Author: Kurt Vonnegut In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking...

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Ismail Kadare From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to kill his brother's murderer...

Ellis Peters A MORBID TASTE FOR BONES. In 1137 the head of Shrewsbury Abbey decided to acquire the remains of St Winifred for his Benedictine order. Brother Cadfael is part...

Brothers Grimm Jacob Grimm and his brother Wilhelm were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in...

Author: Iris Murdoch As an old man lies on his deathbed reliving his past in reverie, each person involved in his life undergoes a subtle transformationPublished November 18th 1976 by...

Author: Edmund Crispin The classic crime thrillers of Edmund Crispin are quite unlike any others in their constantly digressing good humour, their smart puzzle-setting and their strong-skewed sense of what...

Carol Ryrie BrinkCaddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother's dares every chance she gets. Caddie is...

Colleen McCullough It's 54 BCE. Gaius Julius Caesar is sweeping thru Gaul, crushing the fierce, long-haired warrior-kings who stand in his way. His victories in the name of Rome are...

Henry Roth When Henry Roth published Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books were hard to...

Herman ParishFunny bonesThe doctor is out! But Amelia Bedelia is ready to help a crowd of grouchy patients. Along the way she doses out some of the best medicine of...

Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThere has been no such analysis of the corrupting power of the police state in Soviet literature - Stuart Hood in the ListenerSolzhenitsyn, like Oleg Kostoglotov, the central character...