The Corner Men

JOHN GARDNER

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Arrow Books

Mickelsson's Ghosts (Arena Books)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Arrow Bks.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. New Directions is excited to reissue the Gardner classics, beginning with October Light, a complex relationship rendered in a down-to-earth narrative.October Light is one of John Gardner's masterworks. The penniless widow of a once-wealthy dentist, Sally Abbot now lives in the Vermont farmhouse of her older brother, 72-year-old James Page. Polar opposites in nearly every way, their clash of values turns a bitter corner when the exacting and resolute James takes a shotgun to his sister's color television set. After he locks Sally up in her room with the trashy "blockbuster" novel that has consumed her (and only apples to eat), the novel-within-the-novel becomes an echo chamber providing glimpses into the history of the family that spawned these bizarre, sad, and stubborn people. Gardner uses the turbulent siblings as a stepping-off point from which he expands upon the lives of their extended families, and the rural community that surrounds them. He also engages larger issues of how liberals and conservatives define themselves, and considers those moments when life transcends all their arguments.

October Light (Arena Books)

Contemporary

Arrow

<p>A thorough exposition of the general elements of music precedes essays on virtually every form of classical music, from extinct instruments and ancient vocal patterns through the immense variety of music available today</p>

The Musical Companion

Arts & Photography

Robert Layton

David Atherton

Alan Blyth

Hugo Cole

Roger North

charles-osborne

john-mccabe

Music

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/Victor Gollancz

Nickel Mountain

JONATHAN CAPE.

Your College Experience Strategies for Success Custom Columbus State University

bedford

Your College Experience Strategies for Success Custom St Philip's College

Thrillers & Suspense

<p>1st Pan edition paperback fine condition. In stock shipped from our UK warehouse</p>

Moriarty

Pan Books

The airline pirates: A new Boysie Oakes adventure

Coronet Books

The final desperate hours of the Third Reich.  Adolf Hitler emerges from his bunker and singles out for special decoration one of the uniformed boys who were the last defenders of Berlin…   In 1977, Hitler’s ‘last hope’ is now a respectable British businessman, suspected by British Intelligence of being the key to a Nazi revival.   Vincent Cooling is coerced into investigating, and discovers that the man code-named ‘Werewolf’ has now moved into a house in his mother’s sleepy village – a house that, according to local gossip, was the site of a grisly death several years before.   Cooling soon discovers that ‘Werewolf’ is haunted by his past, and his family are beginning to believe themselves haunted by something far more terrifying…   Was a boy smuggled out of the Führer’s bunker?   What did he grow into?   And what kind of political threat does he pose?   Part historical fiction, part psychological thriller, 'The Werewolf Trace' is a story of a nightmare that would never die.   Praise for John Gardner:   ‘A master storyteller at the height of his power’ - Len Deighton   Before coming an author of fiction in the early 1960’s John Gardner was variously a stage magician, a Royal Marine officer and a journalist. In all Gardner has fifty-four novels to his credit, including Maestro, which was the New York Times book of the year. He was also invited by Ian Fleming’s literary copyright holders to write a series of continuation James Bond novels, which proved to be so successful that instead of the contracted three books he went on to publish some fourteen titles, including Licence Renewed and Icebreaker. Having lived in the Republic of Ireland, the United States and the UK, John Gardner sadly died in August of 2007 having just completed his third novel in the Moriarty trilogy, Conan Doyle’s eponymous villain of the Sherlock Holmes series.   Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.

The Werewolf Trace

Hodder&Stoughton

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