A detective novel set in turn-of-the-century New York City, in which a young lawyer plays the sleuth. Packed with plot twists .

The classic 1963 full-cast BBC Radio production, starring Richard Burton'To begin at the beginning: it is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black...'When Richard Burton breathed the opening words of Under Milk Wood into a microphone, broadcasting history was made. For this 'play for voices' conjures up the intimate dreams and waking lives of the inhabitants of a Welsh seaside village in a remarkable way. It is bawdy and b...

Strange. Beautiful. Shocking. Surreal.APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards.EDITORIALEditorial by Jason SizemoreORIGINAL FICTIONBarefoot and Midnight by Sheree Renée ThomasThe Amazing Exploding Women of the Early Twentieth Century by A.C. WiseBlack Box of the T...

The 'Tales of Civil War: 40 Books Collection' presents a compelling anthology that delves deeply into the complexities of the American Civil War. Through a diverse assortment of literary styles, from vivid narratives and historical fiction to reflective essays, this collection transports readers to a pivotal era in history. The anthology's wide-ranging themes explore the multifaceted realities of war, human resilience, and the quest for freedom and identity. With standout narratives that c...

A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MATT DAMON, JUDE LAW AND GWYNETH PALTROWOne of the BBC's 100 Novels that shaped our world.'An outstanding thriller which has deservedly become a classic' THE TIMES'Ripley - amoral, hedonistic and charming - is a genuinely original creation' DAILY TELEGRAPH'I'm a huge Highsmith fan. If there's one book I wish I'd written, it's The ...

“A page turner. . .Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. . .in her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our own deepest concerns: love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality.” – Alice Hoffman, The Washington PostA rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King David, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of People of the Book and March.**With more than two million copies of her novels sold, New York ...

**“Plague stories remind us that we cannot manage without community . . . Year of Wonders is a testament to that very notion.” – The Washington PostAn unforgettable tale, set in 17th century England, of a village that quarantines itself to arrest the spread of the plague, from the author The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize**When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemai...

Published in 1922, the same year as Ulysses and The Waste Land, Jacob’s Room is Virginia Woolf’s own modernist manifesto. Ostensibly a study of a young man’s life on the eve of the Great War, it is really a bomb thrown into the world of the conventional novel, as she attempts to capture the richness and randomness of life’s encounters. Jacob Flanders is a mere point of contact between a crowd of people, appearing and disappearing in a tableau in which all is flux, without certainty and wit...

THE BESTSELLER THAT DEFINED AN AGEFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch'Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together---my future, my past, the whole of my life---and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!'Under the infl...

A brilliant new collection of stories from one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers of our time.Alice Munro’s peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again everywhere apparent in this brilliant new collection. In story after story, she illumines the moment a life is forever altered by a chance encounter or an action not taken, or by a simple twist of fate that turns a person out of his o...

Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified—but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done.Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London Hotel have been murdered, and a cufflink has been placed in each one's mouth. Could there be a connection with the frightened woman? While Poirot s...

'A literary rite of passage.' The Times'Plath changed our world.' GuardianEsther is supposed to be having the time of her life. Her internship at a fashion magazine is a whirl of cocktail parties and dinner dates in the shimmering city. But why doesn't she feel anything? Back home in the suburbs, she is trapped inside a suffocating bell jar . She can't write her novel; her boyfriend is a hypocrite; ...