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Cover art for THE DEVIL’S LARDER
FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2001

"As one Crace character puts it, "Life is uncertain. Eat the pudding first." Readers would be well advised not to bypass a morsel of this sumptuous fictional feast."
The award-winning British author of such inventive and memorable fiction as Quarantine (1997) and Being Dead (2000) enters new territory with this beguiling collection of 64 very short stories about what may as well be called the metaphysics of food. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE RED DEVIL
NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 22, 1999

"Read it and weep, and laugh aloud too."
Sharp and funny memoirs of a bright, tough woman fighting cancer and winning. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE DEVIL WE KNEW
NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 1993

"A provocative audit of an adversarial world order whose passing, in retrospect at least, seems to have been long overdue."
 A sophisticated interpretation of America's involvement in the cold war that appears calculated to draw fire from the left as well as right. Read full book review >