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Graham Greene
The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance…
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODEN Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in…
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt ‘Papa Doc’ and the Tontons Macoute, his…
‘Graham Greene’s beautiful and disturbing novel is filled with tenderness, humour, excitement and doubt’ The Times A leak is traced to a small sub-section of the secret service, sparking off…
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Discover Graham Greene’s blackly comic and timely espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana. ‘British Intelligence being sent up something rotten’ Daily Telegraph Wormold is a…
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Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so…
During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the ‘whisky priest’, is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being…
Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother’s funeral. Through Aunt…
With superb skill and feeling, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his extraordinary life. as if seeking out danger, Greene travelled to Haiti during the nightmare rule of…
Richard Greene
* The first book of Graham Greene’s letters - the most intimate record we have of a life lived at the heart of modern history
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In 1935, Graham Greene set off to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar West African republic founded for released slaves. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast…
‘Graham Greene has wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the top ranks of world literature’ John le…
With Sancho Panza, a deposed Communist mayor, his faithful Rocinate, an antiquated motorcar, Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in a brilliant picaresque fable. Like Cervantes’ classic, Monsignor Quixote offers…
‘Manages to say more about love, hate, happiness, grief, immortality, greed and the disgustingly rich than most contemporary English novels three times the length’ The Times Doctor Fischer despises the…
A gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinean town, considered to be one of Greene’s finest novels. Charley Fortnum is the ‘Honorary Consul’, a whisky-sodden figure of…
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN ‘In a class by himself…the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man’s consciousness and anxiety’ William Golding In a small continental country civil war is…
Raven is a ruthless assassin, a hired killer, whose cold-blooded murder of the Minister for War will have violent repercussions across Europe.
This is the story of Francis Andrews, a young man whose betrayal of his fellow smugglers has left a man dead. Fearing vengeance, he flees and takes refuge in the…
Discover Graham Green’s prescient political masterpiece ‘The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American’ Ian McEwan Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Indo-China comes CIA agent…
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Carleton Myatt meets Coral Musker, a naive English chorus girl, aboard the Orient Express as it heads across Europe to Constantinople. As their relationship…
One of the first lessons I took from it was that a serious novel could be an exciting novel - that the novel of adventure could also be the novel…
