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Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary
2007 || Paperback || Joseph Conrad || Penguin
A haunting Modernist masterpiece and the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's Oscar-winning film Apocalypse Now, Heart of Darkness explores the limits of human experience and the nightmarish realities of imperialism. Conrad's narrator Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz: dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities. Travelling upriver to the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obs...
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The Humbling
2024 || Paperback || PHILIP ROTH || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The HUMBLING, Roth's thirtieth book, is the shattering account of Simon Axler, one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, who has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance-told with Roth's inimitable urgency, bravura, and gravity.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
2008 || Paperback || George Orwell || Penguin
Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent ...
Never Let Me Go
|| Paperback || Kazuo Ishiguro || Faber & Faber
Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature.In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship an...
Christmas at Claridges
2013 || Paperback || Karen Swan || Macmillan
'This was where her dreams drifted to if she didn't blot her nights out with drink; this was where her thoughts settled if she didn't fill her days with chat. She remembered this tiny, remote foreign village on a molecular level and the sight of it soaked into her like water into sand, because this was where her old life had ended and her new one had begun.'Portobello - home to the world-famous street market, Notting Hill Carnival and Clem Alderton. She's the queen of the scene, the girl ever...