Search Results: Titles starting with L from Ivy Court Books

'The quality of Coetzee's writing lies in his inner vision: dark, passionately compassionate, concerned with the nature of man'.
Financial Times

'Historically animated and emotionally fervent. Ackroyd turns the past into a private phantasmagoria of loving fakes and pungent terrors'.
Observer

Edited and with an introduction by James Grauerholz
'Last Words collects these daily jottings in his notebooks, the entire literary output from the last nine months of his life... With only the love of his cats, literature and methadone left, these journals make for unbearably poignant reading. Unlikely as it may sound, Bill Burroughs was only human after all'.
The Times

ANDREI MAKINE EST NE EN RUSSIE EN 1957. IL A RECU LES PRIX GONCOURT, MEDICIS ET GONCOURT DES LYCEENS 1995 POUR SON ROMAN LE TESTAMENT FRANCAIS>

This selection from Neruda's CANTO GENERAL includes dramatic illustrations by Jose Venturelli, originally reproduced in Chile in 1947, and an introduction by Christopher Perriman.

... 'Je ne deteste que les bourreaux. Tout lecteur qui voudra bien lire les LETTRES A UN AMI ALLEMAND dans cette perspective, c'est-a-dire comme un document de la lutte contre la violence, admettra que je puisse dire maintenant que je n'en renie pas un seul mot'.
ALBERT CAMUS (1948)

In 1942, the s.s. Broda, packed with refugees, broke up and sank off the Turkish coast. The men, women and children on board - refugees from Hitler's concentration camps bound for Palestine - were not the victims of enemy action but of British intransigence and Turkish officialdom, which forced the vessel out to sea when she was unseaworthy. Only two people out of six hundred survived. One of them, washed up on a lonely beach, bore the name of Jacob Lindmann.
Twenty years later, the man called Jacob Lindmann lives alone in a dreary lodging-house in Shepherd's Bush.
The shockwaves of his eventual breakdown reach back twenty years to reveal a totally different aspect of the Broda affair.

'A treasure trove, a discovery of a lost land we knew existed but couldn't find. A thrilling miracle of a book'.
The Times