On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwanIt is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come On Chesil Beach is another masterwork from Ian McEwan a story about how the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.

has her glass menagerie and her memories

fine (as new)

there were very many in the open valley

With an Introduction by W

Shehan Karunatilaka is back with a “thrilling satire” (Economist) and rip-roaring state-of-the-nation epic that offers equal parts mordant wit and disturbing

to attack the terrible legacy of racism

a neighbourhood whose inhabitants like to be co-ordinated with their surroundings – a neighbourhood where spangly purple trousers are admired by the walls of buildings as you pass them

He has seven moons to contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to the photos that will rock Sri Lanka

so very well made

persuading her to speak about the events of that night for the first time

His story begins in the heart of old barcelona

Recommended for 18+