The Sense of an Ending
ISBN : 9780099570332
Tony Webster and his dique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro - And Other Stories
ISBN : 9780099460923
Men and women of passion and action live, fight, question, love and die. From a haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro to brutal sensationalism in the bullring ; from rural America with its deceptive calm to the heart of war-ravaged Europe, this collection of stories depicts characters and events with intense power and realism.
Invisible Women - Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
ISBN : 9781784706289
IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE... Your phone is too big for your hand. Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body. In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured. IF ANY OF THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR, CHANCES ARE THAT YOU'RE A WOMAN. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces and the media, Invisible Women reveals how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population, often with disastrous consequences. Caroline Criado Perez brings together for the first time an impressive range of case studies, stories and new research from across the world that illustrate the hidden ways in which women are forgotten, and the profound impact this has on us all.
The Elephant Vanishes
ISBN : 9780099448754
When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset; a couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's; a woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden; an insomniac wife wakes up to a twilight world of semi-consciousness in which anything seems possible - even death. In every one of the stories that make up The Elephant Vanishes, Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal. He has a deadpan genius for dislocating realities to uncover the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.
The Testaments
ISBN : 9781784708214
The Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the regime AiIlk come face to face with the legendary, ruthless Aunt Lydia. But how far will each go for what she believes ?
