City of Night Iain Banks Coleridge: Early Visions won the

Coleridge: Early Visions won the 1989 Whitbread Prize for book of the year

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Ramage and the Drumbeat takes the brave Lord Ramage to the new world where he becomes embroiled in a series of electrifying sea battles and hazardous political shenanigans

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City of Night Iain Banks Coleridge: Early Visions won theAn innovative description of the urban underworld of male prostitution. Rechy portrays a nameless narrator as he travels through several US cities, meeting a collection of unforgettable characters, from drag queens and criminals to the bedridden Professor and Lance O'Hara, once Hollywood's biggest star. Rechy describes this world with brutal candour and understanding but without sentimentality or self pity, in a prose that is highly personal, vivid