A Very Special Year - Prijzen

La fille qui lisait dans le metro

Juliette prend le métro tous les jours à la même heure. La ligne 6, c'est chez elle. Elle aime y observer ceux qui lisent : la vieille dame, le collectionneur d'éditions rares, la jeune fille qui pleu...

Life Death Prizes

Shortlisted for the 2012 COSTA Novel Award Billy's Mum is dead. He knows - because he reads about it in magazines - that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than...

Post Office Girl

It's the 1930s. Christine, A young Austrian woman whose family has been impoverished by the war, toils away in a provincial post office. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from an American aunt she's...

The Universe in Miniature in Miniature

In this genre-busting book from award-winning novelist Patrick Somerville characters, stories, and stray thoughts revolve around the The Machine of Understanding Other People, the story of a Chicago...

The Headsman; or, the Abbaye Des Vignerons. A Tale. by J. Fenimore Cooper.

Not Where I Started from

Many of the stories in Wheeler's debut collection feature Americans in alien cultures, seeking love or spiritual enlightenment--often both. Underlying these remarkable tales is an unerring belief in t...

The Christmas Quilt

When Christmas Eve comes to Elm Creek Manor, the tenor of the holiday is far from certain. Sylvia Bergstrom Compson, the Master Quilter, has her own reasons for preferring a quiet, even subdued, Chris...

No Place for an Angel

Winner of five O. Henry Awards and the 2013 Rea Prize for Short Fiction, Elizabeth Spencer has long been considered a master of the short story, yet her novels are no less a showcase for her uncanny a...

Autobiography

Blessed with enormous talents and the energy and ambition to go with them, Franklin was a statesman, author, inventor, printer, and scientist. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later...

Sun Sword

A wandering Thorgal is captured and enslaved by Orgoff, a cruel man who appointed himself the local lord after defeating the old one. Orgoff wields the dreadful power of the Sun Sword, which the peasa...

Before Houdini

The exciting second volume of the After Houdini saga explores the origins of the elusive master of magic, the man who would become…Houdini.London, 1888. A shadowy killer stalks the streets of London,...

Screen Savers (Oz Blackstone series, Book 4)

For Oz Blackstone, the days of getting into trouble for a living, otherwise known as being a private enquiry agent, could soon be behind him. An undercover stint posing as a TV wrestling Master of Cer...