It began as a sudden strange fancy... Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time ... And now she's enlisted in the army, and is searching for her lost brother. Read More...

Tiffany Aching put one foot wrong, made one little mistake...And now the spirit of winter is in love with her. He gives her roses and icebergs, says it with avalanches and showers her with snowflakes - which is tough when you're thirteen, but also just a little bit...cool. Read More...

A unique collection of stories about the mad, the bad and the truly dangerous to know, from more than two hundred years of sporting shooting. They include mad old colonels who took their trousers off before going elephant hunting, woman poachers with terriers sewn into their underskirts, and duck shooters chasing their quarry in helicopters. Read More...

Police lieutenant Claude LaPointe's normally turbulent existence is exploded by a grotesque murder in the Main. A flashy young Italian has been found on his knees, stabbed to death in a back alley. LaPointe's investigation leads him to pimps, prostitutes, hustlers, winos, and thieves, but not to a prompt solution. Read More...

It's 1963. Easy Rawlins has given up the street life that has brought him so much trouble and grief. He's taken on a job as supervising custodian of Sojourner Truth Junior High School in Watts. For two years he'd been getting up early and going off to work. He wears nice clothes and puts all his energy - and love - into his job and his adopted children. Easy likes his new life, even though he feels empty and a little bored sometimes, but all that is about the change. Read More...

1953 and there's a cold wind blowing across America. Even in LA, Easy Rawlins is feeling the chill, with the tax man at his door... the only way to make some luck is undercover work for the IRS. Until one of his targets winds up dead and the fingers are pointing at Easy... Read More...

The summer of '48 in the City of Angels and there's heat on the streets and in the ghettos of LA when Daphne Monet hits the sidewalks. Heat when she disappears with a truckload of someone else's cash. Read More...

A novel about the blues - the blues as an expression of black poetry and black tragedy and how they sit in judgement on the American experience. In contemporary New York, aging bluesman Soupspoon Wise is dying. Read More...

Five Years have passed since the White Butterfly affair: there's Kennedy in the White House and Martin Luther King is in the news. And then, sure enough, trouble comes knocking again at Easy's door... Read More...

Five Years have passed since the White Butterfly affair: there's Kennedy in the White House and Martin Luther King is in the news. And then, sure enough, trouble comes knocking again at Easy's door... Read More...