
Transparent Things
Book
The darkly comic Transparent Things, one of Nabokov's final books, traces the bleak life of Hugh...

Under Western Eyes
Joseph Conrad, Allan Simmons and Stephen Donovan
Book
'It was I who removed de P- this morning.' With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the...

Hour of the Star
Book
Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and...

In the Dark
Book
'Cracking another country's cipher is an undercover fight to the death...' Hidden deep in the...

Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Book
Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs' virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunch...

Complete Stories
Book
The publication of Clarice Lispector's Collected Stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary...

Epitaph for a Spy
James Fenton, Eric Ambler, Mark Mazower and Norman Stone
Book
Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian refugee and language teacher living in France, is enjoying his first...

Family and Friends
Book
'Sofka gazes ahead, with her family's future before her ...' Sofka Dorn, widowed matriarch of a...

Goodnight Batcave
Book
A 100% UNauthorized parody of Goodnight, Moon-as only the world-(in)famous MAD Magazine can do it!...

The Pleasures of the Table
Book
Epicure and gourmand Brillat-Savarin was one of the most influential food writers of all time. His...