Ian: 5018 books

Two American photo-journalists are touring the barren Karoo area of South Africa, doing research for an article on Global Warming that they hope will be published in National Geographic. Their journey leads them to a remote farm and an encounter with an old man who reminds us all of what the term...

Ian Watson is one of the most prolific short story writers in contemporary science fiction, with a range and invention that others might envy. In this collection we move from a ghostly occurrence in Catalonia to a memorably hallucinatory and atmospheric tale of eggs and ectoplasm in pre-glasnost Russia....

Drought is a natural disaster; starvation is a man-made tragedy. Preventing the first can go a long way to alleviating the second, but not without the political will, as Ian Mathie makes clear in this gripping memoir of the 1974 humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia. Dust of the Danakil is a true story...

Extensively illustrated with Ian McAllister's magnificent photographs, The Salmon Bears explores the delicate balance that exists between the grizzly, black and spirit bears and their natural environment, the last great wilderness along the central coast of British Columbia. Key to this relationship...

The verb esperar means to wait. It also means to hope.—“The Past Was a Small Notebook, Much Scribbled-Upon”, Cora Siré Waiting, that most human of experiences, saturates all of our lives. We spend part of each day waiting—for birth, death, appointments, acceptance, forgiveness, redemption....

Everybody over the age of forty is dying of a fungal disease, the older generation will soon be no more. Not everyone thinks this is a tragedy.Alistair's Mother is an inhuman, brutal monster. Now Mother, like the others is infected and he revells in her pain and suffering, pennance for the years of abuse at her hands. But Mother is not like the others, she isn't ready to die.

A series of sketches which the humorist, Ian Hay, has been publishing in Blackwood's under the above title, has more than anecdotal interest to those who can see In the boy the father of the man. Mr. Hay expresses the dominant quality as a dislike for mental cleverness coupled with "worship of force of character."

This delightful comic novel from Ian Hay follows the irrepressible Tilly Welwyn, a spirited and unique young woman, in her persistent attempts to catch the eye of an affluent suitor. Despite his affection for the girl, his family is dead-set against the match. Will these ill-matched lovers find a way to make it work?

Taking a break from the action-adventure tales that were his forte, Scottish writer Ian Hay presents his tongue-in-cheek views on the political and cultural situation facing England in the World War I era, with a particular focus on the controversy surrounding Ireland and its political autonomy.

In his breakthrough bestseller, The First Hundred Thousand, author Ian Hay brought humor and wit to a solemn subject in a first-hand account of a soldier's experience in World War I. He employs a similarly light touch in Getting Together, a discussion of the political and cultural relationship between England and the U.S. that unfolds like a pleasant fireside chat between friends.

Illinois, 1866.When 17 year old Francis Smalling’s elder sister is gruesomely murdered before his eyes, he joins the Pinkerton Detective Agency to find the killer. But Francis is no normal teenager, he has dabbled in the new sciences for years, and uses his skill, intelligence and guile to bring...

Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, bi-monthly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction,...

It is February 1942... German troops have held Britain for over a year.James Baird, a 22 year old student has joined the S.O.E. and has proven his worth in the resistance against the Germans in Edinburgh.After 6 weeks training in Canada, James has served in the African desert, and 'rescued'...

Ian Duhig’s erudite, compassionate and often wonderfully droll poetry sits at the intersection of the literary and folk traditions, and moves in an easy and masterly fashion between them. While this has lent his verse an enviable musicality and force, it has also written him a visa to places poets...