Mediterranean Passages - Prijzen

The Purple Heights

The tiny brown house cuddling like a wren's nest on the edge of the longest and deepest of the tide-water coves that cut through Riverton had but four rooms in all,-the kitchen tacked to the back porc...

Memoirs of a Woman Doctor

Rebelling against the contraints of family and society, a young Egyptian woman decides to study medicine, becoming the only woman in a class of men. Her encounters with the other students mdash; as we...

The Story: Life

'Life provides infinite shades of light and dark...' Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here are prizewin...

The Stories of Ray Bradbury

p-Included here are famous tales like 'Sound of Thunder', in which the carelessness of a group of time-travellers leads to disastrous consequences, and 'The Veldt', in which two seemingly innocent you...

1001 Dark Nights

ROPED IN: A Blacktop Cowboys (R) Novella by Lorelei James: When World champion bulldogger Sutton Grant is sidelined by an injury, he needs help keeping his horse in competition shape. London is humili...

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The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge

Vernor Vinge may be the most brilliant science fiction writer of the past 20 years, most recently earning two Hugo Awards for his novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) and A Deepness in the Sky (1999). H...

The Penguin Book of the British Short Story

TELEGRAPH, INDEPENDENT, FINANCIAL TIMES AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Hilarious, exuberant, subtle, tender, brutal, spectacular, and above all unexpected: these two extraordinary volumes contain...

Spitfire's Forgotten Designer

The Supermarine Spitfire was a classic design, well known for its efforts in defending British shores during the Second World War. However, while Reginald Mitchell is rightly celebrated for his origin...

Lotus 18

This is the full biography of Stirling Moss&; Lotus 18, chassis number 912. It is the car that drove him to two famous Grand Prix victories, first in Monaco and later at the Nurburgring. You&;ll get t...

Pacman

PacMan is a one-of-a-kind ride into the one-of-a-kind life of Manny Pacquiao. - Robert Cassidy, Newsday With his shellacking of Antonio Margarito in November 2010, Manny PacMan Pacquiao became t...

Ooh La La!

Berets, baguettes and strings of onions are all very well, but to really fit in across the Channel takes a certain...je ne sais quoi. The French might make it look easy, but being French requires a fi...