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Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize. Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But ... More

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A reluctant centenarian -- much like Forrest Gump if Gump were an explosives expert with a fondness for vodka -- decides it's not too late to start ... More

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In 1953, Dr. Wilson Spriggs gave Marylou Ahearn a radioactive cocktail without her consent as part of a secret government study that had horrible ... More

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For 50 years, from a summer afternoon of 1913 to the 1960s, an Anglo-Irish family, the Godwins, live through a cycle of passion, madness and death ... More

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Carol, a middle-aged wife and mother, is pondering the meaning of life. On a trip to the grocery store to find some energizing dark chocolate, she ... More

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Award-winning writer Paul Theroux explores the darker underside of the community of expatriates in South-East Asia in his compelling and strikingly ... More

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A search for Simon, the heir to a substantial inheritance, results in two claimants as well as a number of disappointed people. When one of the ... More

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"There are so few genuinely entertaining novels around that we ought to cheer whenever one turns up. Continuous, fizzing energy. . . .Honey for the ... More

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The story is that of disillusioned and stale Hollywood scriptwriter Gregory Dawson. A chance encounter in a Cornish hotel sends him back to the ... More

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Batten the hatches, don the life jackets, and take cover--Serge A. Storms is setting sail on a cruise ship to hell in this latest manic adventure ... More

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Guests are circulating in a haze of gin-rickies, blue movies, uppers, downers and inside-outers. Friday melts into Saturday, Saturday spirals into ... More

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The first Washington Square Press fiction original gives the poignant story of a boy coming of age in the Appalachian mountain town of Crum, West ... More

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Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he's also still in love with his ... More

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A novel in which a young man travels from his Midlands home to Oxford University, and finds himself out of his depth in its rarefied atmosphere.

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Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science - ... More

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"Don't Tell Alfred" is the wickedly funny sequel to Nancy Mitford's "The Pursuit of Love" and "Love in a Cold Climate". "I believe it would have been ... More

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The book behind the hugely successful film starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, Dev Patel, Penelope Wilton and Tom Wilkinson. ... More

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In a rural French village an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring ... More

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Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, "All About H. Hatterr" is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has ... More

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