Fiction

The Fall of Arthur

by J.R.R. Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien

The Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur King of Britain, may well be regarded as his finest and most skillful achievement in the use of the Old English alliterative...

The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays: Stunning; The Road Weeps, the Well Runs Dry; Pullman, Wa; Hurt Village; Dying City; The Big Meal

by Sarah Benson

The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays is an anthology of six outstanding plays from some of the most exciting playwrights currently receiving critical acclaim in the States. It showcases work produced...

Siro: A Novel

by David Ignatius

"A riveting imagined world, so real in fact that one always wonders if it is imagined at all." -Scott TurowMade restless by the tightening restrictions of CIA bureaucracy, agent Alan Taylor oversteps moral and...

Sacred Games

by Gary Corby

The third book in the critically acclaimed series set in Classical Athens, featuring the historically-inspired amateur detective Nicolaos.

It is the Olympics of 460 BC. Nico's best friend, Timodemus, is a...

The Bank of Fear: A Novel

by David Ignatius

"Sizzling…engrossing all the way."-Los Angeles Times Book ReviewHit men stalk computer analyst Lina Alwen and financial investigator Sam Hoffman in pursuit of the knowledge the pair may have regarding a late...

A Firing Offense: A Novel

by David Ignatius

"A dynamic thriller with the coolest, smartest journalist that fiction ever produced."-Ben Bradlee, Washington PostWhen rising-star reporter Eric Truell accepts information from a maverick CIA agent, he becomes...

The Lime Twig: Novel

by John Hawkes

An English horse race, the Golden Bowl at Aldington, provides the background for John Hawkes' exciting novel, The Lime Twig, which tells of an ingenious plot to steal and race a horse under a false name.An English...

The Blood Oranges: A Novel

by John Hawkes

"Rich, evocative, highly original piece of fiction. It gilds contemporary American literature with real, not synthetic, gold."-Anthony Burgess"Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy?...

Nausea

by Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard Howard & James Wood

Sartre's greatest novel - and existentialism's key text - now introduced by James Wood.

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary...

A Russian Doll & Other Stories

by Adolfo Bioy Casares & Suzanne Jill Levine

This collection of traditional and experimental stories by Argentinian novelist Bioy Casares ( The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata ) offers sophisticated, seamless prose, as well as magical realism...

The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles)

by Jean Cocteau & Rosamond Lehmann

Cocteau's novel Les Enfants Terribles, which was first published in 1929, holds an undisputed place among the classics of modern fiction.Written in a French style that long defied successful translation—Cocteau...

Jewelweed: A Novel

by David Rhodes

When David Rhodes burst onto the American literary scene in the '70s, he was hailed as “a brilliant visionary” (John Gardner). In Driftless, his “most accomplished work yet” (Joseph Kanon), Rhodes made...

Sign of the Cross

Spike Sanguinetti #2

by Thomas Mogford

Just as a degree of calm returns to Spike Sanguinetti's life in Gibraltar, he receives the shocking news that his Maltese uncle and aunt are dead after a domestic dispute escalated into a blood-soaked murder-suicide....

What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems

by Kim Addonizio

Poetry from the author of Tell Me, a finalist for the National Book Award.From lilting lines about a love that "dizzies up the brain's back room" to haunting fragments betokening death and decline in a suffering...

The Chesapeake Diaries Series 5-Book Bundle: Coming Home, Home Again, Almost Home, Hometown Girl, Home for the Summer

by Mariah Stewart

In the tradition of Robyn Carr, Susan Mallery, and Barbara Freethy, the stories in the Chesapeake Diaries series combine captivating contemporary romance with the heartwarming power of healing and redemption....

Hello America: A Novel

by J. G. Ballard

"This fable lifts a great freight of ideas effortlessly…The story of an expedition driven on by wishes of possession and power but guided internally by myths of America whose sources lie in the late 20th century."...

The Unlimited Dream Company: A Novel

by J. G. Ballard

"A remarkable piece of invention, a flight from the world of the familiar and the real into the exotic universe of dream and desire." -New York Times Book ReviewWhen a light aircraft crashes into the Thames...

Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night

by James Runcie

1955. Canon Sidney Chambers, loveable priest and part-time detective, is back. Accompanied by his faithful Labrador, Dickens, and the increasingly exasperated Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney is called to investigate...

Poppet

by Mo Hayder

Mo Hayder has for years been a master of chilling, seamlessly-plotted thrillers that keep the reader glued to the page long after lights out, and fresh off of winning the Edgar Award for Best Novel for Gone,...

Dead Lions

Slough House #2

by Mick Herron

London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The "slow horses," as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated...