
A Brief History Of Seven Killings
Jamaica, 1976. Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. From th...
View full detailsJamaica, 1976. Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. From th...
View full details"Early in my working life I had discovered that salesmanship consisted not of providing people with what they needed, but with that which was essen...
View full detailsLilian Shang, a history professor in Maryland, knew that her father, Gary, had been the most important Chinese spy ever caught in the United States...
View full detailsOn the cusp of independence, cultures collide in a bedroom in Singapore. As the Vietnam War rages on, the English-educated scholar Lee Hua Min—“the...
View full detailsMarie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (ther...
View full detailsIs evil something you are? Or is it something you do? Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, a job on Wall Street, reservations at e...
View full detailsAs Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Superna...
View full detailsAminoacid Boy is a creature from outer space sent on Earth from his Lord, a bio-architectural-metal-meat-machine living in a dark cave. He generate...
View full detailsRam Karan, a corrupt official in the Delhi school system, lives in one of the city's slums with his widowed daughter and his eight-year-old grandda...
View full detailsIn these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore explores the passing of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls. Gimlet-eyed s...
View full detailsMars has grown up. It is fully terraformed - genetically engineered plants and animals live by newly built canals and young but stormy seas. It is ...
View full detailstranslated by Philip Gabriel Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were cal...
View full detailstranslated by Philip Gabriel An instant #1 New York Times Bestseller, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the remarkable story ...
View full detailstranslated by Katrina Dodson The publication of Clarice Lispector's Collected Stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the ...
View full detailsCorridor is a collection of short stories all set in present-day Singapore. With unsentimental clarity and heartbreaking honesty, Alfian Sa’at writ...
View full detailsSet in Wyoming and India, the stories in Cowboys and East Indians explore the immigrant experience and collisions of cultures in the American West ...
View full detailstranslated by David Bellos Old-school publisher meets e-reader: chaos ensues There's a lot of good to be said about publishing, mainly about the fo...
View full detailsThey used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation. They used to be young, brave, and giddy with ho...
View full detailsBefore The Matrix, before Star Wars, before Ender's Game and Neuromancer, there was Dune: winner of the prestigious Hugo and Nebula awards, and wid...
View full detailsWith its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen's most flawless wo...
View full detailsPerhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who...
View full details“Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydi...
View full detailsFor eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju, life in Dehli in the late 1970s follows a comfortable, predictable routine: bathing on the roo...
View full detailsIn Feather Woman of the Jungle, the people of a Yoruba village gather on ten memorable nights to hear the stories and wisdom of their chief. They l...
View full detailsIt begins in a bar, like so many strange stories. The gods Hermes and Apollo argue about what would happen if animals had human intelligence, so th...
View full detailsIn her 35th novel, science fiction master Sheri S. Tepper boldly weaves together the storylines of eleven of her previous works--from King's Blood ...
View full detailsIn an act of breathtaking imagination, J. M. Coetzee radically reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe. In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barto...
View full detailsAn old wooden mansion that turns on its inhabitants. A dissection class with a most unusual subject. A funeral where the dead are definitely not la...
View full detailsIn the stories of Adjei-Brenyah's debut, an amusement park lets players enter augmented reality to hunt terrorists or shoot intruders played by min...
View full details100 scary stories to read with the light on, selected and introduced by award-winning author Louise Welsh. The perfect gift for fiction lovers. Hau...
View full detailsIn 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy a...
View full detailsIn Hard Times, Dickens illustrates the condition of England through his depiction of the fictional northern city of Coketown. Among its inhabitants...
View full detailstranslated by Alyson Waters Emmanuel Bove was one of the most original writers to come out of twentieth-century France and a popular success in his...
View full detailsTwo little girls are taken by their mother to Morocco on a 1960s pilgrimage of self-discovery. For Mum it is not just an escape from the grinding c...
View full detailsPembe and Adem Toprak leave Turkey for London. There they make new lives for their family. Yet the traditions and beliefs of their home come with t...
View full detailsAbandoned by a succession of relatives, orphaned sisters Ruthie and Lucille find themselves in the care of their eccentric aunt Sylvie in their rur...
View full detailsHow to Be Both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a ...
View full detailsMy name's Johanna Morrigan. I'm fourteen, and I've just decided to kill myself. I don't really want to die, of course! I just need to kill Johanna,...
View full detailsA man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer’s cab, gives the name of a hotel, and before he reaches it has been murdered: shot through the throat. And thoug...
View full detailsDespised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, b...
View full detailsOriginally conceived as a novel but then transformed into a play by Ayn Rand, Ideal is the story of beautiful but tormented actress Kay Gonda. Accu...
View full detailsA woman fleeing her previous existence meets a fellow Singaporean on an overnight train in Norway. A foreign worker is decapitated in an HDB buildi...
View full detailsThis collection of translated tales is from the most famous work in all of Japanese classical literature--the Konjaku Monogatari Shu. This collecti...
View full detailsEdited by Lucas Ho and featuring an interview with the playwright by Huzir Sulaiman, Joel Tan: Plays Volume 1 is a compilation of seven remarkable ...
View full detailsWilliam Burroughs, legendary drug addict, founder member of the Beats and author of Naked Lunch, relates with unflinching realism the addict's life...
View full detailsOriginally published in Italy in 1928, and unavailable in Britain until 1960, when it was the subject of an infamous obscenity trial, Lady Chatterl...
View full detailsLilia has been leaving people behind her entire life. Haunted by her inability to remember her early childhood, and by a mysterious shadow that see...
View full detailsEdgewood is many houses, all put inside each other, or across each other. It's filled with and surrounded by mystery and enchantment: the further i...
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