Javier Marías: Written Lives (Penguin Modern Classics) [2016] paperback Condition:New Elsie uses her spellbreaking to

Elsie uses her spellbreaking to push back against the aristocrats and help the common man

Linden retells the story of the modern climate change era decade by decade

but not to return her home this time

he harbors a secret obsession with Grace Loray's forbidden magic

most of the Japanese cabinet refused to surrender and vicious dogfights were still waged in the skies above Japan

Javier Marías: Written Lives (Penguin Modern Classics) [2016] paperback Condition:New Elsie uses her spellbreaking toIn these short, capricious and irreverent portraits of twenty six great writers, from Joyce to Nabokov, Sterne to Wilde, Javier Marias, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling A Heart So White, throws unexpected, and very human, light on authors too often enshrined in the halo of artistic sainthood. Revealing that Conrad actually hated sailing and Emily Bronte was so tough she was known as 'The Major', among many other stories