Fleeing from the Nazis, Freud arrived in London in June 1938. He moved into 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, London and lived there with his family until his death in September 1939.
All his life Freud was an avid art-collector. 20 Maresfield Gardens is now a museum which contains his collection, the couch his patients reclined on and ...
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Council worker Roger has joined the ASBO unit because new departments are the best places to avoid work. Feeling oddly blank about the death of his father and wanting to escape the office, he goes to investigate a condemned tower block on the notorious Composer's estate.
Looking down from the third floor, Roger is mesmerised by the sight o...
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First UK publication of one of Africa’s most talented living authors. read more
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Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of high-tech solitude. Arguing that the internet's widespread anonymity eliminates boundaries and encou... read more
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Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, and Andy Warhol all wrote fiction – but there has never previously been a compilation of the prose of British artists. The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B and Other Stories brings together seventeen of Britain’s leading contemporary artists in one collection.
Moving, humorous and sometimes deeply macabre, these sto...
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From its first publication in 1997, Altered State established itself as the definitive text on dance culture. This second edition includes accounts of the election campaign of Tony Blair which used an Ecstasy anthem as its musical theme, and the trial and acquittal of a 19-year-old for supplying the drug that killed Leah Betts, and her links to Ea... read more
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‘Socrates thought about a promise he’d made. He swore to himself that he’d never hurt another person...That way he could ease the evil deeds that he had perpetrated in the long evil life that he’d lived.’
Socrates Fortlow has spent 27 years in prison and can kill a man with his bare hands. But now he’s out and determined to use...
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A brutal killer, inspired by the Belgian artist Paul Delvaux, leaves each of his victims posed as if in a painting.
Meanwhile cult film director Johnny Vos is making a low-budget biopic about the same artist. He hires women from Antwerp’s red light district and from an internet voyeur house as extras in order to recreate the poses of ...
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First published in 1953, Artemisia immediately established itself as a classic. At the centre of the book is Artemisia Gentileschi, a painter influenced by Michelangelo and Caravaggio. A rising star in 17th-century Naples, Artemisia realises that success has been bought at too high a price – she has failed as a woman, a wife and a mother. The clo... read more
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As essential now as when it was first published in 1977, As Serious As Your Life celebrates jazz with passion and conviction. Covering the dynamic period 1960-1976, Valerie Wilmer powerfully evokes a remarkable revolutionary musical era that continues to inspire generations of musicians.
Valerie Wilmer evaluates the musical careers of bot...
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Ask Dr. Mueller captures the glamour and grittiness of Cookie Mueller’s life and times. Here are previously unpublished stories - wacky as they are enlightening - along with favorites from Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black and other publications. Also the best of Cookie’s art columns from Details magazine, and the funniest of ... read more
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In the summer of 1989 John Williams donned a baseball cap and took off for the States to search out the mythical America of modern crime fiction – to find James Ellroy’s LA, Elmore Leonard’s sleazy South Beach of Miami, Sara Paretsky’s Chicago, and many others on an unnerving tour of the American underbelly. The result was Into the Badlands... read more
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Easy Rawlins is out of the investigation business and as far away from crime as a black man can be in 1960s Los Angeles. But living around desperate men means life gets complicated sometimes. When an old friend gets in trouble to ask for Easy’s help, he finds he can’t refuse.
Young Brawly Brown has traded in his family for The Clan of ...
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In the early 1900s, Bita Plant returns to Jamaica after seven years of European education to live with Malcolm and Priscilla Craig – the white missionary benefactors who helped her become a cultivated young woman. They have Bita’s future mapped out: training at the mission and marrying a dedicated theological student. Reluctant to accept this f... read more
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Lincoln Agrippa Daily, known to his drifter cohorts on the 1920s Marseille waterfront as ‘Banjo’, passes his days panhandling and dreaming of starting his own little band. At night Banjo, Malty, Ginger, Dengel, Bugsy, Taloufa, Goosey, and even Jake of Home to Harlem prowl the rough waterfront bistros, drinking, looking for women, playing music... read more
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‘I’d like to make a withdrawal’
Chris Benson idolises his older brother Gavin. In fact, everyone looks up to him. But then they have little choice when they are lying on their stomachs in the middle of the Halifax with a gun shoved in their face…
When Gavin gets sent down for a 15-year stretch the somewhat unprofessional t...
