A house gun, like a house cat: a fact of ordinary life, today. How else can you defend yourself against losing your hi-fi equipment, your TV set and computer? The respected Executive Director of an insurance company, Harald, and his doctor wife,...
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A mesmerizing tale of love and jealousy by Portugal’s most acclaimed young novelist.
Set in an unnamed Portuguese village against a backdrop of severe rural poverty, The Implacable Order of Things is told from the various points of...
The Monk and the Hangman's...
"A book with pace and wit, real tension…and a big on-screen climax."From a celebrity performer, bestselling author of Popcorn and Inconceivable, a stunning satire on the modern obsession with fame.One house. Ten contestants. Thirty...
"Pixel Juice" is a selection of fifty stories from Jeff Noon's fertile imagination, each one strange, telling, disturbing or sometimes just plain weird. Most of the tales are surprising such as finding an "off" switch for the human...
One person only had faith in him, but that was the girl in the snappy blue...
This is something that happens at least once to every attractive girl. But in this case she had a good reason for accepting the...
No one is smarter or funnier about the absurdities and agonies of modern love.
Hilda Wolitzer
A staple in the literary scene for over forty years, Jonathan Baumbach’s latest collection, Flight of Brothers, is a wonderful addition to his...
"Andrés Barba needs no introduction. He has his own intentional world perfectly contained and a literary gift that belies his age." — Mario Vargas Llosa
"A story that has been described as an explosive clash between Pavese's The Beautiful...
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A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide to Saving the World
In the not-too-distant future, competing giant fast food factions rule the world. Leonard works for Neetsa Pizza, the Pythagorean pizza chain, in a lonely but highly surveilled home office, answering calls on his complaints hotline. It’s a boring...