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
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
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
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
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
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
New York: Scribner, 2019. Jim Tierney (cover design). Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Michael Scammell A brilliant new translation of Koestler's long-lost original manuscript. A chilling and unforgettable 20th century classic. From a prison cell in an unnamed country run by a totalitarian government Rubashov reflects. Once..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2002. Reprint. Paperback. A baseball player struggling with a god-given gift and human passions is given a second chance to become what he always dreamed he could be: the best there ever was. This is a book about heroism - of sorts. Roy Hobbs has an..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2017. Reprint. Paperback. A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers For twenty-two-year-old Milos, bumbling apprentice at a sleepy Czech railway station, life is full of worries: his burdensome virginity, his love for the..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2011. Reprint. Paperback. A dark and witty work of hardboiled detective fiction set in the mean streets of New York, Chester Himes's A Rage in Harlem includes an introduction by Luc Sante in Penguin Modern Classics. Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make..... More
New York: HarperTempest, 2003. Paperback. ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults School Library Journal Best Book Willie Weaver used to be a hero. Now he's nothing. Willie is a top athlete, the star of the legendary game against Crazy Horse Electric. Then a freak accident robs him of..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2017. Reprint. Paperback. Things Victor loves: pizza with anchovies, grape soda, B movies aired at midnight, the evening news. And with his parents off at a resort and his older sister shirking her babysitting duties, Victor has plenty of time to..... More
New York: Simon Pulse, 2018. Sarah Creech (jacket design). First Edition. Hardcover. When everything has been taken from you, what else is there to do but run? So that’s what Annabelle does—she runs from Seattle to Washington, DC, through mountain passes and suburban landscapes, from long lonely roads to..... More
New York: New York Review Books, 2019. First Printing. Trade Paperback. In Greek mythology, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of red thread to guide him through the labyrinth, and the Red Thread offers a path through and a way to explore the ins and outs and twists and turns of..... More
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