A beautiful celebration of the joy of reading from bestselling children's author Piers Torday."Perhaps the greatest gift is reading itself."Join Girl, her loyal companion Dog, and new arrival Baby Brother on a magical journey to discover books. Together, they explore the many joys of reading: for happiness, adventure, empathy and even future success. From the quiet magic of libraries to the warmth of sharing stories at home, their world, reflections, ad...

A highly illustrated look at the Allied push to stop the Germans across central Italy, culminating in a battle in the middle of Florence.Following the fighting at Anzio and Cassino in 1944, the Allies were in pursuit of the Germans, who had managed to get away when the Americans took Rome. With experienced troops recalled from Italy to participate in the invasions of Normandy and southern France, the Allied numbers dwindled, only partially replaced by three divisio...

Poet, linguist, novelist, filmmaker, and journalist, Pasolini was one of the great post-Marxist homosexual artists of his time. As such, he encountered problems throughout his career as both a writer and a filmmaker. The expression of his own sexuality in his art consistently offended not only the Roman Catholic orthodoxy of post-war Italy, but also the Marxist establishment. His vision of Marxism offended Catholics, while his interest in Christian culture irritated Communists. [...] From ...

In The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini reimagines Dante’s descent into Hell not as allegory but as lived, historical reality—urban, political, and deeply personal. Written in the final years of his life, this unfinished and fiercely experimental work leads us through the wreckage of modern Italy: housing projects, consumer culture, political betrayal, the spiritual void left in the wake of fascism and capitalism alike. The poet is no longer a pilgrim, but a witness—disillusioned, irreverent, obse...

'A singular voice'NEW YORK TIMES'Tondelli shaped the sound of a generation'PARIS REVIEWSummer 1983, Rimini.Against the crowded panorama of the Adriatic Riviera, dazzling with its neon lights and promised pleasures, seven lives intersect.A young journalist on his first important assignment, determined to unravel a web of political corruption.A woman sea...

Summer 1983, Rimini.On the beaches and in the nightclubs of the Adriatic Riviera, dazzling with its neon lights and promised pleasures, seven lives intersect.A young journalist on his first important assignment, determined to unravel a web of political corruption.A woman searching for her runaway teenage sister - and a new life after the end of her marriage.A gossip columnist who follows the dramatic unfolding of an internat...

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A deliciously inventive and immersive novel for fans of Cain's Jawbone and the books of G. T. Karber: A reclusive writer dies under suspicious circumstances. His proofreader knows the truth. In this book, he has hidden 1,000 mistakes. Only those who find them will be able to piece together the secret message and solve the puzzle.Uncorrected Proofs is filled with errors—typos, lexical and grammatical mistakes, malaprops, factual inaccuracies, incon...

Notorious writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final novel—visionary, phenomenally strange, and unfinished at the time of his brutal murder—tells a fragmentary and characteristically provocative story of an oil executive split between the desire to dominate and the desire to be dominated.Seventeen years after Pier Paolo Pasolini’s brutal death, his sprawling, unfinished magnum opus was published in Italy. Petrolio is an extraordinary display of Pasol...

Earth is now an industrial harvest. The alien Tower looming over Los Angeles operates as a flawless, miles-high abattoir, processing human beings with terrifying mechanical efficiency. Jonas Cook wasn't trained for combat; he was a supply-chain auditor. But understanding the cold logistics of the enemy's system is the only reason he's still alive.Trapped deep within the labyrinth of the Tower's kill floors alongside a desperate handful of survivors, Jonas has one impossible goal: c...

Ten years have passed since the destruction at Portsmouth. Sampton lies in ruin, Portsmouth was lost to the raiders, and the Kingdom of Laundun's borders lessen with each passing year. Famine, raiding, cannibals, and corruption seep into every corner of the Kingdom, yet through it all, the people try to survive and even thrive in a world that had long since moved on from Technology.Max Ferguson (formerly Maxwell York) has also moved on since then. His daughter, Lily Ferguson, had g...

This volume assesses the formidable Special Forces fielded by Italy's navy and air force in World War II.Italian Navy Special Forces were particularly active and respected in the Mediterranean, where 10th Motor-Torpedo Boat Flotilla used frogmen, 'two-man torpedoes' and explosive ram-boats. The Italian Air Force formed a special commando unit, ADRA, before the 1943 surrender; it was tasked with attacking Allied airfields and communications in North Africa.M...