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"The Tanners is a contender for Funniest Book of the Year." —

Robert Walser — admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, and Walter Benjamin — is a radiantly original author. He has been acclaimed “unforgettable, heart-rending” (J.M. Coetzee), “a bewitched genius” (Newsweek), and “a major, truly wonderful, heart-breaking writer” (Susan Sontag). Considering Walser’s “perfect and serene oddity,” Michael Hofmann in remarked on the “Buster Keaton-like indomitably sad cheerfulness [that is] most hilariously disturbing.” called him “the dreamy confectionary snowflake of German language fiction. He also might be the single most underrated writer of the 20th century….The gait of his language is quieter than a kitten’s.”

“A clairvoyant of the small” W. G. Sebald calls Robert Walser, one of his favorite writers in the world, in his acutely beautiful, personal, and long introduction, studded with his signature use of photographs.

A Schoolboy’s Diary

It’s two months after the end of Shattered, and Lia is right back where she started: home, pretending to be the perfect daughter. But nothing’s the way it used to be. Lia has become the public face of the mechs, BioMax’s poster girl for the up-and-coming technology, devoting her life to convincing the world that she—and the others like her—deserve to exist. Then Jude resurfaces, and brings some scandalous information with him. Is BioMax really an ally to the mechs? Or are they using the technology for a great evil… and if so, can Auden really be a part of the plan? Meanwhile, Lia also learns a shocking truth about the accident that resulted in her download… a truth that forces her to make a decision she can never reverse.

Following the events of , Lia has adjusted to downloading her brain and living in a synthetic body. But fleeing her organic family to live on a compound with other mechs has its downsides. Especially when she realizes that her mech friend Jude is dangerously devoted to a cause Lia has begun to doubt. How many people—mechanical and organic—is she willing to hurt to protect her freedom? How far is she willing to go to protect the people she loves? And, when she decides to betray Jude, how will he take his revenge?

It’s two months after the end of Shattered, and Lia is right back where she started: home, pretending to be the perfect daughter. But nothing’s the way it used to be. Lia has become the public face of the mechs, BioMax’s poster girl for the up-and-coming technology, devoting her life to convincing the world that she—and the others like her—deserve to exist. Then Jude resurfaces, and brings some scandalous information with him. Is BioMax really an ally to the mechs? Or are they using the technology for a great evil… and if so, can Auden really be a part of the plan? Meanwhile, Lia also learns a shocking truth about the accident that resulted in her download… a truth that forces her to make a decision she can never reverse.

Welcome to the Prospero Keys (or as the locals call them: the Ghost Keys), a beautiful chain of tropical islands on the edge of the Bermuda Triangle. Rain Cacique is water-skiing with her two best friends Charlie and Miranda when Rain sees her father waiting for her at the dock. Sebastian Bohique, her maternal grandfather, has passed away. He was the only person who ever made Rain feel special. The only one who believed she could do something important with her life. The only thing she has left to remember him by is the armband he used to wear: two gold snakes intertwined, clasping each other’s tails in their mouths. Only the armband… and the gift it brings: Rain can see dead people. Starting with the Dark Man: a ghost determined to reveal the Ghost Keys’ hidden world of mystery and mysticism, intrigue and adventure.

Every secret has a price.

For most girls, sleepaway camp is great fun. But for Amy Becker, it’s a nightmare. Amy, whose home life is in turmoil, is sent to Camp Takawanda for Girls for the first time as a teenager. Although Amy swears she hates her German-immigrant mother, who is unduly harsh with Amy’s autistic younger brother, Amy is less than thrilled about going to camp. At Takawanda she is subjected to a humiliating “initiation” and relentless bullying by the ringleader of the senior campers. As she struggles to stop the mean girls from tormenting her, Amy becomes more confident. Then a cousin reveals dark secrets about Amy’s mother’s past, which sets in motion a tragic event that changes Amy and her family forever.

‘I’m a good person inside, but when I get drunk, I just don't know. It's just… when I get drunk, don’t mess the fuck with me…’ There have been few female serial killers but Aileen ‘Lee’ Wuornos was an incredible example of this rare species of death-row inhabitants.

All-too-often female prostitutes have been the victims of male serial killers – the killings of Aileen ‘Lee’ Wuornos were the inverse of this. She was a child prostitute, fleeing an abusive childhood at the hands of her grandparents, which led straight into a disastrous adulthood of difficult affairs with both men and women. Her metamorphosis from victim to attacker had brutal consequences: a stream of dead men.

