The Beast of Bradhurst Avenue and Other Stories

Rediscover George S. Schuyler with a brand new collection of pulp fiction stories never before published in book form.George S. Schuyler was an African American journalist, social commentator and author with a very complicated legacy. Despite making history as the first Black American to publish ...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Large Print Edition)

LARGE PRINT EDITION. This edition of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes contains twelve short stories that introduce the reader to the iconic detective and his sidekick, Dr. Watson. Sherlock Holmes is a mysterious person. Extremely observant, highly intelligent, and yet emotionally unstable, Hol...

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

On Remembrance Day at the Bellona Club, ninety year old General Fentiman is found dead in an armchair. While certainly unpleasant in and of itself, stranger yet is the seemingly simultaneous death of his estranged sister, Lady Dormer. Just one day before the siblings’ demise, Fentiman was called ...

Rhapsody

“He again had the sense that all this order, balance and security in his life were really an illusion and a lie”…. “Everything seemed to be slipping from his grasp; everything was becoming increasingly unreal, even his home, his wife, his child, his profession, his very identity.”Originally publi...

The Well of Loneliness

Stephen Gordon has always been different. Firstly, she was born a girl against her parent’s wishes. Secondly, she is raised to be boyish, much to her mother’s disdain. Third—but most important—is that Stephen loves women, and it is a very isolating life to lead. Revisit one of Britian’s most famo...

Cogewea, the Half Blood

Within the beautiful and outspoken Cogewea, there is sometimes unrest. A living dichotomy, the half-blood girl is caught between the world of her father, a European rancher; and that of her mother, a proud full-blooded Okanagan. When a battle for her affections sees suitors on conflicting ends of...

Touch Me Not

Touch Me Not (1887) is a novel by José Rizal. Published in Berlin, the novel was originally conceived as a collaborative project to be written by a group of Filipino nationalist writers living in Madrid. Disappointed in his comrades’ lack of engagement, however, Rizal wrote the novel alone, blend...

Ladies Almanack

Continuing her pattern of writing extraordinary books that defy the traditional boundaries of literary form, Djuna Barnes’ The Ladies Almanack is an experimental roman à clef written for and about a community of Parisian lesbians. Unapologetically puzzling, the novel is a celebration of queerness...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Like many others, Ivan Ilyich never truly considered the possibility of his own death. He knew that it was inevitable and yet after being diagnosed with a terminal illness, he’s filled with fear that he’s never quite felt before; and asking questions that he’s never taken the time to ask such as,...

The Incredulity of Father Brown

<p><b>John Adams Race knows what he saw. Looking out of his window one night he sees two suspicious men following Father Brown to a bridge. There are sounds of a fight, the two men disappear–leaving only the body of the priest behind. Or, is there more to the mystery of Father Brown’s...

Invaders From the Dark

"Take the box and get away from here as soon as you can. Don't let it out of your sight until it has been printed and the books distributed!" In May 1921, Miss Sophie Delorme beings a series of communications with a publishing house in search of a genuine student of the occult. Coming upon the su...

Dark Princess

Matthew Townes, aspiring obstetrician, has hit the glass ceiling. Unable to continue his medical studies in New York City, the young man becomes disillusioned with the reality of racism within the United States and heads for Germany. Arriving in Berlin, Matthew immediately recognizes all that he'...

Uncommon Weather

Uncommon Weather is an eclectic mix of character-driven stories that delivers a panoramic picture of Alaska— from the cold city streets of Anchorage to picturesque but emotionally treacherous small Alaska towns; from the rough-and-tumble commercial fishing world of the distant Aleutian Islands to...

Sin Eaters

Winner of the 2021 Permafrost Prize in fiction   Magical, heartfelt, and surprisingly funny, Sin Eaters paints a tumultuous picture of religion and repression while hinting at the love and connection that come with healing. The powerful stories in Caleb Tankersley’s debut collection illuminate th...