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Abebe Bikila was the first black African to win an Olympic gold medal. He won the marathon running barefoot in Rome in 1960 and won again wearing shoes in Tokyo in 1964, becoming the first person to win the most grueling of all human contests twice.
Born into bitter poverty in rural Ethiopia in 1932, at sixteen Bikila joined the Imperial G...
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This shocking memoir by the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas is a book about sexual, political and artistic freedom. In Before Night Falls, Arenas recounts his journey from a poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba to his death in New York four decades later. He tells of his odyssey from young rebel fighting for the Revolution, through his suppressio... read more
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Salie lives in Paris. Back home on the Senegalese island of Niodior, her football-crazy brother, Madické, counts on her to get him to France, the promised land where foreign footballers become world famous. Given his illusions, how can Salie explain to him the grim reality of life as an immigrant?
The story of Salie and Madické highligh...
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Scottish drifter Jack McCall, handyman in an Alpine ski resort, spends his days sneaking into the empty penthouses of the super-rich with his partner Anna, sipping champagne and partying in private jacuzzis. At 29, Jack’s unsure of what he wants from life, but Anna wants commitment. Then one night a man slips on a frozen balcony in a nearby apart... read more
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Siobhan Forrester, lead singer of Beneath the Blonde, has everything a girl could want - stunning body, great voice, brilliant career, loving boyfriend. Now she has a stalker too. She can cope with the midnight flower deliveries and nasty phone calls, but things really turn sour when intimidation turns to murder.
Saz Martin, hired to seek ...
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Washington DC, 1946. For two local young men, Pete Karras and Joey Recevo, the easiest way to find work after the war is by providing a little muscle for a local boss who runs a protection racket with the Mafia. The trouble with Pete Karras is that he is just too soft on his fellow immigrants, and the last thing the boss wants is for his mob to get... read more
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Five years have passed since the White Butterfly Affair, there’s a Kennedy in the White House and Martin Luther King is in the news. It might look like a new dawn for Black America but for Easy Rawlins times are only getting tougher - his real-estate empire is deep in the hole. Trouble comes knocking once more when Easy’s asked to find a missin... read more
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It’s winter in Philadelphia. January cold coming in off two rivers. Hart is broke, freezing, looking for a place to lay low from the cops. If he can’t find somewhere soon he might do something rash – like steal an overcoat and accept a wallet containing $11,000 from a man dying from gunshot wounds in the street. Whoever killed him might have ... read more
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Stunning literary debut set in Trinidad & Tobago, from a new writer to watch. read more
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New edition of the international bestseller, updated material deals with the Nissour square massacre. read more
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Harry Verma – small-time immigration solicitor, nursing a sick father and a gambling habit – has taken to pulling more than just the odd legal aid fraud to help pay his unpredictable creditors. Sean Carlisle – enforcement officer, collaring illegal immigrants for a living – is self-destructing. Booze, pills and bending the law to get result... read more
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'She took a final drag at the cigarette, flipped it away, and said, I don't get this line of talk. It's way over my head... Maybe you're waiting for some dream girl to come along in a coach drawn by six white horses, and she'll pick you up and haul you away to the clouds, where it's all milk and honey and springtime all year around. Maybe that's wh... read more
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Dickens & Clot Investigations Ltd, a detective agency in a waterlogged, semi-buried Madrid of the near future, has a couple of unusual specialities: helping distraught authors and taking on Manex Chopeitia. The authors are frantically in search of characters who’ve quit the page and assumed a life of their own; Manex Chopeitia is the Big Brother ... read more
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Michael Forsythe might be, as one of his assailants puts it, ‘un-fucking-killable’, but that doesn’t seem to deter people from trying. He’s living in Lima, reasonably well-hidden by the FBI’s Witness Protection Program, but Bridget Callaghan, whose fiancé he murdered twelve years ago, has an enduring wish to see him dead. So when her t... read more
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