LOUIS DE BERNIERES

A beautiful collection of poems from bestselling author Louis de Bernieres.From the very start of his writing career Louis de Bernieres has loved poetry. Here the author of the much-loved Captain Corellis Mandolin returns to this first love with his third collection.The Cat in the Treble Clef focuses on family and the connections we make, and break, with other people. There are moving poems to and about his family: his great grandmother, his mother and father and his children. There are poems about places near and far, about the passing of time, music and about love in its various forms. In this collection, de Bernieres shares his passion with his readers, in a beautifully illustrated gift edition.

25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORA true diamond of a novel, glinting with comedy and tragedy Daily MailIt is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces.

Kefalonia, 1941. Captain Corelli, an enigmatic young Italian officer, is posted to the idyllic Greek island as part of the Axis occupying forces. Shunned by the locals at first, he proves to be civilised, humorous and a consummate musician.The captain is soon thrown together with Dr Ianniss strong-willed and beautiful daughter, Pelagia, who discovers all of the complexities of love, and how it can blossom in the most unexpected and profound way.Rona Munros adaptation of Louis de Bernieres much-loved epic novel, Captain Corellis Mandolin, premiered on tour of the UK in 2019, before transferring to Londons West End.

A beautiful and unlikely love story about what unites us from the bestselling author of Captain Corellis Mandolin. Chris is in his forties: bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage.

Of Love and Desire is a rich collection of love poems from Louis de Bernieres, written over a lifetime, and capturing its many forms from rapture, infatuation, urgency, to sorrow, heartache and disillusion. Poetry was de Bernieres first and greatest literary love, a passion evident in the musicality and emotion of his poems, which are full of stories and the truth of lived experience. This, his second collection, bears the mark of many influences, from the classical Persian poets, to Neruda, to Quintus Smyrnaeus, to Brian Patten.Beautifully illustrated by Donald Sammut, this is an indispensable companion on the lovers journey.

Sometimes we must look to the past to survive the future A novel about what really matters in life from the bestselling author of Captain Corelli s MandolinQ wants a simpler and safer life His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is imminent for civilisation and he s looking for somewhere to ride out what s ahead He buys a ruined farmhouse in Cornwall and begins to build his own self sufficient haven Over the course of this quest he meets the eccentric characters who already live on the moors nearby including the park ranger in charge of the reintroduced lynxes and aurochs that roam the area a holy man waiting for the second coming on top of a nearby hill an Arthurian knight on horseback and the amorous ghost of an Edwardian woman who haunts the farmhouse As life in the cities gets more complicated and our systems of electronic control begin to fall apart Q flourishes in the wild Cornish countryside His new way of life brings him back in tune with his teenage children his ex wife and his own sense of who he is He also grows close to Eva energetic and enchanting who is committed to her own quest for love and meaning In this entertaining and heart warming novel Louis de Bernieres pokes fun at modern mores a

While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerillas, unfrocked priests and reformed though by no means inactive whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfillment. But for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by his own private demons, their stupendous, hedonistic fiestas represent the epicenter of all heresies. Heresies that must be challenged with a horrifying new inquisition destined to climax in a spectacular confrontation The second part of a trilogy, following The War of Don Emmanuel''s Nether Parts, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Fiction.

'In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner. Karratha is a mining town a long way further north. The landscape is extraordinary, being composed of vast heaps of dark red earth and rock poking out of the never-ending bush. I imagine that Mars must have a similar feel to it. I went exploring and discovered the bronze statue to Red Dog outside the town of Dampier. I felt straight away that I had to find out more about this splendid dog. A few months later I returned to Western Australia and spent two glorious weeks driving around collecting Red Dog stories and visiting the places that he knew, writing up the text as I went along. I hope my cat never finds out that I have written a story to celebrate the life of a dog.'

