Introduction by Gilbert Phelps. Lithographs by Edward Bawden. Rasselas, son of the King of Abyssinia (modern day Ethiopia), leaves his home in company with his sister, Nekayah, and a philosopher, Imlac, to discover the secret of a happy life. Read More...

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is a book by the historian Simon Schama. It was published in 1989, the bicentenary of the French Revolution, and like many other works in that year, was highly critical of its legacy. Read More...

Set of three books including The morte D'Arthur, Sir Tristram de Lyonesse, and The Tale of King Arthur. Read More...

Kinsey finds an old undelivered letter amid childhood memorabilia. It will force her to re-examine her beliefs about the break-up of her first marriage, about the honour of her first husband, about an old unsolved murder. And it will put her life in the gravest peril. 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...

On 26 April 1944, Generalmajor Karl Kreipe, commanding the German forces occupying Crete, was captured by Major Patrick Leigh-Fermor and was driven past 24 of his own guard posts. One of the finest true adventure stories of WW II. 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...