
A Cook's Tour
Anthony Bourdain, life-long line cook and bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential, sets off to eat his way around the world. But being Anthony B...
View full detailsAnthony Bourdain, life-long line cook and bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential, sets off to eat his way around the world. But being Anthony B...
View full detailstranslated by Alfred Birnbaum A marvellous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched...
View full detailsBy turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjur...
View full detailsIn surprising turns through different American cities, mindsets, and eras, and through the strange rhythms of dreaming, the celebrated poet Elizabe...
View full detailsThis rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century countercultural literary movement. Writi...
View full detailsScholar, theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber is one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. He believed that the deepest reality...
View full detailsTed Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written...
View full detailsOn a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a faraway island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag...
View full detailsIt was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, provin...
View full detailsFocas #4 aims to interrogate the larger socio-political reverberations of art projects, to interrogate what is Beyond the Event. This process invol...
View full detailsThe French celebrate food and drink more than any other people, and Peter Mayle shows us just how contagious their enthusiasm can be. We visit the ...
View full detailsWhen the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, a new era in human history opened. Wri...
View full detailsFive people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. In her highly acclaimed and most ambitious book to date, the brill...
View full detailsIn his most captivating book to date, Adam Phillips explores mankind's on-going fascination with ideas of escape. Taking as his starting point the ...
View full detailsThis enthralling book is the first biography in English of Bill Evans, one of the most influential of all jazz pianists. Peter Pettinger, himself a...
View full detailsWritten over the course of 1904-1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese soci...
View full detailsTwo hundred and twenty tales from medieval Japan--tales that welcome us into a fabulous faraway world populated by saints, scoundrels, ghosts, magi...
View full detailsKeats contains a full selection of Keats's work, including his lyric poems, narrative poems, letters, and an index of first lines.Hardback: 256 Pag...
View full detailsLike so many of her young compatriots, Lili Lin lives on the margins of society she has been jailed for having a corrupt lifestyle and hooliganism,...
View full detailsIn this enchanting and comprehensive collection, the lullabies we all were rocked to sleep with, such as "Rock-a-Bye Baby" and "Hush Little Baby, D...
View full detailsMarcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles of an ...
View full detailsNew York City has always been a larger-than-life, half-mythical place, and this collection offers an appropriately stunning mosaic of its many inca...
View full detailsIn this provocative and thoughtful anthology, many voices join in illuminating the remarkably vast and varied American West. The verse collected he...
View full detailsHas psychoanalysis failed to keep its promise? What are psychoanalysis and literature good for? And what, if anything, have they got to do with eac...
View full detailstranslated by C. H. Brewitt-Taylor This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death forms part of the inde...
View full detailstranslated by C. H. Brewitt-Taylor This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death forms part of the inde...
View full detailsPart romance, part detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart tells the story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited love. K is madly in love with h...
View full detailsThe Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (...
View full detailstranslated by Jean Stoner A bright star of the Italian Renaissance, Girolamo Cardano was an internationally-sought-after astrologer, physician, and...
View full detailsWhen fifteen-year-old Beth Week's family is attacked by a grizzly, her father becomes increasingly violent, making him a danger to his neighbors, h...
View full detailsDurtal, a shy, censorious man, is writing a biography of Gilles de Rais, the monstrous fifteenth-century child-murderer thought to be the original ...
View full detailsFrom the bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams comes this harrowing tale of one man's struggle to cope in a wired world, even as his own biologic...
View full detailstranslated by John Sturrock The Life of Henry Brulard is the autobiography of one of France's greatest writers, Stendhal, author of The Red and th...
View full detailsThis powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis in the early postwar years probes the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial so...
View full detailsApril is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain... Published in...
View full detailsPart fiction, part travelogue, the narrator of this compelling masterpiece pursues his solitary, eccentric course from England to Italy and beyond,...
View full detailstranslated by William Weaver When vain, obsessive and guilt-ridden Zeno Cosini seeks help for his neuroses, his psychoanalyst suggests he writes hi...
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