"A wise and beautiful book about what it feels like to be alive-I really loved it."-Zadie Smith
"Maggie Gee's account of her life as a writer cuts to the bone as she relives triumphs, rejections, despair and renewal. It's a wonderful...
Ritual murders. Ancient enemies. A powerful secret. Two ritual murders — one in Rome and one in Jerusalem — rekindle an ancient rivalry between modern-day secret societies for knowledge lost at the fall of the Third Reich. Detective Antoine...
Since his first collection of stories, Descent of Man, appeared in 1979, T.C. Boyle has become an acknowledged master of the form who has transformed the nature of short fiction in our time. Among the fourteen tales in his seventh collection are...
The conclusion of the story begun in "The Silence of Medair". A glossary of terms can be found at the end of the book.
Medair an Rynstar wants only to leave.
Five hundred years after the Empire she...
The Parson was not published in Anna Kavan’s lifetime, but found after her death in manuscript form. Thought to have been written between the mid 50s and early 60s, it presages, through its undertones and imagery, some of Kavan’s last and most...
Losing It - 3.5
A few months after being honorably discharged from the military, Jackson Hunt is still struggling to adjust back to the real world. He needs to get a job and find a sense of normalcy if he’s going to keep his own demons...
The classic Jack Higgins thriller — now available as an ebook
Locals call it the Rio das Mortes — the treacherous Brazilian river where the Huna tribe is known to kill all who trespass. Despite the river’s deadly reputation, pilot Neil...