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Charles Farrell made his living working Mob clubs from the time he was a teenager in the 1960s. He later moved from music to the complex world of professional boxing, …

A new collection of Bob Dylan’s most essential lyrics, perhaps the most important songwriter of the twentieth century and the first musician in history to win the Nobel Prize for …

With 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his vigorous and sweeping panorama of twentieth-century America. It was lauded on publication not only for its …

Trapped in a small, poverty-ridden town in 1933, seventeen-year-old Dominic Molise yearns to fulfil his own dreams of becoming an American sports hero. This teenage southpaw aspires to the big …

Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs presents the full spectrum of Adams’ work in a single volume for the first time, offering the largest available compilation from his legendary photographic career. Beautifully produced …

Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs presents the full spectrum of Adams’ work in a single volume for the first time, offering the largest available compilation from his legendary photographic career. Beautifully produced …

Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, vividly reflects on her public and private life in this stunning memoir. With richness and delicacy, it describes the sophisticated New …

This classic novel and winner of the Pulitzer Prize tells the story of an Italian-American major in World War II who wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople …

Winner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our spirit. Lorde announces the need …

“The only four things that interested me were: reading books, going to the movies, tap-dancing and drawing pictures. Then one day I started writing…” Truman Capote began writing at the age …

Tender and bittersweet, these stories are a captivating tribute to the Christmas season. Selected from across Capote’s writing life, they range from nostalgic portraits of childhood to more unsettling works …

“My favourite book of all time… it stays with you long after you have read it – for your whole life, in fact,” said Billy Connolly. A monument to sloth, …

Jesse and Lee share a house owned by a very nice Chinese dentist, where it rains in the hall. They move to cabins on the cliffs at Big Sur where …

A brilliant and ambitious woman is eager to establish her career as a doctor but is forced to choose between her occupation and married life. This timely tale presents an internal …

From the subway ride to the ballpark, through batting practice and warm-ups, to the game-winning home run, A Day in the Bleachers describes inning by inning the strategies, heroics, and …

Published in 1957, two years after its author’s death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobiographical novel that contains one of …

This novel was published in 1954 and won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches …

In 1918, Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experience came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway’s description of …

Mailer’s superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon – “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” A Fire on …

This novel by Gene Stratton-Porter. An immediate bestseller, A Girl of the Limberlost – her fourth novel – established Stratton-Porter’s reputation as a leading naturalist and writer of the American Midwest. Written …