Item category 1: Annex

In this new edition of a modern classic, Alex Massie's introduction highlights the importance that Jura had on the writing of one of the twentieth century's most important works of fiction.

Joyous and heart-breaking, restrained but sweeping, this is a profoundly moving story that charts one woman's quest for belonging amid the dazzle and tumult of America's greatest city.

Budsville's chocolate fair cancelled? No way, Alfie decides. The wise old plant tells him of the Roaring Rainforest in Arcania where he can collect chocolate seeds. But it won't be easy. Alfie first has to brave the vicious Spider Plants and the Forest Ogre. And even if he escapes from them, the ...

Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the nervous Frau Rosenthal, the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm, and the unassuming working-class coupl...

This novel is a thrilling tightrope walk between high comedy and bitter tragedy. After escaping from Prague, Josef shuffles into his cousin Sam's New York bedroom. Little does he realise that this is the beginning of an extraordinary friendship.

This is the first novel to explore the experience of attempting to illegally cross the US-Mexico border. Yesterday, Lydia had a bookshop. Yesterday, Lydia was married to a journalist. Yesterday, she was with everyone she loved most in the world. Today, her eight-year-old son Luca is all she has ...

'Ancient Light' is the story of a life rendered brilliantly vivid - the obsession and selfishness of young love and the terrifying shock of grief.