In his first novel since Corelli's Mandolin,"" Louis de Bernieres creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters. It's a place that has room for a professional blasphemer; where a brokenhearted aga finds solace in the arms of a Circassian courtesan who isn't Circassian at all; where a beautiful Christian girl named Philothei is engaged to a Muslim boy named Ibrahim. But all of this will change when Turkey enters the modern world. Epic in sweep, intoxicating in its sensual detail, Birds Without Wings is an enchantment.

Escrita en clave de humor delirante, Dioniso Vivo y el señor de la coca resulta una brillantísima sátira que recrea una ficción tal vez no muy alejada de la realidad de algún lejano país latinoamericano. La joven esposa del presidente Veracruz da a luz un gato como inesperada consecuencia de sus experimentos de alquimia sexual. Ante semejante maravvilla de la naturaleza, Veracruz despierta de su impune placidez de politico corrupto, y no es que decida dejar de ser latino bananero que es, sino que de ahora en adelante sera un despota ilustrado en los misterios de las artes hermeticas. En medio de tanto disparate, el profesor de filosofia Dionisio Vivo decide enfrentarse al cartel de narcotraficantes enviando cartas a la prensa y recibe como respuesta una nada desdeñable advertencia en forma de corbata colombiana. Es decir, los narcos le dejan en su jardin a un señor con la garganta seccionada dejando entrever su rosada lengua, y no sera el ultimo. En una convulsa ciudad en la que impera la "ley de la plata o el plomo" o aceptas el soborno o apareces muerto en el jardin de Vivo los presidentes de la nacion son salvados milagrosamente por arcangeles y las prostitutas se encarnan en primeras damas. Entretando un hombre, condenado a la miseria por culpa del amor, sobrevive espantado a sus sesiones como a moscas, es decir, con poca eficacia.

"* ''Louis de Bernleres is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh... he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste'' - Evening Standard * ''An emotional, funny, stunning novel which swings with wide smoothnes s between joy and bleakness, personal lives and history... it''s lyrical and angry, satirical and earnest'' - Observer * ''A master of haunted realism. His best novel yet. He deals with death and love and tragedy... This is a novel to be prized'' - Daily Mail"

Brillante narración del autor de La mandolina del capitán Corelli sobre el amor y el odio, los conflictos de convivencia entre religiones y el gran absurdo que entraña cualquier guerra. La vida de los habitantes de una pequeña poblacion costera de Anatolia, a principios del siglo XX, es un ejemplo de armonia: cristianos, musulmanes y armenios comparten sus tradiciones, su amor y su amistad. Pero con la desintegracion del Imperio Otomano, la guerra acabara con todos sus sueños.

John the gardener is disillusioned with his life, past and present. Alan is Johns assistant, helplessly in love with Sylvie, the stable girl. These three characters are united by their friendship and by George, the barn spider.Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Notwithstanding.

11-year-old Robert is asked by the beautiful Mrs. Rendall to catch the infamous Girt Pike from her pond. Too poor to buy the appropriate fishing rod for the daunting task, Robert fashions his own, proving to himself, Mrs. Rendall and the rest of the village that he is capable of anything. However, it is not all happy endings . . .Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Notwithstanding.

Agatha Feakes looks back over her life and experiences, blissfully unaware that is her last day living . . .Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection N

The acclaimed story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history: "An exuberant mixture of history and romance, written with a wit that is incandescent" (Los Angeles Times Book Review).The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs of men and the local saint periodically rises from his sarcophagus to cure the mad. Then the tide of World War II rolls onto the islands shores in the form of the conquering Italian army.Caught in the occupation are Pelagia, a willful, beautiful young woman, and the two suitors vying for her love: Mandras, a gentle fisherman turned ruthless guerilla, and the charming, mandolin-playing Captain Corelli, a reluctant officer of the Italian garrison on the island. Rich with loyalties and betrayals, and set against a landscape where the factual blends seamlessly with the fantastic, Corellis Mandolin is a passionate novel as rich in ideas as it is genuinely moving.