The Jewel in the Crown is a 1966 novel by Paul Scott that begins his Paradise Quartet. The Quartet novel sequence in four volumes is set in the last days of British rule in India during World War II.
After Children from the ZOO Station, the most honest and convincing first-hand account of addiction. Without moralizing, without justifying, the author describes the milieu of a drug addict. Hopefully he's still out of hell...
The debut novel by this extremely popular Czech writer is a humorous story about growing up in communist Czechia, told from the perspective of a boy named Kvid. The first Croatian edition of the book.