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The second season of the US sci-fi drama that follows the attempts
of Lawkeeper Joshua Nolan (Grant Bowler) to keep the peace in the
futureworld frontier town of Defiance. In the near future, Earth's
landscape has been decimated after years of war with the Votans, an
alien race seeking a new home after their own star system was
destroyed in a stellar collision. With a ceasefire now in effect,
an itinerant Nolan returns to the ruins of his former home town of
St. Louis, now known as Defiance, accompanied by his adopted alien
daughter Irisa (Stephanie Leonidas), to help keep the former
warring factions apart. The episodes are: 'The Opposite of
Hallelujah', 'In My Secret Life', 'The Cord and the Ax', 'Beasts of
Burden', 'Putting the Damage On', 'This Woman's Work', 'If You
Could See Her Through My Eyes', 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem',
'Painted from Memory', 'Bottom of the World', 'Doll Parts', 'All
Things Must Pass' and 'I Almost Prayed'.
In a cruel twist of irony, Texas-born Patricia Highsmith
(1921-1995) is being recognized only after her death for her
inestimable genius in her native land. With the savage humor of
Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Poe, she brought a distinctly
contemporary acuteness to her prolific body of noir fiction.
Including over 60 short stories written throughout her career,
collected together for the first time, The Selected Stories reveals
the stunning versatility and terrifying power of Highsmith's work.
These stories highlight the remarkable range of Highsmith's powers
her unique ability to quickly, almost imperceptibly, draw out the
mystery and strangeness of her subject, which appears achingly
ordinary to our naked eye. Whether writing about jaded wives or
household pets, Highsmith continually upsets our expectations and
presents a world frighteningly familiar to our own, where danger
lurks around every turn. Stories from The Animal-Lovers Book of
Beastly Murders portray, with incisive humor, the murderously
competitive desires of our most trusted companions. In this
viciously satirical reprise of Kafka, cats, dogs, and cockroaches
are no longer necessary aspects of a happy home but actually have
the power to destroy it. In the short sketches that make up the
Little Tales of Misogyny, Highsmith rediscovers predictable female
characters "The Dancer," "The Female Novelist," "The Prude" and,
through scathing humor, invests them with uniquely destructive
powers. As a writer, Highsmith was all too well aware of the stolid
patriarchal conventions that ruled her day her publisher rejected
her second book out of hand because of its homosexual content. She
is not a polemicist, but, as stories like "Oona the Jolly Cave
Woman" and "The Mobile Bed-Object" reveal, her bizarre, haunting
fiction continually betrays the inadequacy of our conventional
understanding of female character. Highsmith eventually moved away
from these coolly satiric, darkly comic exercises, and in her later
collections, The Black House, Slowly, Slowly in the Wind, and
Mermaids on the Golf Course, she uses the warm familiarities of
middle-class life the manicured lawns, the cozy uptown apartments,
the local pubs as the backbone for her chilling portrayals. "The
Black House," for instance, explores the small-town male
camaraderie and the destructive secret it masks: in this world, the
fact that everyone knows your name is more likely a curse than a
blessing. In the title story of the final collection presented
here, "Mermaids on a Golf-Course," a man's extraordinary brush with
death endows his everyday desires with fantastically devastating
consequences. In her later work, Highsmith adds a dimension of
penetrating psychological insight, evoked most vividly in stories
like "A Curious Suicide" and "The Stuff of Madness," where the
precarious line between fantasy and reality is blurred and we
experience the terrifying possibility of slipping between them.
Great writers view the world askew, and in their art they reflect
our world back to us, slightly distorted. The Selected Stories
reveals Highsmith's deft and exacting style, her incisive satirical
intelligence, and her faultless eye for depicting the inner
tremblings of human character. Her world remains all the more
frightening because we recognize it as our own.
Life in pre-revolutionary Cuba is not easy and James Wormold, a
failing vacuum cleaner salesman, is struggling to fund the
increasingly lavish lifestyle of his manipulative sixteen year-old
daughter, Milly. So when an enigmatic Englishman offers him an
extra income in return for a little spying, he is sorely tempted .
. . But when the fake reports he's been sending to London start to
come true, Havana suddenly becomes a very dangerous place indeed.
