Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart…” Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and of terrible despair and hope of redemption: and, in a remarkable transformation of the detective novel, we follow his agonised efforts to probe and confront both his own motives for, and the consequences of, his crime. The result is a tragic novel built out of a series of supremely dramatic scenes that illuminate the eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence: most especially our desire for self-expression and self-fulfilment, as against the constraints of morality and human laws; and our agonised awareness of the world’s harsh injustices and of our own mortality, as against the mysteries of divine justice and immortality. 9781840334487 Lucie Rie Tony Birks Paperback / softback Biography: arts & entertainment Stenlake Publishing NULL Stenlake Publishing 2009-08-01 00:00:00 20 40.00 902 279 x 220 x 20 224 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.),, ports. NULL https://gardlink.dmmserver.com/media/640/97818403/9781840334487.jpg 9781840918946 Leon: Leon Fast & Free : Free-from recipes for people who really like food John Vincent Hardback Leon Quick & easy cooking Conran Octopus Ltd NULL Octopus Publishing Group 2024-10-24 00:00:00 11 27.00 1386 200 x 262 x 36 304 pages NULL https://gardlink.dmmserver.com/media/640/97818409/9781840918946.jpg 'LEON was the first restaurant on the high street to pay attention to a new way of eating - championing gluten-, dairy- and sugar-free food. We've always done it. It's always done us and our customers good. Now it's time to stop it being a secret.' - John Vincent, LEON co-founderEach recipe in this beautiful cookbook is completely gluten-, dairy- and refined sugar-free, with many following a 'paleon' formula (LEON's version of Paleo). From recipes for gluten-free Spaghetti Vongole to chocolate beetroot cake, breakfast dahl to chicken and olive tagine, this book contains recipes for every meal of the day and every occasion, and proves that a free-from menu can be utterly delicious. 9781840919004 Hunger : The CULT CLASSIC that sold a QUARTER OF A MILLION copies Soje Hardback Thriller / suspense BRAZEN NULL Octopus Publishing Group 2025-06-26 00:00:00 0 16.99 0 208 pages NULL https://gardlink.dmmserver.com/media/640/97818409/9781840919004.jpg If you liked PARASITE or SQUID GAME, you've come to the right place... A sleeper hit with over a QUARTER OF A MILLION copies soldTHE KOREAN CULT CLASSIC PHENOMENON'Perfect reading for fans of BUTTER and Nobel-Prize winning THE VEGETARIAN' WATERSTONESI had chosen and no law, no gun, no God, could stop me now. Only him. A woman finds her man murdered on the street - and time stands still. Until she cradles his corpse to her chest and carries it home, where she disinfects every inch of skin before seating herself to begin. What happens next is a battle cry reverberating from this realm into the next, where the man is watching his own funeral. Together, the couple mourn a lifetime of working their fingers to the bone in a country sucking everyone dry - but a choice has been made. The woman is also eating, burying the body in her own where her soulmate will live again. The poetic novella that became a word-of-mouth sensation up and down Korea, HUNGER is a psychologically and philosophically thrilling cult classic that cuts to the very heart of love, money and the things they do to us. HUNGER led the bestseller charts for over half a year, breaking records for literary fiction in Korea. 9781840919103 The Crustacean : The spiky revenge narrative from Lolita's perspective Jang Jinyeong Hardback Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) BRAZEN NULL Octopus Publishing Group 2025-09-04 00:00:00 0 20.00 0 192 pages NULL https://gardlink.dmmserver.com/media/640/97818409/9781840919103.jpg THE MOST EXPLOSIVE BOOK OF THE YEARThe year's most spiky and powerful novel, told from the point of view of Lolita. When I was 13 I knew nothing about anything. I only cared about love. And the older man, who I thought I fell in love with, never told me he was divorced. I made that up on my own."Chichirim is a plain 13-year-old girl. An ordinary, misunderstood, lonely seventh-grader. A girl with a terrible secret. Her dad is worse than useless. And her mum spends all her days tattooing thick ugly eyebrows on old women. Her parents forget her birthday and her sister hates them so much she wishes they were dead. Chichirim does bad things at school. And still, no one cares. Until, one day, an older man picks her up on the side of the road. He tells her she is pretty. Her tells her what to do. Underneath her hard outer shell, her softness is being exploited and destroyed by the people she trusts and loves the most. "I want to come back as a crab. A crab's skin is made of bone and the flesh is inside the bone. But we're the opposite. We have bone inside flesh."THE CRUSTACEAN is an intricately-crafted novel exploring memory, exploitation, and the lasting effects of adult abuse and betrayal for readers of My Dark Vanessa and Tampa.
