“Outstanding... social history at its best.” –The New York Times Book Review“An amazing, long-forgotten tale. A riveting history written with flair and precision.”—Bob WoodwardIn o...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of...
Product Description"Travel writing at its best."THE HOUSTON POSTAuthor and travel writer Paul Theroux does what no one else can: he travels to the isolated, unusual, and fascin...
SUMMARY: A major, internationally bestselling novel of extraordinary power about the costs of war from one of Israel's greatest writers. Set in Israel in recent times, this epic ye...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. œThe mountain path is the road of the dead, writes Thubron (Shadow of the Silk Road) in this engrossing and affecting travel memoir that tran...
SUMMARY: In this comic, wildly energetic first novel, Clive Beresford is a failed music fanzine writer in his early thirties who fears that his best days are behind him. The turnin...
There’s more than one side to every story—especially in a threesome Harry, Priss, and Rhoda have a brilliant idea. They’re going to write the best “bad” novel and they’ll each c...
This haunting, magnificently written memoir introduced an important American writer. Now, in its Fifteenth Anniversary Edition, Ivan Doig's preface provides stirring details of the...