Search Results: Authors starting with B from Ivy Court Books

As complex, turbulent, flamboyant and spectacular as the gas giant on which it is set, this science fiction novel by Iain M Banks is space opera on a truly epic scale.
'Poetic, humorous, baffling, terrifying, sexy'. NME

'The Eye in the Door is gripping, moving, beautifully constructed and profoundly intelligent. It centres on the terrible trauma suffered by young First World War veterans, but is also about gender, class, truth, survival and love'.
Independent on Sunday

A crazy quilt of oddballs, poseurs, snobs, sorceresses and outlaws, John Berendt's seductive portrait of Savannah society, framed by the notorious trial of antiques dealer Jim Williams for murder, became an international bestseller and an instant classic.
'THE BEST NON-FICTION NOVEL SINCE IN COLD BLOOD'
Edmund White

'Bolano's judgements are a joy to read. Between Parentheses is a treasure chest: filled with glittering jewels and fistfuls of gold. In these essays we hear Bolano's real voice'.
Nation

(12 pages of original black & white photos)
The rise and fall of the media tycoon Conrad Black is rivalled in its spectacular extravagance only by the machinations of his social-mountaineering wife, Barbara Amiel. Together their story of overweening ambition and greed is a modern-day classic of hubris.

'His eccentric wit and restless intelligence exert a powerful appeal'.
New York Times Book Review
'The energy and inventiveness of Boyd's storytelling is breathtaking'.
London Review of Books

"I live on Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa". So Hope Clearwater declares at the beginning of Wiliam Boyd's audacious and fascinating 1990 novel. What is she doing there, a young woman alone, far from her family in England? Why has Brazzaville Beach become her home?

[Signed:
'To the Norman Halls - affectionately Russ'.
I believe this is Russell Braddon's signature]
Colonel Russell, an Australian Army volunteer, is captured by the Chinese in Malaya with seven colleagues, and is put through intensive interrogation by Major Lim, the objective being to break down Russell's resistance and persuade him to broadcast Communist propaganda to the West. He forces Russell to write about his childhood in minute detail, and from these memoirs he pieces together a character study of his captive which is brilliant in its observation.

WONDROUS TIMES ON THE FRONTIER is at once funny and nostalgic. - a celebration of the American Old West and its unique way of life that served as the inspiration for this acclaimed writer's lifetime of writing.
Dee Brown's most remarkable work of non-fiction since the legendary Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

'Endlessly fascinating.... a classic, very American tale of glory, conceit and ruin'. Q magazine
'Thorough and elegantly readable.... a vivid portrait'. Guardian
16 pages of black & white and colour photos.

'Bukowski's voice is insistent and affirming but it also has the humble durability of someone who won't stay down... His stories help keep people alive'.
Independent

Edited and with an introduction by James Grauerholz
'Last Words collects these daily jottings in his notebooks, the entire literary output from the last nine months of his life... With only the love of his cats, literature and methadone left, these journals make for unbearably poignant reading. Unlikely as it may sound, Bill Burroughs was only human after all'.
The Times