Search Results: Authors starting with A from Ivy Court Books

As poet and critic and the author of a remarkable book on suicide (The Savage God), A. Alvarez is specially well equipped to explore the work of a dramatist whose prose he describes as tending constantly towards the condition of poetry, and whose subject is depression and despair.

'Historically animated and emotionally fervent. Ackroyd turns the past into a private phantasmagoria of loving fakes and pungent terrors'.
Observer

'Ackroyd makes an intense and memorable logic of such phantasmagoria, in a novel remarkable for power, ingenuity and sublety alike'.
London Review of Books

'Magnificent... Reminiscent of Marquez and Allende'.
Guardian
'Rich with historical detail and debate. Egypt emerges as the true heroine of this novel'.
Independent

'Bewitching... a novel about sex, a romantic novel about power and a comic yet sympathetic novel about the vagaries of the human heart'.
New York Times Book Review

Alan Hollinghurst's first novel is a tour-de-force: an enthralling, darkly erotic work which centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, an old Africa hand who is searching for someone to write his biography and inherit his traditions.

{Handwritten inscription: 'To Daddy, Wishing you a very happy Christmas and New Year. With love, Audrey & Basil. Christmas 1958'.}
[22 fine black & white illustrations]
Alan Moorehead describes the Russian Revolution as "the most important event of modern times, the event which has done more to shape our lives than anything else". This book is a straightforward account of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the events which led up to it.

... 'Je ne deteste que les bourreaux. Tout lecteur qui voudra bien lire les LETTRES A UN AMI ALLEMAND dans cette perspective, c'est-a-dire comme un document de la lutte contre la violence, admettra que je puisse dire maintenant que je n'en renie pas un seul mot'.
ALBERT CAMUS (1948)

(SIGNED BY AUTHOR to: Robert)
'The truly great achievement of this book is to reveal, unflinchingly and with panache, the rich and varied heritage of the Indus in all its appalling splendour'.
Guardian

(Sixteen pages of high quality rare black & white photos)
Ortiz reveals the truth behind the captivating and undying legend that is Eva Peron. Ortiz has reconstructed Peron's life from her troubled, impoverished upbringing to her turbulent marriage and rise to political icon as the wife of Argentine dictator Juan Peron.

'An insightful, richly documented study of the dynamics of migration on a regional scale. Stearman offers a clear analysis of the strategies of migrants in their diverse settings in lowland Bolivia'.
Maxine Margolis, University of Florida

'Amis is immaculate as a comic stylist... irresistible'.
Daily Telegraph

'He has taught thousands of people to mistrust facades, to call the bluff, to be brave without bounce and inconsistent without frivolity. He is the humanist of our age'.
E M Forster
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'The most brilliant man I've ever met... another Neal Cassady'. ALLEN GINSBERG
'A unique and pivotal figure in the literary world of the 1950s and 60s'. WILLIAM BURROUGHS
'A fascinating personality... a very fine writer'. NORMAN MAILER
'Everything he did was heroic, Wagnerian... He was Great!' TERRY SOUTHERN
'Cosmopolitan scum! A writer of no literary consequence whatsoever'. HUGH MACDIARMID

"Guaranteed to make the flesh creep and the skin crawl, a masterful novel about a mad, clanking fog-bound world".
Simon Winchester

Andrew O'Hagan has written a story which is a poignant and powerful reclamation of the past and a clear-sighted gaze at our relationship with history. Our Fathers is a beautiful and profound book which announced O'Hagan as a novelist of great distinction.

Shelter is an extraordinary novel filled with suspense and surprise... a novel of transcendent beauty by one of the finest writers of our times.
In a West Virginia girls' camp in July 1963, a group of children experiences an unexpected rite of passage... and is an astonishing portrayal of an American loss of innocence as witnessed by a drifter named Parson, two young sisters, Lenny and Alma, and a feral boy.

A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING is the first novel in the series A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME.
'Intensely enjoyable... his dry, ironic descriptions are very funny indeed. A Question of Upbringing is a witty and shapely account of conventional English education'.
Observer

'This brilliant novel is compulsively told. Every sentence is taut with suspense'.
Spectator