City of WondersEduardo Mendoza's classic novel about the birth of Barcelona as a world city embodied in the rise of the ambitious and unscrupulous Onofre Bouvila "Though historical in subject matter this story of Catalonian enterprise and Barcelonan ambition is thoroughly contemporary in spirit" Jonathan Franzen Stung by the realisation that his father is a fraud and a failure Onofre Bouvila leaves a life of rural poverty to seek his fortune in Barcelona. The year

amusing in the Punch style

The sun is down

offers trenchant commentary and concise

and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain

Policy now favours the big the corporate and the status quo at the expense of the small the inventive and the entrepreneurial

elitists and wicked witches

discipline and focus necessary to succeed in this competitive

where we start again after personal and public devastation

SHADOW VOICES takes the lives of more than sixty writers - by turns tragic

” And with that

this book will be irresistible to anyone with an interest in the art of visual communication

and the Dedication Ritual