NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 13, 2011
"This engaging tale will leave many reaching for their Graham Greene."
An award-winning British journalist retraces the young novelist Graham Greene's 1935 walk through Sierra Leone and Liberia.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 16, 2010
"Hard-hitting reporting and fluent writing bring the utter devastation of the Great Recession to life--with John Cassidy's How Markets Fail (2009) an essential aid to understanding where all the money went, and who benefited."
A closely written account of the late financial meltdown, when, in the words of one analyst, "we went from a collective belief in soundness to a collective belief in insolvency."
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2007
"An endlessly entertaining follow-up to actor/author Gatiss's The Vesuvius Club (2005). Punning titles and a sprinkling of pen-and-ink illustrations add appeal."
Sexually rapacious Lucifer Box tosses off bon mots while battling fanatical fascists in this 1920s romp.
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 2005
"Served up with explicit gore that is not for the faint-hearted, but even more haunting than it is shocking as the author urgently addresses basic, agonizing existential issues."
A superb third thriller from Hayder (
The Treatment, 2001, etc.), who sends a troubled young Englishwoman to Tokyo in search of evidence about a half-century-old war crime.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 23, 2004
"What's gained here is the pleasure of watching exemplary reporting illuminate a fascinating crossroads of American popular art and commerce."
On the hundredth anniversary of the naming of Times Square, journalist Traub (
City on a Hill, 1994, etc.) traces the colorful history of America's premier theater district and appraises its most recent makeover by Disney and other global corporate brands.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2003
"Gripping drama, captured with a reporter's nose for a good story and a novelist's flair for telling it. (6 b&w photos, 1 map, not seen)"
A vivid account of the tragedies and triumphs of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and the concurrent depravities of America's first serial killer.
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