Böcker i British Literature Series-serien

The tenth child of a fantasist mother and an absent millionaire, Matty Crickholme is growinginto a sexually bewildered, neurotic young man. Through the collected paraphernalia of anunconventional childhood, Alex Kovacs creates a quirky, kaleidoscopic rumination on family andhow it shapes us-for better or worse.Sexology follows the strange, wonderful, fluxional world of the Crickholmes, wherenonconformism is celebrated, siblings form autonomous republics, and eccentricity reignssupreme. The Crickholme siblings youthful exploits take them on myriad paths: a hermeticpsychic, a dog trainer, an ice cream purveyoress, a missing person. Between memories,factoids, letters, and old photographs, Matty investigates how their offbeat rearing made themthe adults they became, and how fantasy and convention collide. Alex Kovacs's writings have received acclaim for their invention, wit, and astute observations ofour absurd world. Sexology brings this intellectual playfulness to the story of the Crickholmeswith a unique prose that evokes the complex emotional landscapes of W.G. Sebald's novels andthe sometimes-gentle, sometimes-devastating style of Susanna Clarke. The result is anentrancing, incomparable medley.

Mosley's Rainbow People is a masterful,powerful book about borders, politics, andhope.

Following his anthologies Man + Dog (2009) and Man + Doctor (2012), Nick Wadley has, with our encouragement, compiled this collection of drawings around the theme of Man + Table.

Jason is a scriptwriter working on a film about Masada - the fortress where a thousand Jews killed themselves rather than be taken prisoner by the Romans in 73 AD. A dispute about the film and a crisis aboard the plane forces Jason to look at his life, his art and the world around him in several different ways at once.

Describes the contradictions of public and private life through the eyes of the British PM's daughter.

When an unknown black poodle explodes in philosophy professor Timothy Brown's back yard - paralysing the professor and killing his guest - the mystery of the sardine begins. Its solution will now involve such unwitting detectives as a 12-year-old mathematician, a palmist named Miss Prentice, and a bureaucrat dubbed the Minister of Imponderabilia.

Rather than trying to compel or convince the reader to accept his beliefs, the author describes how religion functions in the modern world.