Marusya Tatarovich, a young Russian woman, falls unsuccessfully in love with a Jew, Tsekhnovitser. She gets bored with the dull medical student she does marry, is divorced, and has a common-law marriage and son by the pop singer Razudalov. She...
A Kestrel for a Knave is a novel by English author Barry Hines, published in 1968. Set in an unspecified mining area in Northern England, the book follows Billy Casper, a young working-class boy troubled at home and at school, who finds and trains a...
First on time his financial caper — NOT A PENNY MORE, NOT A PENNY LESS. Then a political thriller — SHALL WE TELL THE PRESIDENT? Then, in the autumn of 1979, KANE AND ABEL, the saga of two men from totally different backgrounds that topped the...
Melvyn Bragg's A Son of War begins where A Soldier's Return ended. The previous novel--a moving account of the struggles, social and psychological, faced by a Burma veteran returning to Cumbrian hometown life with his wife and six-year-old...
First published in 1938 in Story magazine as a wake-up call warning Americans of the true nature of the Nazi menace, this punchy epistolary tale enacts a stunning drama of friendship, betrayal and vengeance.
In 1932, San Francisco art-gallery...