From Publishers WeeklyBartulin introduces irrepressible Sydney, Australia, used-book dealer Jack Susko in this tight hard-boiled whodunit, the first of what one hopes will be a lon...
SUMMARY: Rookie detective Peter Shaw, along with his chain-smoking, hard-as-nails, veteran partner, is confronted with a baffling crime that stretches him to the breaking point.
In a marvellous, thrilling re-creation of the world of Pride and Prejudice, P.D. James fuses her lifelong passion for the work of Jane Austen with her own great talent for writing ...
FromIt was to have been the triumphant swan song for a revered Italian film director—the premiere in Rome of his long-awaited movie version of Dante’s Inferno. But before the light...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. In order to shield our shattered collective psyche from a long history of setbacks and disillusionment... we cultivate communal and historical...
SUMMARY:Rimble, the Trickster, is a merry god--dancing through streets as a gust of leaves, hobbling along canals as an old hag, roaming through gardens as a wiry dog. And w...
SUMMARY:Seventeen-year-old Melissa is having her best year ever.She's traveling the world on the tall ship "Inspiration," and, along with more than thirty other students, ge...
Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimme...
Goldie Roth is a trained thief and a skilled liar. Along with her friend Toadspit, she's supposed to be one of the Keepers of the mysterious Museum of Dunt. But although she desper...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Novelist and critic White (A Boy's Own Story; The Joy of Gay Sex) weaves erotic encounters and long-ago literati into a vast tapestr...