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'Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, you are safe.' • This is the story of Hana and her little sister Emi, who are part of an island community of haenyo, women who make their living from free diving off the southernmost tip of Korea. One day Hana sees a Japanese soldier heading for where Emi is guarding the day's catch on the beach. Saving her sister, Hana herself is captured and forced to become a "comfort woman" in a Japanese military brothel • Moving between Hana in 1943 and Emi as an elderly woman today, White Chrysanthemum sheds light on a devastating history - and how the bond of sisterhood is strong enough to endure the evils of war • Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world

Winner of the Writers' Guild Award for Best Debut Novel • Longlisted for the Authors' Club First Novel Award • 'Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, you are safe.' • Hana and her little sister Emi are part of an island community of haenyo, women who make their living from diving deep into the sea off the southernmost tip of Korea • One day Hana sees a Japanese soldier heading for where Emi is guarding the day’s catch on the beach. Her mother has told her again and again never to be caught alone with one. Terrified for her sister, Hana swims as hard as she can for the shore • So begins the story of two sisters suddenly and violently separated by war. Moving between Hana in 1943 and Emi as an old woman today, White Chrysanthemum takes us into a dark and devastating corner of history — and two women whose love for one another is strong enough to triumph over the evils of war

Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot, with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire. Only the tyranny of their landlady, the imposing Mrs Bhoolabhoy, threatens to upset the quiet rhythm of their days • Both funny and deeply moving, Staying On is a unique, engrossing portrait of the end of an empire and of a forty-year love affair

Midnight, New Year’s Eve, 1976. Nine lives are about to be changed forever • Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, heirs to one of New York's greatest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by the punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbour – and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do with a shooting in Central Park on New Year’s Eve • Then, on July 13th, 1977, the lights go out

In a quiet English suburb, a love affair ignites. For our nameless narrator, Louise is the last in a long line of explosive passions, but the first to have broken their heart. With Louise's husband, Elgin, blocking love's course, their affair is doomed to unravel - until, that is, a terrible choice must be made • With its witty and masterful prose, Written on the Body takes the reader on a beguiling and defying exploration of love and its physical forms

A unique and captivating collection of Hemingway's writings on war, including extracts from his unparalleled war novels, some classic short stories, an extract from his only full-length play and a range of his war journalism • Ernest Hemingway witnessed many of the seminal conflicts of the twentieth century, as a Red Cross ambulance driver during the First World War and during his twenty-five years as a war correspondent. This edition offers an unparalleled portrayal of the physical and psychological impact of war and its aftermath. It contains extracts from A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls, some of Hemingway’s very best short stories, his only full-length play, The Fifth Column as well as selections from his wartime journalism. Hemingway on War represents the author's penetrating chronicles of perseverance and defeat, courage and fear, and love and loss in the midst of modern warfare

"Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?" • From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities. The psychologists would call it folie a deux • Strangers on a Train was Patricia Highsmith's first novel, and adapted into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock

We are poised on the edge of discovery in particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and cosmology (the study of the largest), and when these breakthroughs come, they will revolutionise what we think we know about the universe, and the modern world • Lisa Randall guides us through the latest ideas, charting the thrilling progress we have made in understanding the universe – from Galileo and Newton to Einstein and the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the Higgs boson. Yet it's about more than just physics - Randall explains how we decide what questions to ask; how risk, beauty, creativity and truth play a role in scientific thinking; and how answering the big questions will ultimately tell us who we are and where we came from

'As a novel it stands very high, but it is in its qualities as a "social document" that its great value lies' Times Literary Supplement • In Hanky Park, near Salford, Harry and Sally Hardcastle grow up in a society preoccupied with grinding poverty, exploited by bookies and pawnbrokers, bullied by petty officials and living in constant fear of the dole queue and the Means Test. His love affair with a local girl ends in a shotgun marriage, and, disowned by his family, Harry is tempted by crime. Sally, meanwhile, falls in love with Larry Meath, a self-educated Marxist. But Larry is a sick man and there are other more powerful rivals for her affection

The contract killer • Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you 'fix' people for a living - terminally - it's hard to get close to anyone • The gangster's wife • Now he's finally met the woman of his dreams. But she's his boss's wife. And Olav's just been hired to kill her • Two very big problems

Пятнадцатилетний Кафка Тамура сбегает из дома, преследуемый мрачным пророчеством отца • Простая жизнь Накаты, так и не оправившегося от странного недуга детства и занимающегося поиском пропавших кошек, переворачивается с ног на голову • Их раскрывающиеся параллельно истории фантасмагоричны: кошки разговаривают с людьми, рыбы падают с неба, сутенёр замогильного образа даёт полюбоваться цитирующей Гегеля ночной фекй, в лесу прячутся солдаты времён Второй мировой, ни капли не постаревшие за прошедшие десятилетия. Не обходится и без жестокого убийства, но неизвестной остаётся личность как самого преступника, так и его жертвы. И это лишь одна из загадок, из которых складывается "Кафка на пляже" - элегантный и фантастический образец литературного искусства

White skin, green eyes, red hair... Blackass • Furo Wariboko - born and bred in Lagos - wakes up on the morning of his job interview to discover he has turned into a white man. As he hits the city streets running, still reeling from his new-found condition, Furo finds the dead ends of his life open out before him. As a white man in Nigeria, the world is seemingly his oyster - except for one thing: despite his radical transformation, Furo's ass remains robustly black • Funny, fierce, inventive and daringly provocative - this is a very modern satire, with a sting in the tail