The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera'A cult figure.' Guardian'A dark and brilliant achievement.' Ian McEwan'Shamelessly clever Exhilaratingly subversive and funny.' Independent'A modern classic As relevant now as when it was first published. ' John BanvilleA young woman is in love with a successful surgeon; a man torn between his love for her and his womanising. His mistress, a free spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals; while her other lover stands to lose everything

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writers and activists: Jeanette Winterson tackles religious dogma

Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free

for emus it is all down to daddy

'Ciaran McMenamin confirms his exceptional talent with this admirably powerful and authentic novel about the First World War and the struggle for Irish independence

From award-winning war reporter and co-author of I Am Malala

it becomes clear that the lives of the characters--caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York--overlap in unexpected ways

grandmother and matriarch

be they Zeus or Agamemnon

In the summer of 1986

From the real-life Lord of the Flies to the Blitz

sharp and wild' Lisa McInerney