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It was...unnecessary for me to fret about who the murderer was: Everybody was."A haunting, never-before-translated, autobiographical novella by the 2002 Nobel Prize winner. An unnamed narrator recounts a simple anecdote, his sighting of the Union Jack-the British Flag-during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, in the few days preceding the uprising's brutal repression by the Soviet army. In the telling, partly a digressive meditation on "the abs...

A revealing exploration into how trust defines our lives, how it can be won and lost, and what its future might look like, in this fascinating addition to Melville House UK's FUTURES series.

From Russia to The Democratic Republic of Congo to Myanmar, Chris Stephen ponders the future of prosecuting war criminals who think themselves untouchable in this timely new book, part of Melville House UK's FUTURES series.

VICE columnist, freelance journalist and proud Welshman Rhys Thomas considers the future of Wales in this wide-ranging, deeply researched and passionate volume in Melville House UK's new series, FUTURES.

Throwing Muses frontwoman and critically acclaimed solo artist Kristin Hersh meditates on the future of her craft in this wry, existential and passionate addition to Melville House UK's new series, FUTURES.

I am indeed provoked at the artifice of this unprincipled woman."This high-spirited tale, told through an exchange of letters, is unique in Jane Austen's small body of work. It is the story of Lady Susan, a brilliant, beautiful and morally reprehensible coquette who delights in making men fall in love with her, deceiving their wives into friendship and even tormenting her own daughter, cruelly bending her to her will. Austen clearly delighted ...

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Qui plus est, ils revenaient des souterrains et découvraient tout juste la situation. Ils évoluaient dans la pénombre, en même temps que les hordes de mort-vivants ravageant leur refuge à la surface. Ils venaient de passer les barricades, leur unique sécurité. Les morts et les survivants, engagés dans un combat contre la mort, couraient partout. Des cris, des Tammes, des hurlements retentissaient aux quatre coins du camp. Vout le monde paniquait.

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With a foreword by Roberto Martâinez"--Cover.

The moment you check your phone in the morning you are giving away data. Before you've even switched off your alarm, a whole host of organizations have been alerted to when you woke up, where you slept, and with whom. As you check the weather, scroll through your "suggested friends" on Facebook, you continually compromise your privacy. Without your permission, or even your awareness, tech companies are harvesting your information, your locatio...

A New York Times Editors' Choice "Luminous and beguiling . . ."--The Washington Post "Magical Realism at its best . . ."--The Wall Street Journal From one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Chinese literature, an uncanny and playful novel that blurs the line between human and beast... In the fictional Chinese city of Yong'an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creatures live a...

First published in the UK in 2019 by Laurence King/Orion Publishing Group"--Title page verso.

A bold new look at justice and ethics in America, told through interwoven lives of condemned prisoners and the men and women who come to visit themIn 2018, after a decade's hiatus, the state of Tennessee began executing death row inmates. In two years, six men have been executed and more await. While nationally executions are at historic lows, Tennessee is executing more prisoners than any other except Texas, a state six times larger. Award-wi...

Based on historic events, and frighteningly relevant to today's headlines -- a taut thriller about one American diplomat's year of living dangerously in Tehran in the days leading up to the Iranian Revolution … In the style of Alan Furst, this suspenseful thriller -- based on real events -- places an idealistic American diplomat in a turbulent, US-hating Tehran in the days leading up to the Iranian Revolution. Backed by the CIA, and trailed by...

This real life Western tells the story of how citizens in a small Arizona border town stood up to anti-immigrant militias and vigilantes.The Marauders uncovers the riveting nonfiction saga of far-right militias terrorizing the border towns of Southern Arizona. In one of the towns profiled, Arivaca, rogue militia members killed a man and his nine-year-old daughter in 2009. In response, the residents organized and spent two years trying to push ...

Winner of an English PEN award, Strange Beasts of China is a disquieting bestiary that blurs the line between human and beast told with stylistic verve by one of most exciting voices in contemporary Chinese literatureIn the fictional Chinese town of Yong'an, monsters and spirits live, almost indistinguisably, alongside humans. Strange Beasts of China follows the narrator, an amateur cryptozoologist, as she attempts to document each type of bea...

The newest entry in the increasingly popular series collects fascinating and in-depth interviews with Bill Moyers, Nina Totenberg, and more, and conversations (with Antonin Scalia and high school students) from throughout the long, ground-breaking career of one of the greatest, most influential, and most exciting legal minds in American history.From her start in Depression-era New York, to her final days at the pinnacle of the American legal s...

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The inmate with a mop held back the inmate without a mop.Set mostly in Manhattan-although also featuring Atlantic City, Brooklyn, GMail Chat, and Gainsville, Florida-this autobiographical novella, spanning two years in the life of a young writer with a cultish following, has been described by the author as "A shoplifting book about vague relationships, " "2 parts shoplifting arrest, 5 parts vague relationship issues, " and "An ultimately life-...