Her mouth was curved with a sly smile. Her lips, the color of a ripe strawberry, were half open. I wanted to crush these lips with my own, to caress them, to bite them, to taste her scent.She was so straightforward, so bold that I suddenly wanted to win the bet with all my might. All I could think about at the time was to tear her clothes off and take her there, in front of all this people.Books that never end, an experimental way of writing.

You've just read the opening pages of The Nothing Man, the true crime memoir Eve Black has written about her obsessive search for the man who killed her family nearly two decades ago. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle is reading it too, and with each turn of the page his rage grows. Because Jim was - is - the Nothing Man. The more Jim reads, the more he realises how dangerously close Eve is getting to the truth. He knows she won't give up until she finds him. He has no choice but to sto...

Many people today think of Satan as a little red demon with a pointy tail and a pitchfork—but this vision of the devil developed over many centuries and would be foreign to the writers of the Old Testament, where this figure makes his first appearances. The earliest texts that mention the Satan—it is always “the Satan” in the Old Testament—portray him as an agent of Yahweh, serving as an executioner of evildoers. But over the course of time, the Satan came to be regarded more as God’s enem...