Journalist and television producer Will Wyatt's account of growing up in Oxford in the 1940s and 1950s is a delightful, absorbing read.... He writes with fondness and humour, recalling the simple pleasures of England in the period.' -The Lady, 'Book of the Week''A very enjoyable read. Joyful and often very funny, the story moves along at a constantly entertaining pace. It's a great celebration of growing up.' -Michael Palin'This is a remarkable memoir. Oxford Boy offers us a complete pictu...

15 stories by the author (Otto Feige aka Ret Marut) who later became famous as B. Traven (Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Death Ship etc), written during the years when he was an itinerant actor and journalist in Germany before and during WW1. Most of these stories first appeared when Marut was editing an obstreperous anarchist anti-war magazine, 'Der Ziegelbrenner ('The Brickburner') ...

Some immortals live to fulfill their purpose. He'd rather live for himself.Alyosha Mikhailov, avatar of Evil and continent-wide villain for roughly seven thousand years, is frankly over it. With his quiet manners and sensitive heart, the prophecy that keeps reincarnating him into the role of Big Bad feels less like fate and more like a cosmic joke. So he decides to do the unthinkable and ask for help from the only other immortal he knows—the avatar of Good. Otherwi...