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...

In San Fransisco int he mid 1960s, a cosmic blue light strikes people in its path, quickening their DNA, and greatly enhancing their strengths and understanding. They become the Blues, powerful yet vulnerable. This is their story. 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...

Los Angeles 1956. Young good-time girls are being murdered and savagely mutilated. And the police don't care - as long as they're black. When a white girl gets killed, the powers that be demand action... fast. Read More...

Engravings by John Lawrence. The reason Hickey's book has acquired classic status are that his really had been a 'strange and variegated life'. In addition, only part of it takes place in India or elsewhere abroad, while the rest is set in London at one of the most attractive and vibrant moments of its history. Read More...

Introduction by Tim Heald. Collection of short stories from the Strand magazine. Read More...