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	Next Big Thing Vince Gill     Availability: refer to store website Shipping: refer to store website	£8.49 at cdjungle.com Not rated yet Info All items of this shop
	Next Big Thing, The Herz is 73 and facing the difficult question: what is he going to do with the rest of his life? How is it all going to end? He could propose marriage to an old friend; he could travel; he could sell his flat, move, start afresh. He must do something with the time left - but what? author: Brookner, Anita; publisher: Penguin     Availability: refer to store website Shipping: refer to store website	£5.59 at countrybookshop.co.uk  4.0/5 Info All items of this shop
	Next Big Thing, The author: Waite, Judy; publisher: Oxf.U.P.     Availability: refer to store website Shipping: refer to store website	£4.49 at countrybookshop.co.uk  4.0/5 Info All items of this shop
	Oxford University Press The Next Big Thing Pages: 288, Paperback, Oxford University Press     Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Shipping: refer to store website	£4.79 at Amazon.co.uk  4.5/5 Info All items of this shop
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	Penguin Books Ltd The Next Big Thing After a lifetime of personal restraint and servitude, Julius Hertz, the protagonist of Anita Brokkner's new novel <I>The Next Best Thing</I> is in a quandary. Finally free to make his own decisions and choices in life, he rattles around his central London flat, pounds the familiar streets and sits quietly on the same park bench on nodding terms with the world. At 73, he decides it is time for action of some kind. Time to move on, physically and spiritually. The big question is, where and with whom?<p> As Hertz struggles with his self-induced dilemma, he looks back over his life, searching for an answer. If he can only think things through rationally, perhaps the way forward was always there, hidden somewhere in the past, waiting for him to finally realise its significance? With a mixture of pathos and mild distaste, he reflects on his distant, ordered childhood in pre-war Germany, his unrequited love for his beautiful, haughty cousin Fanny, to whom, in desperate middle age, he would rashly propose. He remembers the family's enforced exile to London, their role as polite refugees, obligated to kindly compatriots. And then the onset of his brother's ­illness­, precipitating the end of his career as a concert pianist, the crumbling of his mother's dreams and his own rise as family carer. And his brief respite marriage to Josie whose pragmatism could never dovetail with his own servility. <p> Anita Brookner has, herself, moved on with <I>The Next Big Thing</I>. Her 21st novel is a finely wrought, painfully elegant treatise on old age: the wearing loneliness, the reflections, regrets and recriminations and the occasional stirrings of now-fading desires. And instead of the familiar middle-aged Brookner women, the protagonist is a man, albeit a passive and docile creature, whose lonely life has been shaped at every turn by the needs of others. Reading <I>The Next Big Thing</I> is not an easy experience. Brookner has stripped her characters of their flesh and, with her unique insight, let us into the distant recesses of their minds, their hearts and their souls, so often revealing how each can harbour its own conflicting desires. The only certainty in life is the inevitability of our end--in the meantime our duty to ourselves must be one of brutal self-honesty and personal fulfilment.--<I>Carey Green</I>     Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Shipping: refer to store website	£5.59 at Amazon.co.uk  4.5/5 Info All items of this shop
	Pelican Publishing Co ,U.S. The Blockbuster Toy: How to Invent the Next Big Thing Pages: 269, Paperback, Pelican Publishing Co ,U.S.     Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Shipping: refer to store website	£10.55 at Amazon.co.uk  4.5/5 Info All items of this shop
	Next Big Thing, The author: Brookner, Anita; publisher: Chivers Audio Books     Availability: refer to store website Shipping: refer to store website	£45.95 at countrybookshop.co.uk  4.0/5 Info All items of this shop
	Chivers Audio Books The Next Big Thing: Complete & Unabridged After a lifetime of personal restraint and servitude, Julius Hertz, the protagonist of Anita Brokkner's new novel <I>The Next Best Thing</I> is in a quandary. Finally free to make his own decisions and choices in life, he rattles around his central London flat, pounds the familiar streets and sits quietly on the same park bench on nodding terms with the world. At 73, he decides it is time for action of some kind. Time to move on, physically and spiritually. The big question is, where and with whom?<p> As Hertz struggles with his self-induced dilemma, he looks back over his life, searching for an answer. If he can only think things through rationally, perhaps the way forward was always there, hidden somewhere in the past, waiting for him to finally realise its significance? With a mixture of pathos and mild distaste, he reflects on his distant, ordered childhood in pre-war Germany, his unrequited love for his beautiful, haughty cousin Fanny, to whom, in desperate middle age, he would rashly propose. He remembers the family's enforced exile to London, their role as polite refugees, obligated to kindly compatriots. And then the onset of his brother's ­illness­, precipitating the end of his career as a concert pianist, the crumbling of his mother's dreams and his own rise as family carer. And his brief respite marriage to Josie whose pragmatism could never dovetail with his own servility. <p> Anita Brookner has, herself, moved on with <I>The Next Big Thing</I>. Her 21st novel is a finely wrought, painfully elegant treatise on old age: the wearing loneliness, the reflections, regrets and recriminations and the occasional stirrings of now-fading desires. And instead of the familiar middle-aged Brookner women, the protagonist is a man, albeit a passive and docile creature, whose lonely life has been shaped at every turn by the needs of others. Reading <I>The Next Big Thing</I> is not an easy experience. Brookner has stripped her characters of their flesh and, with her unique insight, let us into the distant recesses of their minds, their hearts and their souls, so often revealing how each can harbour its own conflicting desires. The only certainty in life is the inevitability of our end--in the meantime our duty to ourselves must be one of brutal self-honesty and personal fulfilment.--<I>Carey Green</I>     Availability: In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served. Shipping: refer to store website	£51.29 at Amazon.co.uk  4.5/5 Info All items of this shop
	Premium Publishing,W12 The Next Big Thing: A Collection of Essays, Musings and Rants on the Future of British Broadcasting Pages: 128, Paperback, Premium Publishing,W12     Availability: In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served. Shipping: refer to store website	£11.98 at Amazon.co.uk  4.5/5 Info All items of this shop
	Waterbrook Press Too Small to Ignore: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing Pages: 268, Hardcover, Waterbrook Press     Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Shipping: refer to store website	£8.02 at Amazon.co.uk  4.5/5 Info All items of this shop