The concept of law lies at the heart of our social and political life, shaping the character of our community and underlying issues from racism and abortion to human rights and international war.
But what actually is law? A set of naturally...
Bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk channels both Stephen King and John Cheever in this sinister and hilarious short story, straight from the passive-aggressive front lines of modern marriage, where a wife’s frustration, along with the family cat,...
She does Britain's dirty work, but this time she needs help. Beatrix Rose, meet John Milton....
Beatrix Rose has a knack for making the British government's problems go away. When the assassin is sent to Venezuela to track down a missing scientist,...
Elanor Robinson's life had shattered when Father volunteered for the Great War, leaving her alone with a woman he had just married. Then the letter had come that told of her father's death in the trenches and though Eleanor thought things...
From the Hugo Award-winner comes a collection of six of her finest short works--"Psiren," "The Peddler's Apprentice," "Phoenix in the Ashes," "The Storm King," "Mother and Child," and "Voices from the...
The 16 stories in this stellar volume in Akashic's noir series paint a vivid portrait of the underside of Phoenix, where the gulf between rich and poor ensures [c]rime, and lots of it, as Millikin observes in his introduction. The writers make...