Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway’s last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the...
When the irresistible force of a giant corporation like Titanic Shoe meets an immovable, but tottering, object like the respectable shoe firm of Julien Kahn, something's got to give — and something does, explosively, surprisingly.
Here is an...
In a remote house on the English Channel coast, a group of people, handsome and young, are gathered: Scylla Taverner, ‘sometimes a witch and sometimes a bitch’, her potential lover Picus, her brother Felix and two other friends. Into their close...
In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern classic of Scottish literature about a doomed adolescent growing up in the mid-20th century — featuring a new introduction by Maggie O’Farrell,...
Dostoevsky's Demons, probably the greatest novel ever inspired by a revolutionary conspiracy, was not the book that its author had intended to write. The story of how it came into being in its present form is rather a complicated one, involving...
The award-winning translation of Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel.The Brothers Karamazov is a passionate philosophical novel set in 19th century Russia, that enters deeply into the ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. It is a...
Forensic sculptor Toni Sullivan's job takes her to crime scenes to put faces to victims. Shaping the clay always gives her a sense of purpose and order, but that all changes when she feels a mysterious connection to the victim found on Red Bud...