All Souls' Rising by Madison Smartt Bell (1996)

After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and...

When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything....

'We are not artists nor musicians. We are workers.' Ignoring nearly all rock traditions, experimenting in near-total secrecy in their Düsseldorf studio,...

The autobiography of an American icon, Andy Warhol - American painter, filmmaker, publisher, actor and major figure in the Pop Art movement - was in many...

Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the...

Brazil gangs. s/hand paperback

Trinidadian writer VS Naipaul Description: Mr Stone likes to be known as Head Librarian with Excal, and dislikes the prospect of retirement. After a...

Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork - with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion...

Since it was first published, this famous study of the Black Problem in America has become a classic. Powerful, haunting and prophetic, it sounds a clarion...