New Releases by Doris Lessing

Eighteen stories depicting the people and places of London, full of the observation and compassion characteristic of Lessing.

Vacationing at the seashore, a young boy''s endurance is tested to the limit when he tries to swim through an underwater tunnel.

This reader has been assembled by Doris Lessing herself, and it provides a representative introduction to both her fiction and non-fiction. The book enables the reader to see her ideas evolve over the years as they recur and develop throughout her work.

Doris Lessing recounts the cats that have moved and amused her, from the kittens that overran her childhood home to the wrenching decline of El Magnifico, whose story unfolds in a new essay, appearing here for the first time." "Particularly Cats also evokes Lessing''s own story in relation to cats, how they affect her and she them, communicating in a language of mood and gesture that all cat-owners will recognize.

An account of the Afghan resistance to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

A middle class Englishwoman joins a loose-knit group of political vagabonds and finds herself drawn into a situation she never intended.

A mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.

This murder story features a Rhodesian farmer''s wife and her houseboy.

Portrays the helpless collisions and alienations of the races in South Africa.

This is a collection of stories about Africa which evoke the people and continent, drawn from the author''s experiences as a child in Southern Rhodesia.

In this collection of stories, which spans four decades, Doris Lessing''s unique gift for observation, her wit, her compassion and remarkable ability to illuminate the complexities of human life are all displayed.

A fascinating look inside the mind of a man who is supposedly "mad."

The fifth book in the Children of Violence series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. The other books are Martha Quest, A Proper Marriage, A Ripple from the Storm and Landlocked.

The third book in the "Children of Violence" series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. The other books are "Martha Quest", "A Proper Marriage", "Landlocked" and "The Four-Gated City".