Young Adam

Author

Dorothy B. Hughes

Sailor, a hood from Chicago, steps off a bus in a small, desert town. He is looking for someone, his boss, 'Sen' - a crooked, 'weasel-faced' Senator, who has set up the murder of his wealthy wife and made it look like a bungled robbery. Sailor is the only person who can finger Sen for the crime, and he intends...

Author	A.L. Kennedy
ISBN	1400079454

Hannah Luckraft sells cardboard boxes for a living. Her family is so frustrated by her behavior they can barely stand to keep in touch with her. Each day is fueled by the promise of annihilation, the promise of a reprieve, the paradise that can only be found in a bottle. When Hannah meets Robert, a kindred...

Author

Alan Warner

Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket in a desolate and beautiful port town in the west of Scotland, wakes one morning in late December to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on the kitchen floor. Morvern's reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What...

Author	Ron Butlin
ISBN	0862411262

Morris Magellan has a house in the suburbs, nice wife and kids. But Morris is also a chronic alcoholic, heading fast towards self-destruction. Morris is not hoping to meet Ms. Right and acquire the two kids that will straighten everything out. He already has all this and it hasn't kept him off the bottle....

Author	Andrew Greig
ISBN	0571212859

What a wonderful book this is, one of those that lingers with you long after you’ve finished reading it. It’s got a deep melancholy running through it but also lots of passion, love, and light(ish)-hearted comment on Scotland’s east/west divide. Author Andrew Greig has published books on mountaineering,...

Author	A. McArthur
ISBN	0552075833

No book is more associated with the city of Glasgow than No Mean City. First published in 1935, it is the story of Johnnie Stark, son of a violent father and a downtrodden mother, the 'Razor King' of Glasgow's pre-war slum underworld, the Gorbals. The savage, near-truth descriptions, the raw character...

Author	Sabina Murray
ISBN	0802142001

Twenty-three year old Katherine has just left Italy for New York City, but what has propelled her there is a mystery. She strikes up an affair with an older Russian �migr� novelist met on the subway and moves into his apartment. But her allusions to a frighteningly eccentric mother and tyrannical...

Author	Madison Smartt Bell
ISBN	0307741885

Mae, a blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas casino, spends her free time wandering the desert with a rifle, or sitting in her trailer obsessively watching replays of an old lover escaping the wreckage of 9/11. What she sees in those images is different from what the rest of us would see. She revels in the pure...

Author	E.F. Bleiler
ISBN	0486212327

One of the most interesting phenomena in the history of literature, the Gothic novel — which flourished from about 1765 to 1825 — still has much to offer to the modern reader. Supernatural thrills, adventure and suspense, colorful settings, and, in the better examples, literary quality are all...

Author	William Attaway
ISBN	1590171349

This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they encounter a world of surreal devastation, crowded with dogfighters,...

Author	Gil Scott-Heron
ISBN	0862415284

"The Vulture"

Standing in the ruins
of another Black man's life,
or flying through the valley
separating day and night.
"I am death," cried the Vulture.
"For the people of the light."

Charon brought his raft
from the sea that sails on souls,
and...

Author	Robert Polito
ISBN	0679733523

Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic, casting light into the darker caverns of our collective psyche,...

Author

Undinė Radzevičiūtė

Kiniško stiliaus daiktą ar interjerą Europoje rasti nesunku, taip pat nesunku rasti knygų apie Kiniją, o tikras literatūrinis chinoiserie pasitaiko labai retai. Naujas Undinės Radzevičiūtės romanas Žuvys ir drakonai - apie daugelį dalykų.
Apie XVIII amžiaus europiečio...

Author	Jurga Ivanauskaitė
ISBN	3423244534

Vos pradėjusi skaityti gavau nustebti, kas keturiolikmetę mane šitaip žavėjo Ivanauskaitės kūryboje - o anuomet buvau pakerėta josios siužetų bei mistinio savo, kaip rašytojos, asmenybės vaizdinio kūrimo. Pirmi keliolika puslapių sudarė įvaizdį, jog "Placebas" yra apie...

Author	Richard Ford
ISBN	0099448955

In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from Jail and, ideally, to get him away form the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects...

Author

Richard Greenberg

A year after he disappeared on the day of his father's funeral, Walker Janeway returns to New York. He takes up temporary residence in the unused space where thirty-five years earlier, his father Ned, and Ned's late partner Theo, both architects, lived and designed the great house that would make them...

Author	Eliza Parsons
ISBN	1934555347

The good old Count Renaud is dead, and his will makes the degenerate Rhodophil his heir, disinheriting his other son Ferdinand, who has married against his father's wishes. Rhodophil promises to share his new riches with his younger brother and his wife Claudina, but Ferdinand hears a mysterious voice...

Author

May Sinclair

A lovely autobiographical novel by an apparently neglected modernist writer. I am no expert on modernism, but his reminded me in parts of Virginia Woolf, particularly in three ways: the impressionistic early scenes in which Sinclair describes memories of being very young; the swift passing of time...

Author

Cynthia Eden

When Ivy DuLane witnesses a murder during the madness of Mardi Gras, she enters a deadly cat and mouse game with the killer. The city has gone wild with the annual celebration, and Ivy has to rely on sexy homicide detective—and her ex-lover—Bennett Morgan for help. But with every moment that passes,...

Author	John Burnside
ISBN	1555974678

My father told lies all his life and, because I knew no better, I repeated them. Lies about everything, great and small, were the very fabric of my world.

The lie in the title of astonishing memoir Lie About My Father is born of shame. Traveling around upstate New York in the nineties, John...

Author

Amanda Lance

On the way to investigate a fugitive sighting, 21-year-old news intern Aubrey Kent is injured when an unexpected storm destroys the newscopter—along with the rest of the crew.

Now, stranded in the Canadian wilderness and on the brink of death, Aubrey is rescued by a handsome stranger whose...

Author

Clarissa Johal

Exploring a remote island can get you into trouble
Especially when you stumble upon a cave and awaken two demons
Rumors and superstition.
That's what Emma thinks about local gossip concerning her grandmother's "cursed" private island. Emma journeys to the island to ready it for sale....

Author	Gordon M. Williams
ISBN	0857681192

The original novel on which Sam Peckinpah's controversial movie Straw Dogs was based, and the inspiration behind a brand-new movie by Rod Lurie, starring Alexander Skarsgård and Kate Bosworth - due for release in September 2011.

American professor George Magruder, his wife Louise and...

Author	Joseph Roth
ISBN	1585673846

In a Russian restaurant on Paris's Left Bank, Russian exile Golubchik alternately fascinates and horrifies a rapt audience with a wild story of collaboration, deception, and murder in the days leading up to the Russian Revolution. “Worthy to sit beside Conrad and Dostoevsky’s excursions into...

Author	Edie Meidav
ISBN	0374109265

The year is 2008, the place California. Vic Mahler, famous for having inspired cult followers in the seventies, serves time on death row, now facing a countdown of ten days. For years, his daughter, Lana, has been in hiding. Meanwhile, her friend Rose, a lawyer, is determined to bring the two together.

When...