The Ultimate Intimacy

‘suspense fiction of the highest order, The Ultimate Intimacy belongs on the shelf beside Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair. It is a compelling examination of the different kinds…

Mr. Darwin’s Shooter

“Earthy, economical prose . . . wisdom and subtle understanding . . . Evolution, as Mr. Darwin’s Shooter demonstrates, is driven by forces more nuanced and mysterious than the crude…

Ambient

“Fascinating and well written . . . wonderfully inventive.” –The New York Times Book Review…

The Monk

“The Monk is one of the authentic prodigies of English fiction, a book in spite of its various crudenesses so good that even after a century and a half it…

Nell Gwyn

“A lively portrait of his famous forebears, along with an account of the theater of the time and the surprisingly parallel worlds of prostitutes and royal mistresses.” –Publishers Weekly…

The Unvanquished

From the bestselling author of The Indispensables, the unknown and dramatic story of irregular guerrilla warfare that altered the course of the Civil War and inspired the origins of America’s…

Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, 1851-1852

The World Beneath

“Written in precise and singing prose, [Kennedy’s] powerful first novel . . . [is] a work of mythic depth, lyrical description, and gripping suspense.” —Adelaide Advertiser…

Disjecta

“[Beckett] is a serious writer with something serious to say about the human condition: and therefore one of the dozen or so writers those who are concerned with modern man…

The Devil Tree

“Savage . . . [Whalen is] a foolproof, timeless American character. . . . Each horrid, magical episode . . . releases, between the lines, unspoken words about the nature…