The Zahir is a perfect follow-on to The Alchemist. Paulo picks up the theme of the pilgrimage to Santiago but tells a very different, gripping story of love, loss and passionate obsession.
The author explains this novel draws on her own life experience but it is not thinly veiled autobiography.
The narrative is gripping and the writing sumptuous. No wonder this was a Man Booker nominated novel.
This groundbreaking book from the UK's leading spokesman on nutrition looks at why millions of people have craving for substances such as coffee, sugar and alcohol, as well as drugs. Meet he author who can help you become addiction free without suffering the unpleasant withdrawal symptoms.
This story confronts the perennial problem of deciding how to chose a partner. Sometimes the decisions made by the head are trumped by areas located further south.
If you thought that you could never be interested in thermodynamics give this superb book a go. Like entropy your knowledge and enjoyment will start to increase.
Dorothy, often portrayed as the dutiful self effacing sister of the poet William Wordsworth, emerges from this book as something quite different.
After reading this captivating book you will feel that you have met a remarkable and spirited woman.
This timely book sheds light on the perplexing question of what drives an intelligent human being to destroy themselves and others by becoming a suicide bomber.
John and Mary Gribbin tell the story of the intrepid, eccentric, and brave, men and women who scoured the world looking for exotic and beautiful plants in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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