The Sea, the sea, Iris MurdochWhen Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her marriage. His equilibrium is further disturbed when his eccentric friends all decide to come and keep his company and Charles finds his seaside idyll severely threatened by his past.

this is Carol Ann Duffy at her beguiling best

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight

seventeen years ago

How to be fair

But when he sets out to find the author’s other works

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As a professor at the University of Pennsylvania

So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention—and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong

who must face the perilous condition of her empire and devastating personal losses

but the imagination" (Washington Post Book World)

Du Bois posed a probing question in his classic The Souls of Black Folk: "How does it feel to be a problem

The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake claim on their matriarch’s massive fortune