An exploration of stories from Joe Waite and the lives of 64 fallen comrades during the Third Battle of Ypres enduring the impact of war. Written neither as a conventional biography or battalion history, this work centres on the remarkable life of Joe Waite, a boy soldier of the Great War. Though, in telling his story, the names and lives of 64 of his fallen comrades are also revealed. All were lost in just one month of fighting, during the hell that was the Third Battle of Ypres – also kn...

In AD 43, the Romans landed an invasion force on the shores of Britain that heralded the beginnings of recorded British history and laid the cultural foundations of today's national identity. Yet despite the crucial importance of this event, the actual location of the landings remains unclear. From Victorian antiquarians to today's modern scholars and archaeologists, there has been much written over the years with regard to this particular question, with Richborough in Ken...

Here is a volume of eight short stores exploring the vagaries of the human mind as it has evolved from the micro-cosmic singularity into today's macro-gestalt, the product of a brain containing more organisms than there are stars in the known universe. From Belligerent Jerry's brief sojourn into politics, to the demise of Beauty, a disturbance in the universal equilibrium may be attributable to the flap of a butterfly's wings in northern England, but is, in fact, merely the creation of an ...

Classic Tales Of Horror offers up fifteen slices of powerful story-telling from the world’s great authors. From Henry James and Ambrose Bierce to Bram Stoker and Charles Dickens. Read by John Waite (BBC Radio 4), Sarah Douglas (Superman I & II), Michael Fenton-Stevens (Spitting Image, KYTV, Hitch-hiker’s Guide) and Ben Onwukwe (London’s Burning, Othello).The Man & The Snake by Ambrose Bierce – Read by Sarah DouglasMan-Size In Marble by E Nesbitt – Read by John Waite...

To commemorate this silver milestone, Mysterious Press presents 18 specially commissioned stories by the finest mystery and suspense writers working today.

Famous radio private eye Guy Noir leaps from A Prairie Home Companion to the pageOn the 12th floor of the Acme Building, on a cold February day in St. Paul, Guy Noir looks down the barrel of a loaded revolver in the hands of geezer gangster Joey Roast Beef who is demanding to hear what lucrative scheme Guy is cooking up with stripper-turned-women's-studies-professor Naomi Fallopian. Everyone wants to know-Joey, Lieutenant McCafferty, reporter Gene Williker...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award–winning author of The Tortilla Curtain comes an “entertaining and informative” (Chicago Tribune) novel about global warming and ecological collapse.“Funny and touching, antic and affecting . . . while Boyle’s humor is as black as ever, he demonstrates that satire can coexist with psychological realism, comedy with compassion.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesIt is the year ...

Dennis Lehane returns to coedit, with Cotton & Clarke, the sequel to the best-selling evergreen anthology Boston Noir , culling classic stories from the city's dark literary legacy."The contributor list is delightfully quirky . . . The collection's unifying element is a deep understanding of Boston's Byzantine worlds of race and class—as seen terrifyingly in Andre Dubus's tale of mill town resentment and pampered preppies." — Boston Globe

Edited byRichard Ford and featuring stories by Russell Banks, Alice Munro, Tobias Wolff,Jhumpa Lahiri, JohnCheever, and many others, Blue Collar,White Collar, No Collar is a profound and groundbreaking anthologyexploring resonant themes of employment, service, and daily obligations asunique windows into our culture, our society, and our very humanity. With ashare of proceeds going to assist the literacynonprofit 826Michigan, this unforgett...

Black Heart Magazine has been publishing new fiction online every Friday since 2008. Now enjoy the first of our new themed digital issues, The NOIR Issue, featuring heavyweights from the nouveau-crime genre including Christopher Benton, Dan O'Shea, Benjamin Sobieck, Stephen D. Rogers, Jonathan Woods and more.Guest edited by crime fiction enthusiast and web writer extraordinaire Jimmy Callaway, this anthology of short fiction, poetry and noir-inspired artwork combines the best from ...

Upon its publication, Assorted Fire Events won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and received tremendous critical praise. Ranging across America, taking in a breathtaking array of voices and experiences, this story collection now stands as one of the finest of our time.

The literature of larceny welcomes a newcomer with some serious chops, as Steven M. Thomas muscles his way to a place at the table–elbow-to-elbow with Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen–courtesy of a harrowing, hilarious, two-fisted, hard-boiled thriller that’s pure heaven for anyone who loves a hell of a crime novel.Robert Rivers is a crook. No excuses, no apologies. Breaking the law is his calling, crime is his rush, capers his reason for getting up in the morning and staying up lat...