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Louis Tracy (1863 - 1928) was a British journalist, and prolific writer of fiction. He used the pseudonyms Gordon Holmes and Robert Fraser, which were at times shared with M. P. Shiel, a collaborator from the start of the twentieth century. He was born in Liverpool to a well-to-do middle-class family....

Oyster is the second collection from prize-winning Edinburgh poet Michael Pedersen.From Grez-sur-Loing and festive nights to sizzling summers stretched out in the Meadows and Portobello, Michael Pedersen’s unique brand of poetry captures a debauchery and a disputation of characters, narrated with...

In the language of fan fiction, a 'Mary Sue' is an idealised and implausibly flawless character: a female archetype that can infuriate audiences for its perceived narcissism. Such is the setting for this brilliant and important debut by Sophie Collins. In a series of verse and prose collages,...

Payment of Revenge.Vigilante thriller; Revenge is sweet? Husband and wife team Lance and Jolene are Martial art experts who are dealing with rapists in a very special way. With Jolene as bait they need to lure their rapists in order to set their scheme in motion. Of course this is a highly...

The only grandchild of a Judge, Angela Canning Brown had been raised within a wealthy family and has lived a life of opulance. Always believing her father had died before she was born, Angela is shocked to learn on her twenty fifth birthday that he had been alive all along and living in London. His...

Tess Davey is an ambitious, hard-working police woman. After ten successful years in the service, she has risen to the rank of detective and earned herself an enviable reputation. But after the unexpected death of her beloved father, Tess is shocked when previously well-kept secrets about her family...

Jason Frasier grew up in the East End of London and was always told to look out for his younger brother. He did this willingly and could never see in Vincent what others could see, that he was a thoroughly nasty piece of work. The brothers were as different as chalk and cheese. Vincent had a nasty...

Poems. About deathmatch, about a certain sphinx, and about the self-imposed torture of drinking.Finland's hinterlands town Kouvola is known for its moonshine. With this horrible rust remover many weekends have been wasted, by traveling directly from Friday to Monday, without pausing at...

Had a problem writing an emotional scene in a novel I was working on. I tried writing fifty or sixty descriptions of emotions as an excercise.Some turned out to be quite entertaining and have built themselves into this book.Some may make you smile, some could make you sad, some you will relater to...

With tragicomic bravado and psychological insight, this collection paints a turbulent portrait of a father and his family, creating a poetic sequence that has the scope of a novel and stretches the sense of what is possible in poetry. Each poem is presented as an improvisation on the theme of the...

Moon Na is the author of two books. She also wrote shorts stories Reykjavik and Experimental etc.

Rising star in world-poetry First U.S. edition of Alexs Steger's most acclaimed poetry collection. Translated by acclaimed translator and poet Brian Henry

‘La taberna’ apareció por vez primera en 1877 y constituyó el primer gran éxito del novelista y una importante inyección económica. El autor se convirtió en una celebridad literaria y a su alrededor se agruparon una serie de escritores que se decían discípulos suyos. Definida por el propio Zola como...

La tragedia del rey Lear es la obra que trata sobre la ingratitud, de los padres que no aprecian a sus mejores hijos, y de los hijos ingratos que traicionan al rey Lear para usurpar el trono. Es uno de los últimos relatos de los dramas de Shakespeare basados en un mítico rey de Bretaña. El libro contiene 13 ilustraciones alusivas, y la biografía de Shakespeare.