Life and Times of Michael K: A Novel

First published in 1983 and winner of the Booker Prize. Set in a turbulent South Africa, a young gardener decides to take his mother away from the violence towards a new life in the abandoned countryside, but finds that war follows wherever he goes. From the author of DUSKLANDS and IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY.

Faceless by Martina Cole

Eleven years ago Marie Carter was convicted of killing her two best friends. And she's paid the price. Now she is being released from prison. It's time to go home. But time has stood still for Marie, and she has nowhere to go. Her parents have disowned her; her friends have abandoned her; even her kids don't want to know. But some people out there do care - particularly when they know that Marie Carter is out for revenge...

The Mother Hunt by Rex Stout

A beautiful socialite widow comes to Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin to ask them to investigate why a baby has been abandoned on her doorstep, in a case that all too quickly leads to murder.

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Emma Darwin - The Mathematics of Love
[Unabridged audiobook with text]

 

Emma Darwin is an English novelist. She is the great-great-granddaughter of Charles and Emma Darwin.

 

Stephen Fairhurst is a Major returning from the brutality of Wellington’s Peninsular War to a world he tries desperately to be a part of again. Anna Ware is a fifteen year old girl all but abandoned by her feckless mother, forced to live with her uncle and drunken grandmother in a dilapidated ex-school...

How direct is the mapping between linguistic constructions and their interpretations? Much less direct than we commonly assume, according to Daniel Wedgwood. Extending current ideas from frameworks like Relevance Theory and Dynamic Syntax, Wedgwood upholds a radical position on modelling linguistic competence: the idea of interfacing static syntactic and semantic representations must be abandoned in favour of models of the incremental construction of meaning during parsing---which may involve significant pragmatic enrichment.