Both a brilliant Cold War thriller and hilarious work of satire,
Our Man in Havana is Graham Greene's classic tale of an accidental
spy, and a truly gripping read. Designed to appeal to the
booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of
beautifully bound gift editions of much loved classic titles.
It is 1941 and bombs have turned London into the front line of a
world war. In the shadows of the Blitz, Hitler's agents are running
a blackmail operation to obtain documents that could bring the
nation to instant defeat. Arthur Rowe, a man once convicted of a
notorious mercy killing, stumbles onto a German spy operation in
Bloomsbury and must be silenced. But even with his memory taken
from him, he is still a very dangerous witness. A taut thriller and
a haunting exploration of pity, love, and guilt, The Ministry of
Fear by Graham Greene is universally acknowledged as one of the
greatest of all spy novels. With an introduction by the biographer
and editor Professor Richard Greene. Designed to appeal to the
booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of
beautifully bound gift editions of much loved classic titles.
With a new introduction by Zadie Smith@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt;Into the
intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic
American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious "Third
Force." As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend
Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand
aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the
sake of politics, or for love?
Greene takes us on a wild, unconventional and enlightening voyage
with an ordinary, retired bank manager and his eccentric, daring
aunt. Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his
septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years
at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she
persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, to travel to Brighton, Paris,
Istanbul, Paraguay, and a shiftless, twilight society of hippies,
war criminals, CIA men that will help Henry come alive after a dull
suburban life. VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the
tallest mountains to the depths of the mind
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton.
Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can
escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous,
life-embracing Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge a death.
Pinkie Brown, a neurotic teenage gangster wielding a razor blade
and a bottle of sulfuric acid, commits a brutal murder - but it
does not go unnoticed. Rose, a naive young waitress at a rundown
cafe, has the unwitting power to destroy his crucial alibi, and Ida
Arnold, a woman bursting with easy certainties about what is right
and wrong, has made it her mission to bring about justice and
redemption. Set among the seaside amusements and dilapidated
boarding houses of Brighton's pre-war underworld, Brighton Rock by
Graham Greene is both a gritty thriller and a study of a soul in
torment. A classic of modern literature, it maps out the strange
border between piety and savagery. This beautiful Macmillan
Collector's Library edition of Brighton Rock features an
introduction by the poet, biographer and editor, Professor Richard
Greene. Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan
Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much
loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to
love and treasure.
The last priest is on the run. During an anti-clerical purge in one of the southern states of Mexico, he is hunted like a hare. Too human for heroism, too humble for martyrdom, the little world 'whisky priest' is nevertheless impelled towards his squalid Calvary as much by his own compassion for humanity as by the efforts of his pursuers. A baleful vulture of doom hovers over this modern crucifixion story, but above the vulture soars an eagle - the inevitability of the Church's triumph.
Rollo Martins, a failing novelist, is invited to Vienna by his best
friend, Harry Lime. The city he arrives in is unrecognizable - torn
apart by the Second World War and shared between the occupying
Allies. What's more, Harry is dead, and the circumstances look
suspicious . . . Determined to uncover the truth, Martins must pick
through the rubble of this broken city in search of answers.
Accompanied here by twelve further stories that exhibit the full
range of Graham Greene's masterly storytelling, The Third Man is an
atmospheric noir that oozes with suspense. With an introduction by
the biographer and editor Professor Richard Greene. Designed to
appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a
series of beautifully bound gift editions of much loved classic
titles.
Few novelists have taken films as seriously, or been closely
involved in so many aspects of the film business all their lives,
as Graham Greene. Even at University he was touching on it. His
long-term experience of the evolving art included producing,
performing, script-writing and adaptation. Not to mention the libel
case against him brought by Miss Shirley Temple for some
disobliging words. Mornings in the Dark gathers some of Greene's
best film criticism with a mass of related material: his film
articles, interviews, lectures and radio talks, stories for film,
letters and film proposals. With appendices on Greene's own films
and unfulfilled film projects, and David Parkinson's introduction,
this is an essential collection for readers of fiction and film
enthusiasts alike.
