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Paul Farley

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Paul Farley is now widely recognized as one of the leading English poets writing today. Selected...

Dead Simple

Harry Bingham, Mark Billingham, Angela Marsons and Jane Casey

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A woman reports a crime to the police, with unexpected results The grieving widow who finds that...

Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive

John Leeson, David Fisher and Lalla Ward

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The Leisure Hive on the planet Argolis is an entertainment centre for galactic travellers. At the...

Doctor Who: The Rescue

Ian Marter and Maureen O'Brien

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From his one previous visit the Doctor remembers the inhabitants of the planet Dido as a gentle,...

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Tonio Kroger

Thomas Mann | 1998 | Fiction & Poetry

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"I know that the novella "Tonio Kroger" is not Thomas Mann’s greatest work. There is some part of me that feels that I should be putting up “Buddenbrooks” or “The Magic Mountain” here. And there’s a strong case for “Death in Venice,” too. But this is the book of his that felled me completely when I read it as a German student in my teens. All Mann’s enduring themes are here: the struggle between duty and love, between the febrile pleasure and teutonic responsibility; and the lethal vulnerability of the lover, set against the wanton cruel power of the beloved. It’s an anguished worldview, which is what spoke so directly to the adolescent reader I was, but no one reads Thomas Mann for woo-woo life-enhancing sentimentality."

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