The Distance of the Moon

Italo Calvino

Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful short stories taken from Calvino's Cosmicomics....

The Eye of the Storm

Patrick White

A savage exploration of family relationships from the Nobel Prize-winning Patrick WhiteElizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships- her existence becomes charged with a meaning which communicates itse...