Enigma Variations, Andre AcimanFrom a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he meets at a tennis court, Enigma Variations charts one man's path through the great loves of his life. Paul's intense desires, losses and longings draw him closer, not to a defined orientation, but to an understanding that 'heartache, like love, like low grade fevers, like the

They stop talking when I appear

may erode or save the life that nourishes it

Clare Balding

John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare

explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience

with a dotted white pattern

The New York Times Bestelling guide for managers and executives

but a chilling reflection of the unsolvable mysteries of their own souls

John Buckmaster

I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries

Take him and cut him out in little stars

barbaric cruelty