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Dix Steele is back in town, and ‘town’ is post-war LA. His best friend Brub is on the force of the LAPD, and as the two meet in country clubs and beach bars, they discuss the latest case: a strangler is preying on young women in the dark.
It is 1939 and thw war in Europe has begun. On a freighter, somewhere in the Mediterranean, a man returning to England is being followed by German agents intent upon his death.
When Ben Harper is hanged for his part in a bank robbery, he leaves his young children John and Pearl to hide the $10,000. Soon a strange preacher comes to town and claims to have known their daddy.
When a man’s arm is fished out of the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, Maigret and his colleagues are puzzled. A woman’s arm they would understand as the work of a psychopath or a man’s body as a gang related killing, but they are even more puzzled when the rest of the man, minus his head, is dug out of the Canal. Maigret’s attention turns to Madame Calas, a strange woman running a bistro along with her husband near the canal. The husband is away in the country, Madame Calas willingly sleeps with anyone who asks (Maigret does not test this theory) and the judge soon arrests her, her lover (the main one), and a young delivery boy (also a lover). But Maigret is not satisfied and pushes further and uncovers a story, and a motivation for murder, that is far stranger than anything he has ever seen before.
This Lew Archer novel opens with a well dressed woman hesitantly engaging Archer’s services at his LA office. Soon he is digging up all kinds of secrets in her oil-rich home town.
Con man Deke O’Hara is out of the state penitentiary and hoping to work the scam of a lifetime. But the $87,000 he has schemed has been hijacked and hidden in a bale of cotton. Worse still, Harlem’s toughest cops are on everyone’s trail.
After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man’s death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan’s widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation. But on the very day that Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter from the dead man. Do the East Germans – and their agents – know more about this man’s death than the Circus previously imagined? Le Carré’s debut novel introduced the tenacious and retiring George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit.
‘Beautiful Star’ is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was the novel Mishima considered to be his masterpiece. Translated into English for the first time, this atmospheric black comedy tells the story of the Osugi family, who come to the sudden realization that each of them hails from a different planet: Father from Mars, mother from Jupiter, son from Mercury and daughter from Venus. This extra-terrestrial knowledge brings them closer together, and convinces them that they have a mission: to find others of their kind, and save humanity from the imminent threat of the atomic bomb.
Dionne Brand’s poetry makes scalar leaps from the ‘eroding present’ and the ‘intimacy of history’ to ‘unknown galaxies’ and ‘as yet unarmed moons’. With a consciousness that is attuned to this world and open to some other, possibly future, time and place, Brand’s ongoing labours of witness and imagination speak directly to where and how we live and reach beyond those worlds, their enclosures, and their violences. With a critical introduction by scholar and theorist Christina Sharpe, ‘Nomenclature’ is the searing volume spanning a decades-long career, from 1982-2022, and gathering the new and collected poems of one of Canada’s most honoured, significant and bestselling poets.
This rich and surprising anthology is a holistic, global survey of a lyric conversation about the divine, one which has been ongoing for millennia. Beginning with the earliest attributable author in all of human literature, the twenty-third century BCE Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna, and taking in a constellation of voices – from King David to Lao Tzu, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Malian Epic of Sundiata – this selection presents a number of canonical figures like Blake, Dickinson and Tagore, alongside lesser-anthologized, diverse poets going up to the present day.
Magical books, infinite libraries, parallel worlds, mazes, labyrinths and philosophical paradoxes haunt these spellbinding tales by one of the most uniquely inventive short story writers of the twentieth century. This collection brings together many of Borges’s greatest and most beloved stories, including ‘The Garden of Forking Paths’, ‘The Book of Sand’, and ‘Shakespeare’s Memory’.
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