Burning Daylight

In Jack London’s lifetime, Burning Daylight was one of his best-selling books, yet it has been largely out of print for decades. Now the novel is being brought back for a new generation of readers to discover. The story features one of London’s most engaging larger-than-life protagonists, Elam Ha...

Bloom Again

Elyse is an empty-nest mother and artist in Alaska, and Astrid is a paleobotany professor in North Carolina. When the seemingly fulfilling lives of these distanced childhood friends are shaken, everything they’ve carefully established—from friends to careers to marriages—shifts, slips, unravels.   

Playing from Memory

Playing From Memory is a deeply moving, compassionate novel about the power of marriage to survive under stress, a love story that tells of a musician's courageous battle against a degenerative illness and his wife's struggle to face the end of their life together.

Scavengers

A woman obsessed with reality TV encounters a sorority girl who has embarked on a very personal scavenger hunt. A man unexpectedly discovers that his father—a seemingly rational man—believes, seriously, in lake monsters. A woman whose husband has just survived a near-fatal accident flees to St. P...

Oil and Water

What happens when the American dream collides head-on with a nation’s dependence on fossil fuels? Oil and Water, a novel by Mei Mei Evans, focuses on precisely this question. Starting with a star-crossed supertanker, a wayward fishing boat, and a well-known hazard in the Gulf of Alaska, the story...

The Creatures at the Absolute Bottom of the Sea

A man witnesses a tragic accident that calls his own life into question. A young woman meets her high school sweetheart after many years and seeks to make sense of the separate paths they've taken. A soldier home from Iraq tries to rebuild his life in a remote Alaskan village. These are fishing s...

Human Being Songs

The public image of Alaska for those who live elsewhere tends to be bound up with the outdoors. But while that’s not necessarily false, it’s a far from complete picture. This collection of stories shows us what we’re missing: set in Alaska’s cities and suburbs, homes and back roads, cars and kitc...

Trouble Will Save You

In these three deeply observed novellas, award-winning author David Nikki Crouse dramatizes the lives of women living in Interior Alaska. Each novella acts as an extended meditation on grief, loss, and the nature of imagination. Crouse’s usual storytelling gifts are on full display here, but the ...

Cold Flashes

As the old adage goes, "if you can't say it in a few pages, you won't in a hundred." The selections in Cold Flashes—very short prose and black-and-white photographs—embody perfectly this transparency, thrift, and restraint. Found here are highly polished micro-narratives, both fiction and nonfict...

The Storms of Denali

Reaching 20,320 feet into and above the clouds, the peak of Denali is the highest and coldest summit in North America. In this novel of adventure, adversity, and ambition by renowned mountaineer and writer Nicholas O’Connell, four men set out to conquer it. Among the sharply drawn team members is...

Chilling Effect

When attorney Lucinda Hayes reluctantly agrees to represent the mother of a brutally slain child, she must convince the court that the makers of a pornographic film are liable for the murder. As the case unfolds, Lucinda calls upon all her personal strength and legal talent, facing down her own g...

The Echo of Ice Letting Go

Rooted in the harsh, yet beautiful landscape of Alaska, this collection of poems is at once comforting and disquieting, permeated with wisdom, darkness, and resilience. Taken together, the poems form a powerful narrative, as Julie Hungiville LeMay relates a personal story of the recurrence of can...

Cabin, Clearing, Forest

“People break my heart. Every single one of them does.” In settings that range from rural fishing communities to the urban capital, the stories of Cabin, Clearing, Forest are a lyrical road map to the human landscape of contemporary Alaska. In “Blue Ticket,” a stranger finds solace in a Juneau ho...

Another Kind of Symmetry

Agni and Effie, identical twins, are inseparable until Agni is sent to Greece one summer to visit their grandmother after their grandfather’s sudden death. Until now the more conventional and accommodating of the two, Agni refuses to return to college, choosing instead to remain in their family’s...

