“I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art
The extraordinary new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day
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Perec produced some of the most entertaining essays of the age
he watches powerlessly as three strangers take his father away
Arabian Sands Rosalind Harvey “I set out to write"Following worthily in the tradition of Burton, Lawrence, Philby and Thomas, [Arabian Sands] is, very likely, the book about Arabia to end all books about Arabia." The Daily Telegraph Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesiger's record of his extraordinary journey through the parched "Empty Quarter" of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western life"the machines, the calling cards, the meticulously