Author, Author

Author	Charles Cumming
ISBN	1250129958

THE MOROCCAN GIRL is a standalone thriller from Charles Cumming.

Kit Carradine is the successful author of several best-selling novels. When he is approached by MI6 and asked to carry out a simple task on behalf of his country while attending a literary festival in Morocco, he jumps at the chance.

But...

Author	Gustave Flaubert
ISBN	0140447970

Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as “the moral history of the men of my generation.” It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, notices Mme Arnoux,...

Author	Penelope Lively
ISBN	0802135331

The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger is her own history, the life of a strong, independent woman, with...

Author	Stefan Zweig
ISBN	1590172620

2009 PEN Translation Prize Finalist

The logic of capitalism, boom and bust, is unremitting and unforgiving. But what happens to human feeling in a completely commodified world? In The Post-Office Girl, Stefan Zweig, a deep analyst of the human passions, lays bare the private life of capitalism.

Christine...

Author	Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN	1594561699

Since there are a few dozen reviews already posted here, in the spirit of freshness I will compare Poe’s tale with a few other tales, each of these other tales picking up on a Berenice theme.

OBSESSION
In The Gaze by Jean Richepin, the narrator peers through the window of a...

Author	Gianrico Carofiglio
ISBN	8838919054

Nelle giornate dell'avvocato Guerrieri, ogni tanto - ma sempre troppo spesso per il bene della sua carriera -, piomba una pratica, di quelle che non portano né soldi né gloria, ma solo nuovi nemici. Lui non riesce a rifiutarla, una specie di molla gli scatta dentro. La nuova pratica di Ad occhi chiusi...

Author	Fred Vargas
ISBN	1843432730

Between 1943 and 2003 nine people have been stabbed to death with a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made, suspects confessed their crimes and were sentenced to life in prison. One slightly worrying detail: each presumed murderer lost consciousness during the night of the...