During-the-Event

For D.E., only two certainties exist: his grandfather is dead and life will never be the same.During-the-Event is a dystopian adventure that roams across a fallen United States, introducing an unforgettable cast of characters along the way. In the near future, climate change has ravaged the Unite...

The Little Fox

When the ice he is sleeping on breaks up and floats away, Little Fox is accidentally transported to an island. As he explores his new home, he meets seabirds and fur seals and learns about their lives. Written and illustrated by a field biologist with years of experience in the Alaskan wilderness...

Ivory and Paper

“You might be in danger.” Thirteen-year-old Booker leads a sheltered life in Vermont—until a spellbinding relic throws him skidding into a world of magic and myths come to life. Anna is an Unangax̂ teenager looking for answers after her long-absent mother reappears in her life. When a mysterious ...

The Geography of Water

In this exquisite debut novel, Mary Emerick takes readers into the watery landscape of southeast Alaska and the depths of a family in crisis. An abusive father and a broken home forces a teenage Winnie to seek the safety of a neighboring bay and a pair of unlikely father figures. Years later her ...

Even Cowboys Carry Cell Phones

Like any legendary figure, the cowboy is part myth and part reality, memorialized by history and Hollywood, envied by those who spend days at desks and dream of trading swivel chairs for saddles. The writings in this anthology serve as testament to the cultural love, bordering on obsession, of th...

Madness and Literature

This book engages with literature’s multifarious ways of probing minds and bodies in a state of ill mental health. Chapters analyse literature that depicts issues and diagnoses such as trauma, psychosis, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, self-harm, hoarding disorder and PTSD from multiple theor...

Candide

Pastiche, imitation but also a continuation of Voltaire’s most celebrated tale, Candide, seconde partie, picks up many of the original’s themes. Leibniz, Descartes and Newton are gently mocked; Pascal is accused of trying to make us hate humankind.

Ourika

Ourika is the story of an African girl growing up in France: based on a true story, it was a runaway bestseller following its first publication in Paris in 1823. This is a corrected and updated reprint of the 1998 second edition of this text.

Poesías Inéditas U Olvidadas

A selection of poems from a poet writing at the turn of the twentieth century.

The Café Of Mirrors

This is the first translation into English of this Italian novel and the Introduction by Luisa Quartermaine includes background on the book.

Contes Américains

These three tales, unpublished for over a century (and in one case for nearly two centuries), are a fictional exploration of Otherness and the intercultural set in the New World, either among native Americans (Abenakis, Iroquois) or runaway slaves in Jamaica befriended by Quakers.

Day of the Angel

‘Day of the Angel’ follows the fates and fortunes of three generations of the Ushakov family, members of the Russian émigré community living in Paris following the Revolution.

Kutze, Stepp'n on Wheat

Alone on a midsummer night, Cat wakes to find a stranger dressed in yellow ‘rat-a-tap, tapping’ his feet. Captivated by the music of Kutze’s steps, Cat resolves to tread wheat like the stranger when he grows up: in the big city where he studies music or, eventually, further afield, across the sea.

The Isle of South Kamui and Other Stories

In this early collection of five short stories, Kyotaro Nishimura explores the criminal mind and what makes people do the unthinkable.

Red Like Orange

An offbeat tale of creativity, friendship, and finding your voice in this uproarious journey through Cairo's music scene in the early 2000s, where everything from American rock to Egyptian popular songs cultivates big dreamsWINNER OF THE SAWIRIS CULTURAL AWARDFollowing a breakup with his long-ter...

Look Homeward, Angel

Thomas Wolfe’s 1929 semi-autobiographical novel is a rich and detailed tapestry of human experience, chronicling the coming-of-age of Eugene Gant in the early 20th century.The narrative begins with Eugene's birth into a tumultuous family in the fictional town of Altamont, a place defined by his f...

