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...

The Space Post Express couriers deliver all kinds of parcels around the known (and unknown) galaxy, at affordable prices, no questions asked! Tod and Phil, though, take their job one step further. The two friends take on the craziest jobs and have built quite the reputation for themselves.When they find themselves on a small desert planet, stranded, their spaceship crashed, they don't lose hope. They've been through worse, right? But Tod's secret is revealed, and Phil suddenly disa...

In the darkest time of the Middle Ages, Gioncavallo, a blacksmith's son in medieval Italy is left alone to fend for himself after his parents died of a fever. No matter how hard he tries to avoid it, trouble always seem to find its way to him. Whether it is offended husbands, the city's lord, the church, or supernatural threats, Gioncavallo faces his problems head on, with inexhaustible willpower. But how long can a person live on the run, alone? And does he truly have bad luck, or is ther...

Helna, a young Norse woman who lives in the cold heart of Iceland, is the daughter of one of the strongest Jarls in the land. The rebellious girl and has no intention to follow her father's wishes for her future. Soon, however, she finds that her destiny has become shaped by an ancient Native American artifact that made its way to her father's shores. Helna must evoke all of her courage when her journey leads her to the Americas.

The rediscovered gay cult classic, published in English for the first time in thirty years'A classic of Italian gay fiction . . . the whole thing is bathed in elegiac pathos'SUNDAY TIMES'A story of love and youth and pain that will have you clutching at your heart . . . Surely one of the best novels I've ever read'ANDREW SEAN GREER, author of LESS and VILLA COCO'Beautiful and poignant'

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 ...

The story centers around Hanit, a powerful and captivating enchantress who possesses remarkable magical abilities. Set in a mythical world filled with adventure and intrigue, Hanit's journey unfolds as she navigates the challenges of her enchanted life.As Hanit encounters various characters—both allies and adversaries—she becomes embroiled in a struggle for power and love. The narrative explores themes of magic, self-discovery, and the complexities of human emotions. Hanit's enchanting nat...

I shouldn't have taken the night shift.Nic's list of regrets included much more than that, though. He regretted that his wife died before their daughter had grown. He regretted that he abandoned his daughter to his family to raise. He regretted fighting for two tours in a desert halfway across the world only to come back a broken man. And he regretted wallowing in the bottom of a bottle—or worse—for years before he finally tried to get back into his daughter's life and get...

As the war progressed Hitler did not need obedient bureaucrats like Keitel, failures like Paulus and was paranoid about having military leaders who were loyal. The three field marshals in this book were amongst the best.Field Marshal Kesselring gained a reputation in Italy as an expert in defense, and his Allied code name was The Emperor. Kesselring was diplomatic, charming, known as Smiling Albert, but convicted as a war criminal which may not have happened had it not been for the...

This book is based on the premise that love is not as spontaneous and free as one would have us believe. While it is true that love exists in all human communities, not all communities love in the same way. The words used to speak of love, which simultaneously reveal and censor, inform and sublimate, channel and repress the stirrings of the heart, are chosen according to everchanging social and cultural norms. Love stories or romans d' amour are widely read and appreciated by all classes o...

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...