Leon: 1324 books

In a cave on the wild side of St James's Park live two ragged children; young Nick and his nine-year-old sister Jubilee. Once they had a father, but now they are alone – and Nick knows it is his responsibility to find Jubilee a husband. But who would want to marry a girl who can neither cook nor sew, read nor write?

In 1847, an orphaned baby is rescued as the sole survivor of a massacre in a Polish village. Many years later a mysterious and disturbed Russian lady turns up unexpectedly at one of Mr Dolly’s regular Friday night dinner parties. So begins a search for identity and lost inheritance in the seedy and crowded streets of nineteenth century London.

'Him what's born on the chime . . . he's the one what'll have communications with the devil.' At the age of fourteen, 'chime-child' Peter Gannet is apprenticed to a locksmith in Covent Garden. But his desperate longing to escape from the insufferable adults around him and go to sea leads him...

A New York Review Children's Collection Original The Complete Bostock and Harris combines two delightful, suspenseful, and madly funny tales about two boys in eighteenth-century England, clever and mischievous Harris and sweet but not-so-bright Bostock, who in spite of their differences are...

Two boys, Lewis and Richard, travel to paris in 1789 for very different reasons, and find their ideals challenged in the events of the French Revolution and the September massacre.

A Working Men’s Club is in Financial trouble. The Committee have to convince the members to agree to their bold plan to avoid imminent closure. The deadline for agreement has to be made that night but how will the vote go? A humorous short story of how a club in desperate trouble hopes to find a way of surviving.

During the night of a storm, an Appalachian girl delivers a baby and disappears. Next morning, Raymond Toker finds the baby under a bush and takes to the mountain roads to find her a home. While Turner carries out his quest, the child's father, Truman, with teeth as rotten as his soul, drives his battered car along the same paths.

Presented in a stark dystopian setting, this extraordinary novella follows a lesbian couple on their journeys through the nightmarish reality of the disenfranchised. Peppered with Scottish slang and populated with a wide range of misfits, this book empowers the protagonists living on Glasgow's grim streets and offers a strong feminist perspective.

Commissario Brunetti onderzoekt op aandringen van zijn vrouw de dood van de hulp van de plaatselijke stomerij. De man was doofstom en achterlijk, en lijkt te zijn gestorven door een overdosis slaappillen. Het vreemde is echter dat Brunetti geen spoor van hem kan terugvinden in het geboorteregister....

Op een regenachtige ochtend, vlak na de begrafenis van zijn moeder, wordt commissario Brunetti samen met zijn assistent Vianello opgeroepen bij een lichaam dat in het water drijft. Een lok goudblond haar is nog te zien, evenals een klein kindervoetje. Het blijkt een beeldschoon meisje te zijn dat...

From a fatal shooting in a saloon in San Antonio to violence in the streets of Fort Griffin, Beyond Double Mountain is the fast paced story of a desperate man being hunted by determined lawmen. But is the man they pursue who they think he is? Set on the Texas frontier during the mid 1870's, Loy's novel...

This is the story of a bricklayer. A master of his craft, he keeps its sacred teachings secret. For him a house is the dwelling place of a soul, and a house must be built in the right spirit or the soul inside it will suffer. The building of an arch is a ritual to obtain a right relation with the...

Told in a series of vignettes, tall tales, and remembrances, and peopled by a host of characters as wild as the lives they lead, the immigrant community of 6th Street, Taylor, Nevada is home to a mixed bag of Eastern Europeans.