Christie, largely with her character Hercule Poirot, heralds the Golden Age of the detective novel and carves out a genre and chapter of European history whose focus is the problem of evil.

Precociously brilliant in his youth, Cyril Connolly was haunted for the rest of his life by a sense of failure and a romatic yearning to recover a lost Eden.

Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.

On board a research vessel in the Pacific, expert tracker Mark Hawkins is trapped on a tropical island with the crew and uncovers evidence of the island's history as the site of a brutal World War II human experimentation program.

Treglown deftly navigates Dahl’s time as a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force, exploring how the experience transformed many of the beliefs that influenced the English writer’s work, including The Gremlins, which was commissioned by ...

The illustrations in this volume include rarely seen drawings from Kafka's workbooks, images of the Prague environment that inspired his nightmarish modernist masterpieces, photos of Kafka with friends and colleagues, and reproductions of ...

Volume III The Japanese War 1941–1945 Jeremy Black. 66. Entries for 29 July 1942 in the deck logs of the Fuller ... in author's collection . 87. Paul Bohrer to author , telephone call , 21 September 1999. Evidently a report that ...

In a leafy square on Paris's Left Bank, a young writer finds a home and an unlikely mentor among the shelves of a legendary bookshop.

Jeremy Black. B.Goldgar Walpole and the Wits : The Relation of Politics to Literature , 1722–1742 ( Lincoln ... in Author / Publisher Relations during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries , ed . R.Myers and M.Harris ( Oxford ...