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and
morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man who had better motives for
all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks
of Alden Pyle, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps
the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young
idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon,
where the French Army struggles against the Vietminh guerrillas. As
young Pyle's well-intentioned policies blunder into bloodshed,
Fowler, a seasoned and cynical British reporter, finds it
impossible to stand safely aside as an observer. But Fowler's
motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and
himself, for Pyle has stolen Fowler's beautiful Vietnamese
mistress. Originally published in 1956 and twice adapted to film,
The Quiet American remains a terrifiying and prescient portrait of
innocence at large. This Graham Greene Centennial Edition includes
a new introductory essay by Robert Stone. For more than seventy
years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature
in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin
Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout
history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series
to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes
by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
For Arthur Rowe the charity fOte was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder.Then he guesses the weight of the cake, and from that moment on he's a hunted man, the target of shadowy killers, on the run and struggling to remember and to find the truth.
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Our Man in Havana (Paperback)
Graham Greene; Introduction by Christopher Hitchens
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MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman
turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep
his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's "Tales from
Shakespeare" and dreams up military installations from
vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly
true...
First published in 1959 against the backdrop of the Cold War, Our
Man in Havana remains one of Graham Greene's most widely read
novels. It is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study,
and a political satire of government intelligence that still
resonates today. This Penguin Classics edition features an
introduction by Christopher Hitchens.
Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, was short of money. His daughter had reached an expensive age - so he accepted Hawthorne's offer of $300-plus a month and became Agent 59200/5, M.I.6's man in Havana. To keep the job, Wormold pretends to recruit sub-agents and sends fake stories. Then the stories start coming disturbingly true
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALI The love affair between Maurice
Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London
Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it
off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two
years later, Bendrix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and
slowly his love for her turns into an obsession.
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The Human Factor (Paperback)
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Maurice Castle is a high-level operative in the British secret
service during the Cold War. He is deeply in love with his African
wife, who escaped apartheid South Africa with the help of his
communist friend. Despite his misgivings, Castle decides to act as
a double agent, passing information to the Soviets to help his
in-laws in South Africa. In order to evade detection, he allows his
assistant to be wrongly identified as the source of the leaks. But
when suspicions remain, Castle is forced to make an even more
excruciating sacrifice to save himself. Originally published in
1978, "The Human Factor "is an exciting novel of espionage drawn
from Greene's own experiences in MI6 during World War II, and
ultimately a deeply humanistic examination of the very nature of
loyalty. This edition features a new introduction by Colm Toibin.
The complete stories of a 20th century master of fiction Affairs,
obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legends, dreams, fear, pity, and
violence-this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all
corners of the human experience. Including four previously
uncollected stories, this new complete edition reveals Graham
Greene in a range of contrasting moods, sometimes cynical and
witty, sometimes searching and philosophical. Each of these
forty-nine stories confirms V. S. Pritchett's declaration that
Greene is "a master of storytelling." This Penguin Classics edition
features an introduction by Pico Iyer. For more than seventy years,
Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the
English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin
Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout
history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series
to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes
by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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21 Days (DVD)
Leslie Banks, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Francis L Sullivan, Hay Petrie, …
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Classic British crime drama starring Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks and
Laurence Olivier. Keith Durrant (Banks) is a brilliant young
barrister on the verge of being promoted to the bench. His plans
hit a snag when his younger brother, Larry (Olivier), accidentally
kills the ex-husband of his girlfriend, Wanda (Leigh), and asks
Durrant for help. Durrant realises that he cannot go to the police
because he may run the risk of ruining his promotion, so he says
nothing. When a tramp is arrested for the murder, Larry knows he
must turn himself in before the man is sentenced for a crime he did
not commit. Sentencing takes place in 21 days, so Larry and Wanda
decide to enjoy those days in the best way they can. However, when
the tramp dies in prison, Larry is torn between confessing or
living with the guilty secret forever.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD. Scobie, a police officer
serving in a wartime West African state, is distrusted, being
scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in
love, and in doing so he is forced to betray everything he believes
in, with drastic and tragic consequences.
'In August 1981 my bag was packed for my fifth visit to Panama when
the news came to me over the telephone of the death of General Omar
Torrijos Herrera, my friend and host. . . At that moment the idea
came to me to write a short personal memoir. . . of a man I had
grown to love over those five years' GETTING TO KNOW THE GENERAL is
Graham Greene's account of a five-year personal involvement with
Omar Torrijos, ruler of Panama from 1968-81 and Sergeant Chuchu,
one of the few men in the National Guard whom the General trusted
completely. It is a fascinating tribute to an inspirational
politician in the vital period of his country's history, and to an
unusual and enduring friendship.
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