The first of a two-volume selection of short fiction from Portugal, drawing on late-19th and 20th-century novellas and stories. This text concentrates on writing from before World War II. Included is Eca de Queiros's "The Idiosyncrasies of a Young Blonde Woman".
An Inspector Bonaparte Mystery #2 featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal d
Why had Luke Marks driven specially out to Windee? Had he been murdered or had he, as the local police believed, wandered away from his car and been overwhelmed in a dust-storm? When Bony noticed something odd in the background of a police photograph, he begins to piece together the secrets of the sands of Windee.
First published in 1982, this is the "factless autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of the 72 literary personae or "heteronyms" with which Fernando Pessoa created the theatre of his absence. The circular text returns again and again to a protagonist desperate to find out who he is.
Gothic influences in criminal science, the detective and Doyle's Holmesi
Sensation novels are considered as the link between the Gothic genre and detective fiction. Del Grazia provides an exhaustive introduction to the creation of the character of Sherlock Holmes, and an examination of first instances of crime fiction - comparing the works of Gaboriau, Poe, Collins and Dickens.
This novel is set in Leiria, a provincial cathedral in which the hypocrisies of churchmen were not far to seek. Father Amaro, a young man like the author himself, with a priestly rather than a diplomatic vocation, falls into a relationship with a woman, and their tragic story unfolds.
This is an engrossing thriller about relationships with bar girls by a bestselling crime author. It is set in Thailand in 1996, the year of the Rat. Pete, a young travel writer, wanders into a Bangkok go-go bar and meets the love of his life. Joy is the girl of his dreams: young, stunningly pretty and one of the Zombie Bar's top earning pole ......
John Forbes, Robert Adamson, Nigel Roberts and Richard Tipping in an unpublished discussion of coming of age in the 'Generation of 68'. Also a commemoration of Dorothy Hewitt, including an interview by John Tranter. Also a forgotten hoax is brought to light in an essay by Tom Thompson.
A new edition of this Australian classic. An engaging story of profound love. Carefree physical love, born in fleeting pleasures and casual sex, tested by cruel adversity, deepening at every setback. The author of "Come in Spinner" writes of a 1940s Australia.
