Shantaram, Gregory Robert Davis"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured." So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city

This is art that conceals art

Collins Classics edition of They Odyssey

as compulsively readable as it is an enlightening journey

L24 x W14 x H2 cm

and in The Manual

Voices Carry is the moving autobiography of the late Ying Ruocheng

the community stunned by her loss

it's clear that it's not just

his roles exemplified a certain school of male charm

a daring fireman rescues a single mom -- and learns that falling in love is the greatest risk of all

but by practising what she calls grit

This volume includes five plays: IVANOV