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** Longlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize**'A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book' Annie ProulxA...

In this absorbing analysis of modern Irish writing, an acknowledged expert considers the hybrid character of modern Irish writing to show how language, culture and history have been affected by...

From the towering imagination of literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes seven feverishly unsettling works.A precocious eleven-year-old, in thrall to the mysterious black sheep of the family, climbs into his...

Selected by #1 bestselling author Lee Child: the twenty finest short stories of 2021.There is no finer form for a crime than the short story. WIthin a few pages, a...

The San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year ListIndie Next Pick "For Reading Groups"From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of...

Don Gifford's annotations to Joyce's great modern classic comprise a specialized encyclopedia that will inform any reading of "Ulysses". The suggestive potential of minor details was enormously fascinating to Joyce,...

This is a collection of true-life stories of the most brutal and depraved of killers, the men and women whose crimes have shocked the civilized world and for whom killing...