General

We are creatures of the night and we use each other's ignorance and muddy each other's waters; assumptions, guesses, certainties are all one to us, because everything is in a state of flux, and the pieces are continually being moved. Add to this the differences in intelligence, nerve, greed and willingness ...

Where is Paradise? How can a man get there? A life of virtue might suffice, but who wants to wait for death to claim life's rewards? Thomas Deerham, wandering war-torn Europe, has no thought of going anywhere but home. But when he falls in with a friar and a pilgrim, his plans change. The three men, ...

In this carefully researched historical novel, E. R. Eastman tells the story of the pioneers who settled "Genesee Country" of frontier New York in the early nineteenth century.

Anna Larssen drifted for years in the wake of one man and the dream of another and awoke to find herself clinging to wreckage. Her illusions shattered, she leaves her home in France and travels to an island at the northern rim of the world, to a place called A. There, beneath the peaks of Norway's Lofoten ...

When a deadly serpent's teeth are sown in the ground, warriors spring from the bloody soil. Only a great man can tame them and fulfil his destiny. Far away, Medusa, snakes writhing in her hair, meets her nemesis. Enter a universe where love is cruel, men are destroyed by the gods, and treachery is paid for in blood.

The main subject of Lost Word is violence towards the other. Various forms of violence (cutting up lab animals, imposing our values on our children, assasinations, armed clashes, honor killings, wars, etc.) are told and examined through stories which unfold from three different branches. The relationship ...

Barnaby Griswold floats through life relying on his talents as an investor until he loses it all--wife, daughters, home, livelihood, and connections--and must somehow put his life back together.

"A debut novel about the range wars in the American West at the turn of the century"--

Hilary one of the serious and dedicated, working in the Home Office in Westminster, who just happens to know the truth about the case in which Terry is currently interested. But then why is she to be found one evening walking through the back streets behind the Strand, to the run-down block where Terry's pressure group has its headquarters?

A budding butch in the Brylcreem era, Lorraine 'Lon' Harris fantasizes about a South Pacific island full of women, where everyone will be free and accepting, and she'll never have to wear an eyelet blouse again. Spurned by her high school English teacher, Lon turns to a new friend, the brash, purple-haired ...

Meet David Michael Rosendorf, a man whose aim in life is absolute control - of himself and all with whom he interacts. His story is told through the TV, which he also controls, zapping from channel to channel in a hectic whirlwind.

Frank Montgomery is in T.S. Eliot's 'middle way', Principal of an art college, coping with an aging father and a mother in law on the dark descent into Alzheimer's.

The corrupt and despotic rule of Antonio Floresco, longtime dictator of the Carolines, seems finally to be unravelling. His only remaining allies seem to be his daughter, and his wife, the First Lady. History, though, has demonstrated that if there is one creature more self-serving than a despotic ruler ...

"On tire et mes yeux entrent dans mon crâne, mes yeux voient l'intérieur de ma boîte crânienne, voient les zones d'ombre et l'oubli, voient la confusion. Mes yeux voient l'absence de Nobody. Mes yeux voient le noir, voient la perte. Mes yeux voient ce que je ne trouve pas, voient le noir de la terre ...

Paris in the 1890s. Adam Gould, whose Anglo-Irish father has disowned him, works in a lunatic asylum run by the celebrated Dr Blanche, some of whose patients once starred in France's social firmament and still, when sane, sit at table with distinguished guests. One such patient is Guy de Maupassant.

A novel, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell.

Tom Stoppard's first novel, originally published in 1966, includes not only the eighteenth-century figure of the dandified Malquist and his ineffectual Boswell, Moon, but also a couple of cowboys with six-shooters, a lion (banned from the Ritz) and a donkey-borne Irishman claiming to be the risen Christ.