The Age of Anxiety: A Novel - The Times BestsellerFirst conceived as an opera, 'The Age of Anxiety' deals with mythic and operatic themes including a maze, divine madness and long lost children. Hallucinations and soundscapes haunt this novel, which on one level is an extended meditation on manic genius and the dark art of creativity. This is the debut novel by The Who's lead guitarist, Pete Townshend.

Henry Blofeld has conveyed his unfailing enthusiasm for the game of cricket as a much loved broadcaster and journalist

Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components

with her mother at the foot of her bed to keep her company

a 15-year-old who suffers from Asperger's syndrome

princes and princesses are always on their best behaviour

With the freedom to write

the conflict and - let's be honest - the awkwardness that can come from telling your boss

while chewing on an Aztec chocolate bar and flicking through Shoot or Jackie magazine

this is the fictional tale of two young boys caught up in events beyond their control

who by the first century were trading between their far-flung islands

and fantasises about the ethereal Belgian heroine who saved her father

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