The Accident on the A35 returns to the scene of Burnet’s accomplished first novel, The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau--the small French town of Saint-Louis. Detective Gorski is called away from his night of solitary drinking to the site of a car accident that left Bertrand Barthelme, a respected solicitor, dead. When the deceased's rather attractive wife suggests that the crash may not have been an accident, Gorski looks closer into Barthelme's circumspect movements on the...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize • Shortlisted for the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards • Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize • Longlisted for the 2022 HWA Gold Crown Award • Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary AwardSELECTED BY NEW YORK TIMES AS ONE OF 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2022The Booker-shortlisted author of His Bloody Project blurs the lines between patient and therapist, fiction and documentation, and realit...

Shortlisted for the 2026 Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime Fiction • Shortlisted for the 2026 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction • Longlisted for the 2026 Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger Award • Longlisted for the 2025 Highland Book Prize • A Globe 100 Best Book of 2025Booker-nominated Graeme Macrae Burnet returns to the historic Scotland of His Bloody Project to tell the multi-layered story of madness and mur...

Sorcha is over the hook-ups and gay haunts of her twenties. At thirty-one what she wants, more than anything, is to have a baby. Then she meets Chris—with her buttoned-up plaid, 90s heartthrob hair, and grand romantic gestures—and things get serious. Fast. Though Sorcha’s friends find her new partner problematic, Sorcha has an explanation for everything.As Chris’s moods turn volatile and Sorcha becomes increasingly isolated, Chris paints an idyllic picture of domestic bliss in Cape...

"A stylish, atmospheric mystery with a startling twist . . . satisfies like Simenon and surprises like Ruth Rendell. I can't give it any higher praise."--NPRManfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings quietly drinking and surreptitiously observing Adèle Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at a drab bistro in the unremarkable small French town of Saint-Louis. One day, she simply vanishes into thin air and Geo...

Man Booker Prize Finalist, LA Times Book Prize Finalist, New York Times Editor’s Choice, and an American Booksellers Association National Indie Bestseller!Named a Best Book of 2016 by Newsweek, NPR, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Sunday Times!In the smash hit historical thriller that the

Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime FictionFrom the Booker-nominated author of Case Study and His Bloody Project comes the next adventure of Inspector Gorski.In the unremarkable French town of Saint-Louis, a mysterious stranger stalks the streets; an elderly woman believes her son is planning to kill her; a prominent businessman drops dead. Between visits to the town’s drinking establishments, Chief ...

De Optimo Republicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia (translated On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia) or more simply Utopia is a 1516 book by Sir (Saint) Thomas More.In 1516 More wrote his most famous and controversial work, Utopia, a novel wherein a traveller, Raphael Hythloday (in Greek, his name and surname allude to archangel Raphael, purveyor of truth, and mean "speaker of nonsense"), describes the political arrangements of the imaginary island country of Ut...

Douglas Burnet Smith’s poems transform echoes of history and myth into moments of insight, bringing the ancient and contemporary worlds of Greece into vivid, often surreal collisionIn Ghost Oracle,a Santorini “dream reader” slices open the poet’s palm with a thorn and analyzes the blood pattern; Athenian subways rattle under the Acropolis as protesters are teargassed in the streets; hooded specters rise out of a blaze of poppies at a café beside a 3,000 ye...

When Ada falls for a body piercer named Pan, her cheeky grandmother, Mattie, says she looks like a caught trout with all those hooks in her mouth. Ada soon discovers Mattie is also caught in a perpetual swoon. It isn't just Alzheimer's, or the secret vibrator Ada's mother, Joan, is convinced Mattie has stashed in her room—Mattie is having a passionate affair with a ghost.When Joan buys a house in the north end, the three generations move in next door to Ken—who operates on...

In "Early Greek Philosophy," John Burnet presents a comprehensive exploration of the pre-Socratic thinkers who laid the foundation for Western philosophical thought. Delving into the writings and ideologies of figures such as Heraclitus, Pythagoras, and Anaxagoras, Burnet adopts a scholarly tone, meticulously analyzing their contributions and situating them within the broader historical and cultural context of ancient Greece. The clarity and depth of his prose invite readers to engage crit...

John Burnet (1863-1928) was a Scottish classicist who made lasting contributions to the field of philosophical studies, primarily in Ancient Greek philosophy. In particular, it was Burnet who originally theorized that Platos Socratic dialogues, which cast Socrates as the central character, were reflections of Socrates views instead of Platos own. There is still debate over whether Plato has Socrates trumpet Platos views instead of his own, but Burnet believed that Platos late dialogues, few o...