SUMMARY:The Brit Writers' Awards (www.britwriters.co.uk) is nothing short of a writing and publishing phenomenon. It has attracted tens of thousands of entries...
Review“Trevor Cole has written an Ordinary People for the 21st century.” — Maclean’s “Cole’s writing is reminiscent of that of Carol Shields: he can be hilar...
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, April 2011: With a timeless writing style that invokes thoughts of children’s fantasy classics such as Philip Pullman...
A New York Times bestseller for 23 weeksA New York Times Notable Book of the Year"A strange and beautiful book...Part memoir, part meditation, it is a remarkable piece of writing."...
From Publishers WeeklyWhen Pessoa died in 1935, a few years short of 50, he left behind a trunk of mostly unpublished writing in a variety of languages; his Lisbon publishers and v...
This book is our annual collection of the best travel writing of the year, much of it never published before, from big names in travel literature and emerging new writers. "The Bes...
Review“Each year I greet with great pleasure—and a divine delight—another new edition of The Best Buddhist Writing. And 2010, seventh in the series, is no exception. If an antholo....
The author of the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Weapons and Hope edits a collection of the finest science and nature writing. Original. 30,000 first printing.