<div>The cult classic novel of dreamlike fantasy and psychological realism by the author of Poor Things: A work of &ldquo;vivid imagination, yielding copious riches.&rdquo;&mdash;The Times Literary Supplement From its first publication in 1981, Alasdair Gray&rsquo;s Lanark was hailed as a masterpiece, inspiring Anthony Burgess to proclaim Gray the most important Scottish novelist since Walter Scott. With its echoes of Dante, Blake, Joyce, Kafka, and Lewis Carroll, Lanark has been published around the world to unanimous acclaim. A man wakes up on a train with no memory and seashells in his pockets. He finds himself arriving in a peculiar place called Unthank&mdash;where the sun only comes up part-way and the inhabitants are prone to disappearing. He names himself Lanark and soon encounters a gallery of characters who suffer from joblessness, alienation, and strange maladies. The novel&rsquo;s time-shifting narrative then draws readers into Lanark&rsquo;s former life in Glasgow as it explores its twin themes of humankind&rsquo;s inability to love and our compulsion to go on trying. This edition of Lanark features an introduction by the award-winning novelist Janice Galloway, as well as &ldquo;Gray&rsquo;s Tailpiece,&rdquo; a fascinating addendum to the novel. &ldquo;It was time Scotland produced a shattering work of fiction in the modern idiom. This is it.&rdquo; &mdash;Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange &ldquo;A quite extraordinary achievement, the most remarkable thing in Scottish fiction for a very long time.&rdquo; &mdash;Scotsman</div>

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<div>This “thoroughly entertaining” historical novel has “the pace of a spy thriller, with code-cracking and double-crossing aplenty” (The New Yorker). Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor in town seeking psychotherapy for a troubling ailment, becomes caught up in a feverish affair with a beautiful, enigmatic woman. When she goes to the police to press charges of rape, however, he is mystified, and his few months of passion come to an abrupt end. Only a carefully plotted escape—with the help of two mysterious British diplomats—saves him from trial. But the frenzied getaway sets off a chain of events that steadily dismantles Lysander’s life as he knows it. He returns to London hoping to win back his one-time fiancée and banish from memory his traumatic ordeals abroad, but Vienna haunts him at every turn. The men who helped coordinate his escape recruit him to carry out the brutal murder of a complete stranger. His lover from Vienna shows up nonchalantly at a party, ready to resume their liaison. And before he knows where his new life has taken him, Lysander soon finds himself on the trail of a traitor—a man whose bizarre connection to his own family proves a cruel twist of fate. “An absorbing spy novel that raises provocative questions.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Breathlessly readable.” —The Independent “Boyd effortlessly combines historical detail with a sexy, galloping narrative that proves irresistible.” —People “Boyd is a born story teller whose clear, taut prose never gets in the way of his characters and their unpredictable fates.” —The Wall Street Journal “A thinking person’s thriller.” —Good Housekeeping</div>

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<div>A primatologist flees her broken marriage for a job in war-torn Africa in the renowned author’s “brilliant . . . stunningly magical” novel (Washington Post Book World). William Boyd’s classic Brazzaville Beach has been called a “bold seamless blend of philosophy and suspense . . . [that] nevertheless remains accessible to general readers on a level of pure entertainment.” (Boston Globe). When her marriage to a brilliant but unstable mathematician finally shatters, Hope Clearwater leaves England to join a team of primate researchers in a remote African country. Though she is there to study chimps, the greater challenge is her attempt to grapple with her own recent past—as well as her fellow scientists. And when she discovers evidence of supposedly peaceful chimps engaging in extreme violence, Hope finds herself drawn into a war of desperate egos and ruthless ambitions.</div>

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