Records the true experience of the 1939-45 conflict, and its unending consequences. This title includes poems from over twenty countries, including Japan, Australia, Europe, America and Russia; poems in which human responses echo each other across boundaries of culture and state.

Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy who devours every man in sight; the repulsive Spandrell deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment and all the while everyone is engaged in dazzling and witty conversation.

Tells the story of a father and daughter. This title also tells the story of a menage a trois and explores crucial domestic problems of sexual etiquette.

For decades Britain was divided between Left and Right but united in its belief in a two-party state. Now, with nationalism resurgent and mainstream parties in turmoil, stark new divisions define the country and the centre ground is deserted. The author witnessed this change from the inside. In this book, he offers an account of his experiences.

The tale of the sinking of a Portuguese ship off the coast of Italy in 1516, while attempting to deliver a rhinoceros to Pope Leo X. The hero, Salvestro, is caught up in a mission to Rome by a sect of secretive monks from a Baltic island, their first pilgrimage in 200 years.

Examines the Popes, an oldest continuing institution in the world, tracing the papal line down the centuries from St Peter (traditionally - but by no means historically - the first Pope) to the present, and from the glories of Byzantium to the decay of Rome, from the Albigensian Heresy to controversy within the Church today.

Portnoy's Complaint is a disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. In this book, the author states that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship.

Isabel Archer's main aim in life is to protect her independence. She is not interested in settling down and compromising her freedom for the sake of marriage. But, on a trip around Europe, she finds herself captivated by the charming Gilbert Osmond, who is very interested in the idea of adding Isabel to his collection of beautiful artworks.