E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on The Moving Finger;2) "The Marples": the complete guide to all the cases of crime literature's foremost fem...
"Boy!" said Ralph to himself, his whiskers quivering with excitement. "Boy, oh boy!" Feeling that this was an important moment in his life, he took hold of the handgrips. They felt...
With their park view and old-fashioned detail, the Victorian houses on San Francisco's Steiner Street were highly valuable. But with their wooden construction, they were also highl...
SUMMARY: Byzantium, 1096. A mysterious assassin releases an arrow aimed at the emperor---but he has more than just a man in his sights. A keystone of a crumbling empire, the empero...
Review“The whole work is distinguished by the variety and impressiveness of its incidents; and the author every-where discovers an imagination rich, powerful, and fervid.” —Samuel ...
A profound and moving novel that evokes a colonial man's experience in the postcolonial world. Born of Indian heritage, raised in the British-dependent Caribbean island of Isabella...
Product DescriptionA trio of classic novels in the third omnibus from "the king of hard boiled crime fiction" (_USA Today_). "There's a kind of power about Mi...
SUMMARY: It's said that if the ravens ever leave the Tower of London, then the Tower will crumble and the kingdom will fall. Resurrected sorcerer Matthew Swift is about to discover...
Review“The coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we have.”–_The New York Times Book Review “Belongs in the same category of travel writing as Lawrence’s books on Italy, ...