Stefan's Zweig's posthumously-published Journey into the Past (Widerstand der Wirklichkeit) is a beautiful meditation on the effect of time on passion-one of the most intense and compelling works from a master of the novella form. Published by Pushkin Press with a cover designed by David Pearson and Clare Skeats as part of a new range of Stefan Zweig paperbacks. Kept away for nine years by the First World War Ludwig has finally returned home, reunited at last with the woman he had so passi...

A rising star on the Chicago Police Force and living with the love of his life, Maddy Richards, Sam Bartel thought he had it all. Then both his career and his relationship end, leaving Sam to start all over again. Sam opens a private investigation agency only to have Maddy step back into his life, begging him to solve her brother's murder. As Sam struggles with the feelings he still has for Maddy, the clues lead him straight to the sexual addiction clinic her new husband owns. As the myste...

Sam Bartell returns in a new mystery for fans of Consenting BehaviorEvery small town has its secrets and Dalton is no different...except these secrets are proving deadly. Chicago private investigator Sam Bartell finds himself caught up in his most baffling mystery to date as a visit to his comatose father leads to the discovery that a serial killer is loose in his hometown.As Sam works to uncover the killer's identity, the body count continues to rise. Will Sam solve the my...

In May 1927, nineteen-year-old Dinu Grigorescu, a skinny boy with literary ambitions, is newly arrived in Paris. He has been sent from Bucharest, the city of his childhood, by his wealthy father to embark upon a bohemian adventure and relish the unique pleasures of Parisian life.An innocent in a new city, still grieving the sudden loss of his beloved mother Elena seven years earlier, Dinu is encouraged to enjoy la vie de Bohème by his distant cousin, Eduard. But tentativel...

The haunting novel from Paul Bailey, whose work has been short-listed twice for the Booker Prize.At the age of seventy, Andrew Peters looks back across the years to remember life with his doting Uncle Rudolf, who rescued him from fascist Romania as a child. Vivid, often hilarious, stories of Rudolf’s brilliant but blighted singing career are intertwined with the slow unfolding of secrets that have shadowed Andrew’s otherwise happy life. Told in matchless prose, this deeply moving n...

Andy Cooper, a veteran detective on the St. Louis County Police Department faces his most challenging cases as his son, Michael begins his senior year in high school. A professor is discovered atop the atrium at the University of Missouri and Andy meets his new partner, Jason Trimble, a rookie, at the site of her murder.As autumn turns into a brutal winter, dismembered and frozen bodies are discarded along the interstate. The case is stalled until Andy gets his first solid lead fro...

TWENTY MILLION people have walked the acres of Knott's Berry Farm at Buena Park, California. Its chicken dinners, its wild west atmosphere, its "Ghost Town," are familiarly known to travellers from every part of the world. Less known, perhaps, is the remarkable story of Walter Knott and his family, who have built their strange enterprise into one of the wonder of the west.Here is the story of how a once penniless sharecropper parlayed ten acres of berries into a farm of golden wonde...

'A very funny book, but never jeering, full of pity, but unsentimentally harsh with the tragedy of old age which institutional kindness cannot cushion' Financial Times.Following the death from leukaemia of her daughter, Celia, Mrs Gadny goes to live with her sullen stepson Henry. But she finds little affection or contentment either with him, or with his selfish wife Thelma, or with their ungrateful children. She is sent to an old people's home, 'The Jerusa...

New to St Petersburg, young, naive Vanya Smurov finds a mentor in the enigmatic and intellectual Larion Stroop, who initiates him into a fascinating sphere of art and beauty. As Vanya is drawn into Stroop's world of aesthetic sensuality, he also becomes aware that Stroop is a frequenter of bathhouses: a homosexual. Disturbed by this revelation, Vanya abandons Stroop and moves to the Volga countryside in search of a more traditional existence. Yet he soon finds that the alternatives offered...

A moving tale about middle age, divorce, modern love, and returning home by one of the great American storytellers.Asher’s career as a Hollywood screenwriter has come to a humiliating end; so has his latest marriage. Returning to New York, where he grew up, he takes a room at a hotel and wonders what, well into middle age as he is, he should do next. It’s not a question of money; it’s a question of purpose, maybe of pride. In the company of the arch young poet Mich...

Growing up in inner-city Manchester in the 1970s and 80s was no easy feat-especially for a strong-willed Black kid navigating peer pressure, overt racism, and a system that often looked the other way. Paul Bailey had two choices: fight or flee. He chose to stand his ground.From his early days as a determined student and talented athlete to a 30-year career as a police officer, Paul's journey is one of resilience, defiance, and an unshakable commitment to justice. As the founder and...

The Diary of a Nobody is a comic masterpiece that has been hugely influential since its first publication in 1892.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features Weedon Grossmith’s original illustrations and an afterword by novelist Paul Bailey.Proud to be ensconc...