Literary

Mad dogs & Co

by Chart Korbjitti

Thai hippiedom in its 1980s heyday. 

First serialised in a women's magazine, 

yet another masterpiece by the author of

1982 SEA Write Award winning The Judgment

and 1994 SEA Write Award winning Time.

Disorderly Notions

by Tom Darby

The year was 1989 the year everything unexpected happened: the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the massacre at Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was the beginning of the end of an era, but Professor...

Blue Skies Falling

by Arthur Winfield Knight

Sam Bonner is a household name. He spent his life within the best-known circles of Hollywood. His name on a film guaranteed a gross of millions. Every actor and actress wanted to star in a Bonner film, and Bonner's...

The Kelly affair

by Paul D. Brazill

The third chapter of Luke’s wondering around Europe reveals part of his secrets. What is he hiding behind drinks and cigarettes, pubs and women?

Vivienne

by Richard Hoyt

It is 1968, the end of Tet, the Chinese New Year. Vietcong have shocked the world by ambushing American units across South Vietnam. Back home, the fires of anti-war protest rage.

Jim Quint, a reporter for the...

Dangerous Liaisons in The Kitchen, Charmel Roses's menu

by Charmel Roses

6 courses, 6 recipes developed through 6 short stories. (from: THE MAN I LOVE, First Course) Summer was over; it had run away on tiptoe. Autumn’s fresh and sometimes chilly breeze swept the lonely roads at...

Dangerous Liaisons in the Kitchen, Nora Noir's menu

by Nora Noir

6 courses, 6 recipes developed through 6 chapters of a medieval story marked by the perversions of an insane aristocrat, Lord Irwin Blaxtone, who will vent his impulses and his harassment on the new, young and...

Razzle Dazzle

by Stella Stevens & William Hegner

In this exploitive era of media manipulation and celebrity super-stardom, a young Southern singer is elevated to the status of a god, and is unable to deal with the consequence. He is driven to and damned to...

The Douglas Notebooks: A Fable

by Christine Eddie

Roman was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. At 18, he leaves his family for a home in the forest, learning to live off the land rather than his family's wealth. Éléna flees a house of blood and mayhem,...

The Sentimentalists

Giller Prize 2010

by Johanna Skibsrud

The Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning novel by Johanna Skibsrud. Haunted by the vivid horrors of the Vietnam War, exhausted from years spent battling his memories, Napoleon Haskell leaves his North Dakota trailer...

Counting Coup

by Jack Dann

Charlie Sarris is a "fix-it" man in Binghamton, New York, with a younger wife and a child and no prospects. John Stone is an alcoholic Indian medicine man on the road. In some unlikely manner they have discovered...

Close is Fine

by Eliot Treichel

Like an album of Polaroid snapshots, Close Is Fine is a finely wrought collection of stories that gives us a brief glimpse into the quirky and complex lives of the inhabitants of a rural Wisconsin town. At times...

The apartment

by Batsceba Hardy

Maria manages her bar in Berlin. Here she meets Sebastian, a real estate agent, and Emma, a foreign girl who arrived in Berlin almost by chance. Maria firstly is a spectator, then advisor and finally a participant...

Hunger

by Jane A. Ward

Anna Rossi grew up in a home where every meal was boiled until the flavor was gone. Now, years later, a gifted cook, she finds her own appetite draining away as her marriage dissolves into blandness. Desperate...

Mirage

by Soheir Khashoggi

Amira Badir, a young woman from a wealthy family in the Middle Eastern country of al-Remal, lives a life of luxury in opulent palaces. But repressive al-Remal discourages intelligence and initiative, so her...

The Storyteller

by Harold Robbins

Joe Crowne is a poor boy from Brooklyn with a burning ambition to write… to be a storyteller. 

Thanks to natural street smarts and ruthless ambition, Joe tears himself free from a world of gangsters, drug...

The Carpetbaggers

The Carpetbaggers #1

by Harold Robbins

A LEGENDARY MASTERPIECE

A STORY OF MONEY AND POWER,

SEX AND DEATH

Jonas Cord coveted his father's fame, fortune, even his young, beautiful wife.  When his father died, Jonas swore to possess them all.  But...

Washika

by Robert Poirier

It’s summer in the ’60s. Twenty-one testosterone-drenched high school graduates are bussed to a summer job at the Company bush camp Washika. Idealistic, confident, sometimes troubled, they meet their match...

Stump Louie

by Lisa Halliday

“Name a song, New York! Name a song! If little Louie Palmer here can’t play it, we’ll pack up and go home! You’ve got thirty minutes to pick up the phone and Stump Louie!” That's the challenge that...

Out of Time in Wan Chai

by Fan Tong

From a not too distant past in Wan Chai district, Hong Kong, take: 1° An idealistic revolutionary: a dreamer but nevertheless a bright young lady;  2° A heavy set French man: a quiet, aging arms dealer; ...