Review“Is there any Canadian novel as compelling and as good at capturing youthful anxieties as J. D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye? Absolutely.…Leonard Cohen’s first novel, The Favourite Game.…One of the 10 best Canadian novels of the 20th century.…”— Globe and Mail (January 2000)“The Favourite Game is a morally brave book, intimate and unflinching.…Leonard Cohen sustains the highest level of poetic craftsmanship throughout.”— Paul Quarrington“He is a writer of terrific energy and colour, a Rabelaisian comic and a visualiser of some memorable scenes.”— The Observer (U.K.)“It is the kind of book that becomes a law unto itself, simply because there is nothing with which to compare it.”— Calgary AlbertanFrom the Paperback edition.Product DescriptionIn this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. Life for Breavman is made up of dazzling colour – a series of motion pictures fed through a high-speed projector: the half-understood death of his father; the adult games of love and war, with their infinite capacity for fantasy and cruelty; his secret experiments with hypnotism; the night-long adventures with Krantz, his beloved comrade and confidant. Later, achieving literary fame as a college student, Breavman does penance through manual labour, but ultimately flees to New York. And although he has loved the bodies of many women, it is only when he meets Shell, whom he awakens to her own beauty, that he discovers the totality of love and its demands, and comes to terms with the sacrifices he must make.From the Paperback edition.

Leonard Cohen's two classic novels now available together in this collector's edition.This beautifully designed collector's hardcover edition brings together Leonard Cohen's acclaimed novels in a single volume. Published originally in 1963 and 1966, these novels have had a recent resurgence of popularity and sales around the world. In his unforgettable debut novel, The Favourite Game, Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. Beautiful Losers is Cohen's classic novel of the sixties. Funny, harrowing, and deeply moving, it is his most defiant and uninhibited work.From the Hardcover edition.

A Favourite of the Gods is the story of two generations of a single family, united by a strong matrilineal bond but divided by the customs of their differing nationalities. Anna Howland, the matriarch and American heiress, born in the 1870s to a prominent, liberal New England family marries an Italian prince and makes her home in Rome; her daughter Constanza, the favorite of the title, inherits her mother's beauty, intelligence, and wealth, along with her father's Catholicism, which she soon rejects in the course of her unconventional but first-rate education. When disaster strikes, Anna and the prince fall back on the conventional standards of behavior of their disparate cultures; Constanza, with her European upbringing, is free to develop her own moral code, to plot her own course in life, and she does so with fantastic daring, making an unconventional life for herself in England and on the continent at the time of the first world war and its aftermath. Her own...

The Queen’s Favourite A Historical Novel Based on the life of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester Enter into the dark, dangerous world of Tudor England and the Court, where friendships are rare and ambition is counted a virtue, not a vice. Where a man like Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, has to struggle every day to keep his position as favourite to a queen. Opportunist! Murderer! Adulterer! Traitor! Robert Dudley is born into a family stained by treason. With a grandfather executed by Henry VIII, Robert witnesses his own father, John Dudley, determined to raise his family from ignominy and obscurity. Placed in the Royal Household, Robert spends his childhood years at the Royal Court, playmate to the children of Henry VIII, Edward and Elizabeth Tudor. Robert sees his father grow in power and influence, but when John tries to make Lady Jane Grey queen, he finds that Mary Tudor, eldest daughter of Henry VIII, is a formidable opponent. Imprisoned and sentenced to death, the future looks bleak for the Dudleys. But when the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth, ascends the throne, Robert fortunes change. Their friendship renewed, he and Elizabeth soon set tongues wagging across Europe with their scandalous behaviour. But when Robert’s wife dies in mysterious circumstances, the rumours grow worse, and he fears that Elizabeth might abandon him and he sees his hopes of becoming her husband fading. Unwilling to marry him, but not prepared to let him go, Elizabeth keeps Robert jealously by her side. Forced to live a double life and keep his love affairs secret, Robert must sacrifice the thing he desires most – a family. He throws himself into state affairs, desperate to acquire a respectable reputation before it is too late. Can he achieve the position he has always craved, or is he doomed to forever remain the despised favourite of a Tudor queen? Perfect for those who love the historical fiction novels of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir. Currently only available as a Kindle eBook. Revised Second Edition. About the Author Laura Dowers is a proofreader and copywriter who adores history and historical fiction. Her first novel, 'The Queen's Favourite', was a true labour of love, being more than 15 years in the writing. Her most recent book is a non-fiction guide to writing historical fiction, and based on her own experiences. She has several other writing projects that are works in progress, and hopes that the next novel takes considerably less time to write than the first one. Laura lives in London. 

This lovely book of poetry brings together over 100 of the most celebrated and cherished poems of the 20th century. Including poets as diverse as John Betjeman and Ted Hughes, Siegfried Sassoon and Allan Ahlberg, and subjects from all avenues of life - war, family life, love, death, religion, the countryside, animals and comedy - the whole breadth of the nation's life during the 20th century is encapsulated here. Compiled and edited by Griff Rhys Jones as part of the successful The Nations Favourite Poems series, this book brings together the wealth of new and innovative poetry styles that flourished in the 20th Century.

In The Favourite, Mathew Lyons strips away the myth - and the self-mythologising - to find Sir Walter Ralegh in the one role in which his contemporaries knew him best: the courtier who could win the attention - and the heart - of Elizabeth I, while also being the 'most hated man in England'. Using first-hand accounts, Lyons uncovers the maze of ambition, desire and amorality in which Ralegh lived before he rose to fame - a brutal Elizabethan world riven with crime and corruption and riddled with traitors and spies.

Synopsis1928, SalfordIsabella has always been her father's favourite, but when she becomes involved with the new birth control movement, her father is scandalized. He tells himself that it will be merely a phase, but as Bella's enthusiasm for "fallen women" shows no sign of abating, her father loses patience and banishes her from the family home, where friendship and love are not as easy as they seem.