Дэвид Стори4.1 Новый роман известного писателя посвящен судьбам английской молодежи. Герой книги - юноша из рабочей, шахтерской семьи. Ему удается получить образование и стать учителем, однако "равные возможности", столь широко рекламируемые в современном капиталистическом обществе, не приносят герою ничего, кроме разочарования.
Андре Бринк4.3 Андре Бринк — один из нескольких южноафриканских писателей, пользующихся мировой известностью. Роман «Мгновенье на ветру» — среди его лучших. Сюжет его несложен: белая женщина и африканец волею обстоятельств вынуждены проделать длительное, чрезвычайно трудное путешествие по Африке теперь уже далёкого прошлого. Постепенно между ними зарождается любовь, которую ждёт трагический конец. Их отношения, чисто личные, хотя и с общественной подоплёкой, обрисованы с большой психологической глубиной.
R. C. Hutchinson0.0 Sabino - the outcast member of a rich mine-owning family - is renowned for his arrogance and brutality. For reasons of personal revenge, he agrees to lead an expedition to crush saboteurs who are attacking a vital railway line. Leading his struggling army of half-starved men across the arid and treacherous landscape, Sabino also embarks on a journey of the soul.
Rising, first published in 1976, was R. C. Hutchinson's last novel. It is a powerful re-creation of an episode of South American history, and also a profound and poignant exploration of the complexity of human relationships, and of one man's attempt at redemption. At its heart lies the burning struggle between good and evil.
Brian Moore0.0 Shortlisted for the 1976 Booker Prize, this is a novel about an ordinary woman, in the middle of her life, seized by love for a younger man. The author also wrote "The Colour of Blood", "The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne" and "The Doctor's Wife".
William Trevor4.0 The Children Of Dynmouth - a classic prize-winning novel by William Trevor
Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain.
The 1970s was a decade of anger and discontent. Britain endured power cuts and strikes. America pulled out of Vietnam and saw its President resign from office. Feminism and face lifts vied for women's hearts (and minds). And for many, prog rock, punk and disco weren't just music but ways of life.
William Trevor's The Children of Dynmouth (Winner of the Whitbread Award and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) was first published in 1976 and is a classic account of evil lurking in the most unlikely places. In it we follow awkward, lonely, curious teenager Timothy Gedge as he wanders around the bland seaside town of Dynmouth. Timothy takes a prurient interest in the lives of the adults there, who only realise the sinister purpose to which he seeks to put his knowledge too late.
'A small masterpiece of understatement ... a work of rare compassion' Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times
If you enjoyed The Story of Lucy Gault and Love and Summer, you will love this book. It will also be adored by readers of Colm Toibin and William Boyd.
William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork. He has written eighteen novels and novellas, and hundreds of short stories, for which he has won a number of prizes including the Hawthornden Prize, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the David Cohen Literature Prize in recognition of a lifetime's literary achievement. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature. His books in Penguin are: After Rain; A Bit on the Side; Bodily Secrets; Cheating at Canasta; The Children of Dynmouth; The Collected Stories (Volumes One and Two); Death in Summer; Felicia's Journey; Fools of Fortune; The Hill Bachelors; Love and Summer; The Mark-2 Wife; Selected Stories; The Story of Lucy Gault and Two Lives.
