D. M. Thomas

A psychological portrait of Lisa Erdman begins with an exchange of letters between her psychiatrist, Sigmund Freud, and his colleagues, continues through her self-revealing poetry and prose, and ends with her death in the ravines at Babi Yar

The White Hotel

A speculative reconstruction of the Kennedy assassination interweaves fact and fiction to explore and challenge the leading conspiracy theories. By the author of The White Hotel. 17,500 first printing.

Flying in to Love

The White Hotel is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. A horrifying yet restrained narrative to the holocaust, this is a vision of the wounds of our century, and an attempt to heal them.

Alexander Pushkin’s epic magic-realist tale is brought vividly to life in this superb translation by D. M. Thomas. Drawing on the Russian folklore of Pushkin’s childhood, the poem recounts the abduction of Princess Ludmila by the evil wizard Chernomor and the attempt by the brave knight Ruslan to rescue his bride. Ruslan must embark on a perilous quest, encountering an intriguing cast of characters – including a hermit, a witch and a pugnacious floating head – before he can be reunited with his love. Ruslan and Ludmila is a vibrantly colourful blend of traditional chivalry, outrageous humour and exciting escapades: a gorgeous display of the poet's astonishing imagination.

Ruslan and Ludmila

Vienna in the early 20th century was, in the words of our protagonist and narrator, a soulless, syphilitic whore of a city; a turbulent and bubbling melting pot of races, creeds and politics, rapidly expanding as it strained to contain the ever-increasing multitudes. In such places the nightmare moments of modern history are conceived. This novel is a fictionalised account of those who were to change the very collective psyche of mankind. It is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the sometimes thin dividing line between becoming good or evil. D.M. Thomas is a British novelist and poet, born and living in Cornwall. His novel The White Hotel was an international bestseller and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is rightly considered a modern classic, translated into more than 30 languages. John Updike said of the book: ‘Astonishing … A forthright sensuality mixed with a fine historical feeling for the nightmare moments in modern history, a dreamlike fluidity and quickness’; the statement could equally be applied to Hunters in the Snow.

Hunters in the Snow

At the end of a sleepless night, two other improvisations, of an unexpected kind ar unfolded by the storyteller, who has walked the tightrope of this story as dangerously as he walks the tightrope of his life, and as the world walks over the Cold War abyss.

Ararat

The Devil and the Floral Dance

Nobel Laureate for Literature, campaigner for human rights, advocate of free speech and merciless critic of the Soviet system, Alexander Solzhenitsyn has lived a life which will serve as a permanent reminder of the crimes committed in the name of Communism. A completely absorbing portrait of one of the few defining figures of the 20th century. D.M. Thomas's biography is the story not just of one of the century's most influential writers but the history of Russia itself.

A Century in His Life

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Sandi Fellman

A crimson fish wrestles a man. A horned demon stares menacingly. These vivid scenes are tattoos, created in pain, incised in the flesh of the Yakuza, Japan's feared secret society of gangsters. They are the visions of the Irezumi, the legendary tattoo artists, who spend years creating living masterpieces. Photographer Sandi Fellman describes this strange and violent world both in her text and in her stunning, large Polaroid photographs.

The Japanese Tattoo

In this imaginative and deftly constructed pattern of memories, poems, ideas, reflections and dreams, D.M. Thomas explores his past, emotions, his erotic imagination, and sources of his artistic inspiration. A provocative, unconventional, startling and accessible self-portrait.

A Memoir

Memories and Hallucinations

Traces the "non-making" of the author's novel White Hotel into a film, 1981-2008.

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