Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.
A dazzling and intricate tale from Elif Shafak, Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World – chosen for the Duchess of Cornwall’s online book club The Reading Room ‘There were six of us: the master, the apprentices and the white elephant. We built everything together…’
In seven independent, but closely related chapters, Milan Kundera presents his personal conception of the European novel, which he describes as ‘an art born of the laughter of God’.
The Art of War is a book of conflict knowledge and tactics revolving around several key concepts, including: Knowing when to fight and when not to fight. Knowing how to mislead the enemy. Knowing oneself and one’s enemy.
This book has matching lined and blank journals (sold separately) . They make a great gift when paired together but are also just as beautiful on their own.
This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an unbeliever.’ A stunning pair of short stories about faith and sacrificial love.
Kate Chopin (1850–1904) was an American author of short stories and novels for both adults and children. She is now considered by many to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century.
One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor’s surgery. ‘I need to have an abortion’, she announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life.
Gloria and Anthony Patch party until their money runs out; then their goal becomes Adam Patch’s fortune. Gloria’s beauty fades and Anthony’s drinking takes its horrible toll. Fitzgerald here once again displays a wariness of the upper classes.
The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath’s only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to make Plath an enduring feminist icon. It was published under a pseudonym a few weeks before the author’s suicide.
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This is another epic love story by Nicholas Sparks, the bestselling author of The Notebook, Dear John, The Last Song and Message In A Bottle, which all became popular films.
Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man’s alienation – and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting.
Philip Pullman, author of ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy, has remarked that “after nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” This new collection of Rumi stories fills that need.