The reader, in the role of King Random of Amber, must find his missing brothers to keep Amber's magic from failing, and the only clues to the princes' whereabouts are a set of paintings that mysteriously draw viewers into them...
When Maximov-the-Drinker collapses on his settee after a five-day binge, visions of his first love and glimpses of life as it once was, and can never be again, flood his mind. A horrible sense of sadness and regret overwhelms him--he has wasted his y...
Turgenovsky is a second-rate writer whose literary aspirations far outweigh his talents. When arrested with student friends, he is drawn into revolutionary circles more through chance than conviction, having an unwitting impact on the earth-shatterin...
A troubled single mother goes missing. A highly unusual sexually-transmitted infection spreads around a small town. Two bodies wash up on a beach.
Are these seemingly unrelated events connected to a government plot to eliminate undesirable me...
The Nine Lives of Jacob Fallada is the story of an outsider, a lonely, misunderstood young artist who chronicles all the unpleasant things that happen to him in life. Abandoned by his parents, brought up be a tyrannical aunt, bullied at school, o...
There's no such thing as a feeling... A therapist starts to see worrying parallels between his own personal life and that of his new client - an ex-porn star struggling to come to terms with fatherhood, a man whose sexual odyssey turned into a nightm...
With Randall, the jury is still out. Tales of his own life are as strange as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Randall is a legend in his own front room, a holy drinker…tender, belligerent, a contradiction…these fifteen exceptional, highly ...