The Maltese Falcon

Windy McPherson's Son

Windy McPherson’s Son (1916) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Both fictional and autobiographical, Anderson’s debut novel is a coming of age story that explores themes of unhappiness and infidelity while illustrating the frustrations of the son of an abusive father. Although he is known today for...

Marching Men

Marching Men (1917) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Both fictional and autobiographical, Anderson’s second novel is a coming of age story that explores the individual and collective identities shaping American life. Although he is known today for his story collection Winesburg, Ohio, a pioneerin...

The "Genius"

The “Genius” (1915) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Based partly on his own experience as an artist from the Midwest, The “Genius” examines the nature of talent, the difficulty of desire, and the meaning of faith itself. Although he had high hopes for the novel, reviews were mixed, and sales suff...

Servant and Mistress

Stephen Mason sets out to explore his submissive side with a range of available female partners, but ends up chasing an impossible passion with one married woman. A big, readable story of obsessive love and off-centre sex told with compassion, insight and humour.

A Spectre in the Stones

Lloyd Lewis is moving to yet another children’s home, but this one is different. It is possessed by the supernatural with poltergeists and a ghost creating havoc. Lloyd links the chaos to a nearby ravaged stone circle. But what is the link? And can Lloyd do anything to defuse this terrifying anar...

Jax' House

Do old houses hold secrets? Can those secrets affect the lives of people who live there now? Jack O’Hagen has moved to a house in Cornwall that certainly has a secret – a secret it is determined to share. 

Wish

An adaptation in narrative verse of a children’s fantasy tale, ‘The Rose-Coloured Wish’ (1923) by Florence Bone (1875–1971), ‘Wish’ is a timeless story that weaves adventure, humour and vivid characterisation into a subtle moral tale.

Rainbow

An adaptation in narrative verse of a children’s fantasy tale, ‘The Other Side of the Rainbow’ (1910) by Florence Bone (1875–1971), ‘Rainbow’ presents a series of magical adventures that lead the heroine and us to a greater sense of wonder about the living world.

The Female Ward

Dishari, a fourth-year engineering student, thinks of her treatment of a first-year as nothing but acceptable ‘ragging’ – the bullying of younger pupils by their seniors – something she herself experienced. But as events spiral out of control she is forced to question not only this, but the very ...

Russia Washed in Blood

This book is the first English translation of a vivid fictionalised account of the Russian Civil War of 1918–1921 by a gifted writer, Artyom Vesyoly, who made it his mission to record the full horror of the events of that period. For his failure to recognise the ‘leading organisational role’ of t...

Forever the Colours

A young soldier injured on the battlefield of modern-day Afghanistan awakens to a nightmarish world of cannon smoke and gunfire and the realisation that he has somehow been transported back to 1880 on the eve of one of the British army’s worst defeats, the battle of Maiwand.

Good Hope

When the European location for the World G8 Summit on AIDS is compromised, Cape Town is hurriedly chosen to host. But Scimitar, an impenetrable militant Islamic cell based on the tip of Africa, has other plans. Led by Sayeed Dhatri, a Cape Town-born Muslim, and advised by Tariq Dar, the key strat...

Apportionment of Blame

When Joyce Hetherington loses her half-sister in a mysterious railway accident, she calls on her old school friend, Greg Mason, to investigate. As the two sink deeper and deeper into the case, they begin to realise that certain seemingly unrelated threads in her family story – some stretching as ...

The Charlton Men

‘The Charlton Men’, the first part of a trilogy set in South London, follows two “Charlton Men” as their lives become intertwined with the fortunes of their local football club.

Deep Within A Woman's Heart

A love story, tested to its limits by the uncertainties imposed by a war-torn Europe, the devastating effects of long-buried family secrets and the incessant drive for retribution. The sinking of the RMS ‘Lusitania’ will change their lives forever…

Tao of Love

Sensitive and beautifully wrought, ‘Tao of Love’ follows Annabelle, a survivor of abhorrent childhood abuse, as she experiences the regenerative power of love.

