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Red Dog is a West Australian, a lovable friendly red kelpie who found widespread fame as a result of his habit of traveling all over Western Australia, hitching rides over thousands of miles, settling in places for months at a time and adopting new families before heading off again to the next destination and another family--sometimes returning to say hello years later.

Extravagant, inventive, emotionally sweeping, Corelli's Mandolin is the story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history. The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs of men and the local saint periodically rises from his sarcophagus to cure the mad. Then the tide of World War II rolls onto the island's shores in the form of the conquering Italian army.Caught in the o...

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From the acclaimed author of "Corelli's Mandolin" comes a love story that is both wry and heartbreakingly sad. Narrated in the moment and in recollection, "A Partisan's Daughter" is also a commentary on the seductions and powers of storytelling.

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In his first novel since Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters. It's a place that has room for a professional blasphemer, where a brokenhe...

Louis de Bernieres' latest novel is now published in paperback. Narrated both in the moment and through recollection, it not only delivers a moving love story, but is a subtle commentary on storytelling, its seductions and powers, and its ultimately unavoidable dangers.

Louis de Berni¿s is the best-selling author of Captain Corelli¿s Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers¿ Prize, Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are The Dust That Falls From Dreams, Birds Without Wings and A Partisan¿s Daughter, a collection of stories, Notwithstanding, and a collection of poetry, Imagining Alexandria.

A Vintage Classics edition of the hugely popular 1995 novel, set during and after World War II on a Greek Island. 'A wonderful epic novel' "The Times

Louis de Berni¿s is the best-selling author of Captain Corelli¿s Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers¿ Prize, Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are The Dust That Falls From Dreams, Birds Without Wings and A Partisan¿s Daughter, a collection of stories, Notwithstanding, and a collection of poetry, Imagining Alexandria.

A farcical tragedy inextricably entangled with myth, Louis de Bernieres's brilliant first novel is an intoxicating story of life, love, and politics in South America. The war begins when the haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert the village river to fill her swimming pool, and the ensuing events become more and more weird and funny.

With the same ebullient storytelling, luxuriant prose, and irrepressible eroticism he brought to The War of Don Emmanuel s Nether Parts and Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord, Louis de Bernières continues his chronicle of Cochadebajo, the Andean village where macho philosophers, defrocked priests, and reformed (though hardly inactive) prostitutes cohabit in cheerful anarchy. But this unruly utopia is imperiled when the demon-harried Cardinal Guzman ...

While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, with whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfilment. But for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by his own private daemons, their hedonistic fiestas represent the epicentre of all heresies that must be challenged.

From the bestselling author of "Corelli's Mandolin" and "The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts" comes an iridescent gem of storytelling that is "by turns wacky, mystical, and altogether compelling" ("Washington Post"). A young philosophy professor is the only citizen in his country who dares to renounce his country's cocaine mafia. This makes him the object of several assassination attempts and a national hero. His popularity, however, does n...