This riveting novel tells of the seduction of a British schoolgirl by a dashing soldier, John Montraville, who brings her to America and there abandons her, pregnant and ill.
Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp Murry was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield.
''Ulysses'' takes place in a single day, 16 June 1904, also known as Bloomsday, it sets the characters and incidents of the Odyssey of Homer in modern Dublin and represents Odysseus (Ulysses), Penelope and Telemachus in the characters of Leopold Bloom, his wife Molly Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, and contrasts them with their lofty models.
Dissatisfied with life in her rural Wisconsin home, 18-year-old Caroline moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous actress.
In a fictionalization of Burroughs'' own difficulties in finding a job prior to becoming a best-selling writer, Jimmy Torrance attempts to make a career for himself in 1921 Chicago, where criminals seem to be everywhere!
The unstoppable Ruby Darke returns as old enemies threaten her family in The Edge, a gripping gangland thriller from top ten bestselling author Jessie Keane.
Longlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2021'Excellent, lucid, intelligent and gripping' - Scotsman'An utterly riveting read' - Guardian, Thriller of the Month6 December 1993.
Stevie Stevenson graduates from college and embraces the liberating California lifestyle in award-winning author April Sinclair's follow-up to her "e;vivid and brilliant"e; (San Francisco Review of Books) debut novel Coffee Will Make You BlackGrowing up black in 1960s Chicago, Jean "e;Stevie"e; Stevenson came of age amid the tumult of the civil rights movement, learning to value not just her race and gender but her sexuality as well.
"e;A funny, fresh novel about growing up African-American in 1960s Chicago"e; by an author who "e;writes like Terry McMillan's kid sister"e; (Entertainment Weekly).
A wanderer struggles to understand his uncle's downfall six years after a financial catastropheGeorge Chell has never met a man as witty, as charming, or as brilliant as his uncle.
An art teacher searches for meaning in a strange town as his wife spirals into madness in this stunning novel from Man Booker Prize-winning author David StoreyColin Freestone had not planned to live in northern England.
Witty, terrifying, and utterly cool, Yablonsky's roman a clef is a searing, hyperreal account of the heroin underground in 1980s ManhattanTold with dark humor and unremitting honesty, Linda Yablonsky's riveting first novel explores the New York art and postpunk music world of the early 1980s from deep within.
A young man with a questionable past must survive a nightmare of terror and torture in this dark and powerful thriller from one of Canada's most acclaimed contemporary authorsThe Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, Canada, is about as close to urban hell as you can get in the Western Hemisphere.
Voices from the margins of American life tell tales of trickery, betrayal, sex, and defeat in these short monologues by "e;a spokesman for the unspeakable"e; (New York magazine).
In London, racial hatred leads to a mugging, a murder, and a mystery in a powerful novel of intolerance, loss, and self-discovery by the bestselling author of To Sir, With LoveIdentical twins Jack and Dave Bennett enjoy nothing better than a rowdy night out in London listening to hot jazz, hoisting a few pints, flirting with girls .
A group of worldly New Yorkers inherit a friend's last loverA year after the AIDS-related death of filmmaker Clarence Laird, known to friends as Angel Clare, his young boyfriend, Michael, is still in deep mourning.
Reminiscing after his mother's death, Benny Kramer remembers the chaos and hardships of his youth, indelibly marked by a brief turn as a bootleggerFor most of his life, Benny Kramer's mother was an inescapable presence in his life.
Benny Kramer returns, this time turning to one of his oldest friends to save the life of Kramer's sonThough his trip from New York to Philadelphia is for business, Benny Kramer has also planned a rendezvous not with a mistress, but with one of the city's finest doctors.
A veteran British journalist living in Hong Kong investigates the disappearance of a student protestor amidst the pro-democracy demonstrations in this unsettling new novel from the acclaimed author of The ForgivenAfter twenty years as an ex-pat reporter in Hong Kong, Adrian Gyle has almost nothing to show for it.
* READ THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE FILM PRECIOUS *This 25th Anniversary Edition includes a new preface from Tayari Jones, and a new afterword by the author.
***AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4's OPEN BOOK***The 'propulsive, haunting' and 'gripping' (Oprah) rediscovered classic that exposes the dark heart of America for an inncocent Black man on the run from the policeFred Daniels, a black man, is randomly picked up by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago suburb.
VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIES Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKFrom author of NYT bestseller, THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STOREA NATIONAL BOOK AWARD winner & WINNER OF THE 2024 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRIZE FOR AMERICAN FICTIONTOP TEN books of the year, NEW YORK TIMES & WASHINGTON POST'Brilliantly imagined, larger than life, a tragicomedic epic.
'A slice of scary, escapist fun' Observer'The twists and turns are never-ending' Daily Mail'An unnervingly plausible and scintillatingly paced thriller' Radio Times'A phenomenal thriller, meticulously plotted and brilliantly realised' Clare Mackintosh, Books of the Year_______________________________If you can hear it, your time is running out.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHOR'S CLUB FIRST NOVEL AWARD, THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE and THE HWA DEBUT CROWN AWARD'A new classic' SARA COLLINS, author of THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON'Impassioned.
**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Mark Renton from Trainspotting is back and he s finally a success An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with his life.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, Ulysses is James Joyce's towering modernist masterpiece, a bold, richly layered reimagining of Homer's Odyssey set over the course of a single day in Dublin.
