Now back in print to coincide with the publication of his new novel, 86d, Dan Fantes Spitting Off Tall Buildings is the story of aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante, who leaves sunny Los Angeles for cold, hard New York City.
A streetwise Hollywood producer will do anything to stay on top in this "e;daring and unapologetic depiction of how it is to be Black in La-La-Land"e; (Rosie Perez).
A breathtaking free fall into the long-buried (and fictional) history of a utopian era in American lighter-than-air travel, as told by its death-defying, aero-acrobatic heroes.
"e;Motherland Hotel is a startling masterpiece, a perfect existential nightmare, the portrait of a soul lost on the threshold of an ever-postponed Eden.
Theo, our scruffy, big-hearted, and quick-witted heroine, is not so much down on her luck as delivered luckless into a culture where the winners and losers have already been decided.
Sent from London to New York to bring a dying friend's message to his daughter, Mary, Sam Dean arrives in Queens, steeped in a mesh of Caribbean and Hispanic culture, looking forward to reconnecting with family and old friends.
'A moving, authentic, humane novel which raises fundamental questions about what it means to be kind in an unkind world' Guardian____________________________________________The Pizzeria Vesuvio looks like any other Italian restaurant in London - with a few small differences.
A female Trainspotting about a young woman who is a romantic but is also determined to overcome the depression of inner-city living in 90s Britain and carve out a life for herself - even if it does means she must become a selfish person to do so.
'Few writers in the genre today have Hill's gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace' Donna Leon, Sunday TimesHurrying out of St Monkey's church one day, Joe Sixsmith stumbles across a boy's corpse in a cardboard box and into more trouble than he's ever known.
'Gripping' Curtis Sittenfeld * 'Electrifying' Taylor Jenkins Reid * 'Remarkable' Kevin Kwan * 'Stunning' Sunday Times * 'Brilliant' Pandora Sykes In South Korea, where impossible beauty standards and ruthless social hierarchies dictate your every move, four women are balancing on a razor's edge:Kyuri, a beautiful 'room salon' girl paid to entertain wealthy businessmen after hours.
'Gripping' Curtis Sittenfeld * 'Electrifying' Taylor Jenkins Reid * 'Remarkable' Kevin Kwan * 'Stunning' Sunday Times * 'Brilliant' Pandora Sykes In South Korea, where impossible beauty standards and ruthless social hierarchies dictate your every move, four women are balancing on a razor's edge:Kyuri, a beautiful 'room salon' girl paid to entertain wealthy businessmen after hours.
'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday TimesJackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds.
Dieser Gesellschaftsroman von Charles Dickens - hier in neuer Übersetzung ins Deutsche - spielt in der fiktiven Stadt Coketown - ein Abbild des großen Textilzentrums Manchester und von Preston, wo Dickens sich während des Streiks im Januar 1854 aufhielt - und zeigt die Schwierigkeiten der beiden sozialen Schichten - Geschäftsbürgertum und Arbeiter - bei der Anpassung an die neue Wirtschaft, die aus der industriellen Revolution hervorgegangen ist.
Scharfe Spannung – knisterndes Verlangen – eine ungewöhnliche, heißkalte Liebe …Aufgewachsen auf einer kleinen Farm im Nirgendwo von Texas ist das Leben der kühlen, in sich gekehrten Prudence Winter von klein auf von harter Arbeit, den Hänseleien der Kleinstadtbewohner und dem Spott ihrer zahlreichen Brüder geprägt.
