Wood and Stone was John Cowper Powys' first novel published in 1915. It is no prentice-work however — the author was already in his forties.
The novel is set in the area of south Somerset that John Cowper Powys grew up in. The village of...
Who is Tyler Hawthorne?
Beneath the Caribbean Sea, a salvage diver hears an eerie voice calling to him from the wreckage of a nineteenth-century ship. In return for promised riches, the diver becomes the servant of Adrian deVille, Lord Varre, the...
In the economy class of a plane, the lives of two passengers intersect: Walid, a Palestinian writer, is returning to Gaza for the first time in thirty-eight years; Dana, an Israeli actress, is on her way back to Tel Aviv. As the night sky hurtles...
“A versatile prose stylist… [Aboulela’s] lyrical style and incisive portrayal of Muslims living in the West received praise from the Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee… [she is] a voice for multiculturalism.”—New York Times
It’s 2010...
In the heart of the Amazon, NRI operative Danielle Laidlaw makes an incredible discovery - a translucent Mayan stone generating massive waves of energy while counting down toward the infamous apocalyptic date of December 21st, 2012. And somewhere,...
A Native American sheriff chases a gang of bloodthirsty bank robbers.
Were it not for the copper mine, San Miguel wouldn’t exist. A hardscrabble town hewn out of the Arizona desert, it’s long on sand and short on excitement. For fun its...
Something is wrong on Tioga Island. It seems the dead aren't staying dead. A panicked call from a U.S. Senator's secret service escort results in the activation of Task Force Archangel, a top-secret Special Forces detachment charged with facing...
"The new generation of twenty-first-century African writers have now come of age. Without a doubt Habila is one of the best." — Emmanuel Dongala
In the oil-rich and environmentally devastated Nigerian Delta, the wife of a British oil...