Fandango Virtual: 5 books

How do you make sense out of life? Some say that you can't and it’s not worth the effort; just take things as they come. Still, most of us do make some effort to find order to our lives. We think up reasons, concoct justifications or invent excuses to give our lives meaning. In this collection...

There are no reasons for unreasonable things. So the protagonists of this novel are told having found themselves setting out on an adventure that they really didn't plan. Like many people, Murdoch has always had a great affection for the two lead characters in Beckett's ‘Waiting for Godot’....

This is an omnibus edition containing two novels: Living with the Truth and its sequel, Stranger than Fiction. Jonathan Payne is a jaded bookseller at the end of a wasted life which has been spent in a dull north England seaside town. He could be an everyman, but seems to have missed the boat...

Whereas Living with the Truth was set in the drab reality that is Jonathan Payne’s life, its sequel, Stranger than Fiction, is set in the drab reality that is Jonathan’s afterlife. He awakes to find himself inside a landscape entirely generated by his own memories of his past which means it looks...

Picture, if you will, Jonathan Payne, probably the last person in the world you'd expect to be the lead character in anybody's novel, a jaded bookseller nearing the end of a wasted life which has been spent in a nondescript seaside town in the north of England. Jonathan could be an everyman,...