London: Canongate, 2017. First Printing. Trade Paperback. A TIME magazine Top 10 YA Book of 2016! Mara’s senior year is proving to be a lot less exciting than she’d hoped, until the day - KABAM! - Katelyn Ogden explodes during third period. Katelyn is the first, but she won’t..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. Jennifer Heuer (cover design). Reissued Norton Paperback Edirion. Paperback. In this reissue of her seventh volume of poetry, Adrienne Rich searches to reclaim―to discover―what has been forgotten, lost, or unexplored. "I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. /..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. Reprint. Paperback. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick One of the most famous and beloved mysteries from the queen of suspense, Agatha Christie! More than 100 million copies sold and now a Lifetime TV movie. Ten people, each with something..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2013. Reprint. Paperback. In Agatha Christie’s classic, Five Little Pigs, beloved detective Hercule Poirot races to solve a case from out of the past. Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, but just like the nursery rhyme, there were five other “little pigs”..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2013. Nick Castle (cover art). 13th Printing. Paperback. It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. But..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2013. Reprint. Paperback. Voted by the British Crime Writers’ Association as the "Best Crime Novel of all Time" Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement in one of Agatha Christie’s ten favorite novels, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2003. H.T. Willetts (tr.). Twentieth Printing. Paperback. With a foreword by Alexis Klimoff. THE OFFICIALLY APPROVED TRANSLATION OF SOLZHENITSYN'S SEARING DEBUT NOVEL The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2001. Trade Paperback. In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Loveship), Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know..... More
New York: Vintage International, 2001. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman–is an insightful, honest book, “autobiographical in form but not in fact,” that chronicles a young girl’s growing up in rural..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes–the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart..... More
London: Vintage Books, 1995. Reprint. Paperback. In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from..... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2020. Doryl Jensen (tr.). First Penguin Classics Science Fiction Edition. First Printing. Paperback. In a distant universe, since the beginning of time, workers have spent their lives weaving intricate carpets from the hair of women and girls. But why? Andreas Eschbach's mysterious, poignant space opera explores the..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 2017. Erica Williams (cover art). Trade Paperback. The roars of the hungry Minotaur came nearer and nearer – his feet could be heard thundering along the echoing floor of the labyrinth . . . Meet the original heroes of Greece as they battle the mythical..... More
New York: Del Rey, 2018. Reprint. Trade Paperback. WELCOME TO ARTEMIS. The first city on the moon. Population 2,000. Mostly tourists. Some criminals. Jazz Bashara is one of the criminals. She lives in a poor area of Artemis and subsidises her work as a porter with smuggling contraband onto..... More
New York: Del Rey, 2014. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Robinson Crusoe on Mars A survival story for the 21st century and the international bestseller behind the major film from Ridley Scott starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain. I’m stranded on Mars. I have no way to communicate with..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2006. Parra (cover illustration). Reprint. Paperback. Discover Angela Carter's classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling. From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves -..... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2020. Amalia Gladhart (tr.). First Penguin Classics Science Fiction Edition. First Printing. Paperback. 'A kind of magical realism for science fiction ... Quite, quite brilliant' Tor Part pulp adventure, part otherworldly meditation, this is the story of Trafalgar Medrano: intergalactic trader and lover of bitter coffee..... More
New York: Harper, 2017. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny’s mother, Beverly—thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families. Spanning five..... More
London: HarperCollins Publishers/Collins Crime Club, 2016. Reprint. Hardcover. THIS DETECTIVE STORY CLUB CLASSIC is introduced by Dr John Curran, who looks at how Anna Katherine Green was a pioneer who inspired a new generation of crime writers, in particular a young woman named Agatha Christie. When the retired merchant..... More
Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2017. First Paperback Edition. The collected edition of the international cult comic series “Charming and weird.”–Paste Anouk Ricard’s bold and colorful comics of this quirky, grumpy gang of pals are delightfully weird yet thoroughly realistic in their honest and hilarious portrayal of friendship. Anna..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2012. Barnbrook (design). Paperback. Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews Edited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2012. Barry Trengrove (jacket design). Fifth Printing. A newly revised text for A Clockwork Orange’s 50th anniversary brings the work closest to its author’s intentions. A Clockwork Orange is as brilliant, transgressive, and influential as when it was published fifty years ago..... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2020. First Penguin Classics Science Fiction Edition. First Printing. Paperback. 'A beautiful book' Ursula K. Le Guin This mordantly funny and provocative tale from Soviet Russia's leading science fiction writers is the story of astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov. As he reaches a major breakthrough, he finds himself..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2003. Softcover. THE DEFINITIVE EDITION: The Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker). A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the..... More
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