Paul Allen: 76 books

THE PAUL ALLEN READER is an introduction to the work of Paul Allen spanning four decades of writing and including extended excerpts of six of his novels, revealing an extraordinary range and stylistic virtuosity: the realistic, the surrealistic, the historical, the contemporary, and the thriller....

By his early thirties, Paul Allen was a world-famous billionaire-and that was just the beginning. In 2007 and 2008, Time named Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft, one of the hundred most influential people in the world. Since he made his fortune, his impact has been felt in science, technology,...

Now in paperback, the hugely acclaimed, authorised biography of Britain's most popular playwright Alan Ayckbourn is Britain's most popular playwright and its most private. He has won numerous awards for his plays and has worked with some of theatre's most celebrated names, yet he spends most...

The newest title in the series Survivor Stories, this book tells the story of Paul Allen, a photographer who likes opera and was a good baritone singer. At the age of 56 he sustained a stroke that left him paralysed and speechless. He has Locked-In Syndrome (LIS), a rare consequence of brain damage....

“The American Negro,” Arthur Schomburg wrote in 1925, “must remake his past in order to make his future.” Many Harlem Renaissance figures agreed that reframing the black folk inheritance could play a major role in imagining a new future of racial equality and artistic freedom. In Deep River...

In this book, Paul Allen and Douglas Naylor recount their years together in one of the most feared hooligan firms since the 1970s. This is an electrifying and intelligent account of the legendary decades when owls Crime Squad dominated casual violence. It is an uncompromising look at soccer culture and the violence that surrounds it.

Huddled in her hot cage in a run-down roadside menagerie called Apeland, Margaret, a thousand-pound gorilla, hoots unhappily for her dead mate.  Just up the road, at the taxidermist's shop, an old lady is paying for having her kitty cat stuffed.  Down the road a subdivision is going up in...

   Ed Greene, a National Guardsman, returns from Iraq with a troubled conscience and stolen artifacts, discovers his wife is being unfaithful, and is haunted by a ghost in the antique village where he has his cabin.  He finds his true love but fearing for her safety with the apparition, drives...

Two slaves, Joe Cudjo and his wife Janie, run away from a Georgia plantation, taking a small boat down the river into Florida. There on the riverbank was the "Negro Fort," a stronghold of runaway slaves and renegade Indians. At the fort, Joe becomes a soldier in its army. He and Janie begin...

The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly brief relative to its impact. Examining every major poet from Catullus to Ovid, Subjecting Verses...

In the early 1930's, a vicious criminal, alleged to be a prophet and the grandson of the great Seminole war chief, Osceola, escapes from a Florida prison along with two condemned black convicts, recruits a few reservation tribesmen sick of being "road stand Indians," snatches a pair of young hostages...

    Marty Williams, an Obama speechwriter, does not get the promised administration job, cannot return to the newspaper because it is closing, loses everything, and sets out in a snowstorm with all he has left, his car and his dog, for California where his picaresque adventures begin...

In the southern New England woods, Eugene Sibbs, descended from an old Yankee line, has nothing left but a few acres, the bunker-like house he has built, and daring ruthlessness. Determined to take control of his world and rise through crime, he likes to drag along his teenage son, Nickie, as his...

Pretzel Logic is a collection of nine short stories from John Paul Allen. Stories found in this collection:Weeping Mary When Marissa Ruiz entered foster care she was warned, "Don't let them get too close to you, don't let them get you alone and don't let them tuck you in at night." She was prepared...