The breakthrough story collection that established A. M. Homes as one of the most daring writers of her generation.
Originally published in 1990 to wide critical acclaim, this extraordinary first collection of stories by A. M. Homes...
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It’s been a year of upheaval for Edward Stanton, a forty-two-year-old with Asperger’s syndrome. He’s lost his job. His trusted therapist has retired. His best friends have moved away. And even his nightly ritual of watching Dragnet reruns has...
The "Little Nugget" of the title is one Ogden Ford, a spoilt, unpleasant child of overindulgent, wealthy parents; he is so dubbed due to his immense ransom value, being a prime target for kidnappers. The novel revolves around numerous schemes to...
"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns...
How does a smart cop outguess a smart criminal? Take the case of Sergeant Argen and the young girl, so sweet, so blameless, so undefended... who had been left for...
17 year old Ceres, a beautiful, poor girl in the Empire city of Delos, lives the harsh and unforgiving life of a commoner. By day she delivers her father’s forged weapons to the palace training grounds, and by night she secretly trains with them,...
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It is the end of the First century A.D. and the Roman Empire is expanding outwards. The military commander Marcus Ulpius Traianus was adopted by the unpopular Emperor Nerva in a political bid to prevent a revolt by the Praetorian Guard.On...
Set against the divergent landscape of British Columbia — from the splendours of nature to its immense dangers, from urban grease and grit to dry, desert towns — Clear Skies, No Wind, 100% Visibility examines human beings and their many...
Baumbach describes our grip on both the present and the future with What Comes Next. He brings alive the public and private faces of hostility and anxiety through Chris Steiner, a university student on the verge of losing everything, starting with...
There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile.
He made a crooked deal and he blew a crooked pile.
He dug a crooked hole.
And he sank the crooked isle.
And they all went to hell in a stew of crooked bile.
The Devil I Know...