Fiction: Special Features

The Year of the Short Corn was first published in 1949, and the war, or its immediate aftermath, forms a presence in most of the stories. It can be...

The stories in The Manet Girl explore sexual relations from both male and female points of view in the present, but sometimes with a backdrop of ...

Commissioned by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, these tales of dangerous women by the most stellar names in fiction are available for the fi...

True and fictional stories about the pioneering airmen and women who did not return from missions and the aircraft they flew in. The sky can be a d...

THE NOVELIST KILLS BY THE BOOK For Commandant Camille Verhven life is beautiful. He is happily married and soon to become a father. HE'S ALWAYS ON...

The Loverscollects Heads short fiction of the 1960s and 70s, written mainly in Serowe, Botswana, and depicting the lives and loves of African villa...

In this reissue of the author''s celebrated 1997 debut collection, we enter a world where the infatuation with death, ruin and destruction is total...

Edgar Allan Poe did not invent the tale of terror. There were American, English, and Continental writers who preceded Poe and influenced his work. ...

In this follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, expert Sherlockians Laurie King and Les Klinger put forth the question: What ...

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO IS BACK WITH A UK NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERLisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time.T...