A book about violence and redemption, Joy Williams' new fiction tells the story of two drifters who break into Florida vacation homes while their owners are away, live there a while, then move...
Laura Brandon had promised her dying father she would visit Sarah Tolley, but her own agony is drowning out the old woman's ramblings. Her husband killed himself, and the only witness--her daughter, Emma--now refuses to speak. Desperate, Laura...
Stalingrad, November 1942.
Lieutenant Breuer dreams of returning home for Christmas. Since August, the Germans have been fighting the Soviets for control of the city on the Volga. Next spring, when battle resumes, the struggle will surely be...
The second book in the Red Gambit Series. Starting on the 13th August 1945, ‘Breakthrough’ follows the soldiers, sailors, and airmen of both sides in the struggle for supremacy in Europe. From Irish waters to the freezing Barents Sea, a hotel in...
Bruce Pike, or 'Pikelet', has lived all his short life in a tiny sawmilling town from where the thundering sea can be heard at night. He longs to be down there on the beach, amidst the pounding waves, but for some reason his parents forbid him....
A tragic boating accident forces Effie Greer to flee the small, New England community of Lake Gormlaith. Her boyfriend Max, a man with a shattered past and explosive temper, has accidentally killed a young black girl who had been visiting Gormlaith...
Mit zwölf Jahren lebt Edgar am Rand seiner Kindheit. Die Menschen in der Welt der Erwachsenen erscheinen ihm als »lose Puppen und totes Spielzeug«, und so lebt er »hart hinter den Träumen, dem Unwirklichen und Unerreichbaren«, bis er...
Losing her son in a lorry accident, a woman abandons her lover and her life on the Mexican border and becomes a domestic servant in Madrid; following an awkward ménage-à-trois, a timber agent is blackmailed into introducing his lover's boyfriend...