As Leo Tolstoy’s life draws to a tumultuous close, his tempestuous wife and most cunning disciple are locked in a whirlwind battle for the great man’s soul. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity and the reality...
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This is something that happens at least once to every attractive girl. But in this case she had a good reason for accepting the...
SEVEN TO REMEMBER... ANDREA — a girl who took everything her lover had to give her, and then took more... WYATT — a man drowning in his own success, grasping at one final moment of pleasure... NORRIE — who was so innocent and so trusting, and...
A story from one of Japan’s rising literary stars about memory, loss, and love, Touring the Land of the Dead is a mesmerizing combination of two tales, both told with stylistic inventiveness and breathtaking sensitivity.
Taichi was forced to...
A masterfully told tale of passion, jealousy, heroism and betrayal set in the gruesome trenches of World War I.
It is September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of letters to the...
When twenty-two-year-old Gerty Freely travels to Russia to work as a governess in early 1914, she has no idea of the vast political upheavals ahead, nor how completely her fate will be shaped by them. Yet as her intimacy with the charismatic...
Calloustown, the seventh collection from master raconteur George Singleton, who’s been praised by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as the “unchallenged king of the comic Southern short story,” finds the author at the absolute top of his game...
Winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award 2012.
Nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
Nominated for the Debut-Litzer Fiction Prize.
An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2012 Editors' Pick.
A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers...
At the turn of the century Théophile and Suzanne Valence sail into the Mexican copper-mining town of Santa Sofìa. Théo has travelled here to build a metal church designed by his mentor, the great engineer Gustave Eiffel. His wife Suzanne, wayward...