Best American Noir of the Century (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

Best American Noir of the Century (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

The Big Nowhere , LA Confidential and White Jazz. In his intoduction to The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, 'noir is the most scrutinised offshoot of the hard-boiled school of

LA Confidential - Classic Noir (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

One of the best (and longest) crime novels ever written, it is the heart of Ellroy's four-novel masterpiece, the LA Quartet, and an example of crime writing at its most

American Tabloid (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F Kennedy's

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (Updike John)(Paperback)

Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT

This Storm (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

Penguin Book of American Short Stories (Cochrane James)(Paperback / softback)

Includes twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over the last two hundred years that provide a multi-faceted portrait of a country, a people and the literature produced by this most exuberant of

L.A. Confidential (Ellroy James)(Pevná vazba)

L.A. Confidential is epic noir, a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law. And three lawmen are caught in a deadly spiral, a nightmare that tests

My Dark Places (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

America's greatest crime writer investigates his mother's murder. Shortly after the publication of his groundbreaking novel WHITE JAZZ, he determined to return to Los Angeles and, with the help of veteran detective Bill Stoner, attempt to solve the 38-year-old

Our Man - Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (Packer George)(Paperback / softback)

Valis, 1 (Dick Philip K.)(Paperback)

'Dick is one of the ten best American writers of the twentieth century, which is saying a lot. Dick was a kind of Kafka steeped in LSD and rage.'--Roberto Bolano What is VALIS? This question is at the heart of Philip K. Dick's ground-breaking novel, and the first book in his defining trilogy. When

Big Nowhere (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the fifties. New Year's Eve as 1949 turns to 1950, Los Angeles: The City of Angels has becomes the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the

Go Tell It on the Mountain (Baldwin James)(Paperback)

One of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention in this 'truly extraordinary' novel (Chicago Sun-Times).Baldwin's classic novel opened new possibilities in the American

Cold Six Thousand (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of public policy via Las Vegas, Howard Hughes, Vietnam, CIA dope dealing, Cuba, sleazy showbiz, racism and the Klan. This is the 1960s under Ellroy's blistering lens, the icons of the era mingled with cops, killers, hoods, and

Granta Book Of The American Short Story - V. 1 (Ford Richard)(Paperback / softback)

An anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century with stories by writers such as Eudora Welty, John Cheever and Raymond Carver (and forty others) demonstrating how much memorable power can lie in the briefest

Complete Stories (Capote Truman)(Paperback / softback)

A complete collection of short fiction by one of the masters of twentieth-century American

Pocket Book of Romantic Poetry (Authors Various)(Paperback / softback)

A compendium of the best poetry of the 19th-century British Romantic

Hilliker Curse - My Pursuit of Women (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. He hated and lusted for his mother and 'summoned her dead.' She was murdered three months

Clandestine (Ellroy James)(Paperback)

In James Ellroy's riveting second novel, an ambitious beat cop is hot on the trail of a serial killer who frequents L.A. dive bars and preys on the fallen women he finds there. Los Angeles, 1951. For Officer Fred Underhill, the job is all about the wonder, an elusive quality he finds while dealing

Perfidia (Ellroy James)(Paperback / softback)

Hideo Ashida is a brilliant police chemist and the only Japanese on the payroll. Four driven souls - rivals, lovers, history's pawns - thrown into an investigation which will not only rip them apart but take America to the edge of the abyss at a crucial moment in its

City of Night (Koontz Dean)(Paperback / softback)

The Frankenstein story is updated to the 21st century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz. Now someone new is playing

Double Helix (Watson Dr James)(Paperback / softback)

The story of the most significant biological breakthrough of the century - the discovery of the structure of

Brown's Requiem (Ellroy James)(Paperback)

Beneath the slick, glittering surface of L.A., an underworld of depravity and wickedness reins. Fritz Brown is a part-time private eye and full-time repo-man who gets his kicks listening to classical music. But the waters get too deep for Brown when he takes a case from a cash-flashing golf caddy

The Best American Essays of the Century (Oates Joyce Carol)(Paperback)

This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group of works that are both intimate and

Clearing (Gautreaux Tim)(Paperback / softback)

The novel that launched Tim Gautreaux internationally as one of the best contemporary American novelists - a gripping tale of courage, violence and moral choices set in 1920s