From Saramago's early work, like the enchanting Baltasar & Blimunda and the controversial Gospel ... Read more

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  • El Filibusterismo

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    Translated by Leon Ma. Guerrero ...
    Few novels have made a more shattering impact on their society than El Filibusterismo - and its predecessor, Noli Me Tangere of Jose Rizal. And surely no writer has paid a higher penalty for self-expression. Rizal was executed by firing squad mainly because of these two books. Filipinos, inspired by Rizal, made the first nationalist revolution in Asia in 1896, established its first democratic ... Read more

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  • Unholy Crusade

    Series series Black Magic
    With an effort Adam came back to earth. This was no dream but really happening. Adam Gordon, the poor Scots lad who, through a number of strange vicissitudes, had made good, become a best-selling author and flown out to Mexico in search of a background for a new book, had got himself caught up in a conspiracy to overthrow the government and, dressed in the costume of a Toltec Prince, was about to ... Read more

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  • The Lawless Roads

    by Graham Greene ...
    "A singularly beautiful travel book" and an eyewitness account of religious and political persecution in Mexico from the author of The Power and the Glory ( New Statesman ).In 1938, Graham Greene, a burgeoning convert to Roman Catholicism, was commissioned to expose the anticlerical purges in Mexico by President Plutarco El as Calles. Churches had been destroyed, peasants held s... ... Read more

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    Series series Duke de Richleau
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    This is not a book about trains but about the variety of Spain.Bestselling author Christopher Howse makes ten great railway journeys that explore the interior of the peninsula, its astonishing landscapes and ancient buildings. The focus is the way the Spanish live now: their habits, streets, characters, stories – and quite a bit about their eating and drinking.Christopher Howse has been travelling ... Read more

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