God's Boat

A mother constantly dreams of a passionate and all-consuming past affair, of which nothing now remains but her daughter, as the two travel through Japan and through life, love and the terrible pain of loss.

The Bittersweet Vine

Following her abduction, Maria Shroder wakes up in her own bed unharmed and suffering from hysterical amnesia. Strangely, the book club Maria has joined holds a clue to her disappearance, and she sets out on a journey to uncover the truth – a truth which is buried in her past. 

The System

Jimmy, Ann and Kaz are fed up with the System. So, swearing to a suicide pact, they vow to take it down.

Norah Hoult’s ‘Poor Women!’

“Norah Hoult’s ‘Poor Women!'’: A Critical Edition” reintroduces a significant yet critically-neglected 20th-century Irish author. Hoult’s stories capture the restrictions imposed on women by society and its institutions. Often compared to writers such as Sean O’Faolain, Frank O’Connor, Kate O’Bri...

The Last Window-Giraffe

This dictionary-novel of dictatorship is a thrilling personal journey behind the Iron Curtain – and like nothing you have read before.

By the Rivers of Mazovia

Mikhoel Burshtin's novel paints an unforgettable portrait of a community—delicate, tenacious, and vulnerable: Poland, 1935, under the shadow of the Nazis' rise to the west, the Jews of Smolin continue to eke out their existence, marked by poverty, family tragedies, class conflict and anti-Semitism.

Moonlight

Summer, 1914. As the countdown to WWI begins, Clara, a passionate young London wife, discovers that her husband is having an affair. But when Clara also begins a relationship, she has to fight against the conventions of society and her own conscience so that she can really find love.  

Time Will Tell

A witty and fast-moving tale of treachery and ambition centred on a rare musical manuscript, set in the medieval past and the present day.

Candlelight

Autumn, 1914. As the generals take over from the politicians, and as both her husband and the man she loves fight on the front, Clara, a passionate young London wife, waits fearfully to see who will return from the fighting and what will become of her.  

Sir Rohan’s Ghost. A Romance

Originally published in 1860, the formative Gothic novel by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921), one of nineteenth-century America’s most significant woman writers, relates the tale of a tormented British aristocrat who struggles to retain his sanity while suffering horrifying visitations from ...

Perfect Nightmare

Earth, Air, Fire and Water form the backdrop to a tale of three characters who have a similar apocalyptic dream. Their travels take them across America where the story unfolds as the three struggle to make sense of the chaotic world of the Perfect Nightmare.

Forgotten Blood

‘Forgotten Blood’, Kamaljit Sood’s first play, highlights the enthusiasm with which Indian forces went to France to fight for the British Crown. The British rulers in India, however, reneged on their promises and resorted to repression of free speech and outright massacre.

Fairy Chimney Soda

“Fairy Chimney Soda” is a collection of short stories by Ercan Kesal, touching memories of his childhood in a small town near the famous fairy chimneys of Cappadocia.

Sekabo

In 2097, China runs the idyllic enclave of Sekabo on England’s Yorkshire coast. But can a secret from 1990 upset this settled world? 

Muscle

Family man Freddie Weston, who supplies bouncers for London clubs, lives by night and on the edge. He is seeking vengeance for a 40-year-old wrongdoing to his family, which means tangling with one of the most dangerous East End villains. And time is running out.

Death of a Butterfly

Art teacher Amanda returns home to find her husband, Mathew, murdered. The police have no leads and the only clue is a missing photograph album. Amanda soon learns that her husband had been taking out loans against her home, leaving her in negative equity, a fact the police are quick to latch ont...

Life Almost Still

One missing person case remains unsolved and now another student has disappeared from Barcelona University. His girlfriend and colleagues report matters to the police and university authorities but they refuse to become involved in the case, believing that he has left voluntarily. This soon chang...