Following a renewed interest in this woman after the film ‘Monster’, this is her story in her own words.

NB The cover is entitled .

They’d love to have you for dinner…

Sasha Savage is in love with Jack – a handsome, charming… vegetarian. Which wouldn’t be a problem if it weren’t for the fact that Sasha’s family are very much ‘carnivorous’. Behind the family facade all is not as it seems. Sasha’s father rules his clan with an iron fist and her mother’s culinary skills are getting more adventurous by the day. When a too-curious private detective starts to dig for truths, the tight-knit family starts to unravel – as does their sinister taste in human beings…

Devenu licteur de Thrace, Sévérian semble avoir trouvé l'équilibre qui lui manquait depuis son départ de Nessus. Pourtant, de mystérieuses créatures sont toujours à ses trousses et nombre de ses questions restent posées. Le bourreau en trouvera-t-il les réponses dans le lointain passé de Teur ? Et quel rôle joue réellement la Griffe du Conciliateur ? La quête de Sévérian va prendre un tournant décisif, pour son propre avenir et celui de la planète entière.<

Alors que sa quête touche à sa fin, Sévérian se trouve pris au beau milieu des combats contre les rebelles asciens. Sévèrement blessé, il est contraint de se reposer et profite des récits narrés par ses compagnons d'infortune pour faire le point sur le chemin parcouru depuis son départ de la tour Matachine. Bientôt, la citadelle de l'Autarque sera en vue et nombre de secrets seront enfin dévoilés.<

Voici Sévérian, devenu Autarque de l’Empire, en route pour Yesod où l’attend le tribunal de Tzadkiel, chargé de le juger et de juger Teur : une épreuve dont il doit triompher pour ramener le Nouveau Soleil, la Fontaine Blanche seule capable de ranimer le Vieux Soleil agonisant. Mais sera-t-il seulement en mesure de se présenter à cette épreuve ?

Dans cette première partie de la coda imaginée par Gene Wolfe pour couronner son , Sévérian, simple passager d’un voilier stellaire géant, formant un monde à lui tout seul, devra d’abord affronter les avatars déroutants de mystérieux assassin à la solde de ceux qui ne veulent pas du Nouveau Soleil...

Après bien des péripéties, voici Sévérian de retour sur Teur. Un Sévérian métamorphosé, fort de pouvoirs quasi divins et entraînant dans son sillage la Fontaine Blanche — cet objet astronomique qui est l’exact opposé d’un trou noir, un jaillissement de matière né de la semande de l’Autarque.

Mais cela suffira-t-il à redonner vie à Teur et à son soleil moribond ?

Dans cette deuxième et dernière partie de la coda imaginée par Gene Wolfe pour couronner son , Sévérian sera le moteur de bouleversements cosmiques — un nouveau Déluge, une plongée dantesque dans les Corridors du Temps — qui, ultime révélation, lui apprendront que les sauveurs des mondes sont forcés d’en être aussi les sacrificateurs.

No publicity, no media. We move in silently, do our job, and melt away into the background. If you have the stamina, the willpower and the guts, we’ll welcome you with open arms and you one of us. And if you haven’t, then it’s been very nice knowing you.

Eighteen years in the SAS saw Pete Winner, codenamed Soldier ‘I’, survive the savage battle of Mirbat, parachute into the icy depths of the South Atlantic at the height of the Falklands War, and storm the Iranian Embassy during the most famous hostage crisis in the modern world.

For the first time Pete also details his close-protection work around the world, from the lawless streets of Moscow to escorting aid convoys into war-torn Bosnia. He also unveils the problems of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder faced by many Special Forces veterans, and how he battled his own demons to continue his roller-coaster career. This is his story, written with a breathtaking take-no-prisoners attitude that brings each death-defying episode vividly to life.

Time is running out for humanity to defeat the encroaching forces of the . As settlements fall and the Great Blight spreads, it falls on the New Angels to unite disparate factions before it is too late.

But the dark Xenomind, Askala, has plans to end humanity before that can ever happen, and only the greatest sacrifice can stop her from achieving her aims…

This is a dark age, a bloody age, an age of daemons and of sorcery. It is an age of battle and death and of the world’s ending. Amidst all of the fire, flame and fury it is a time, too, of mighty heroes, of bold deeds and great courage.

At the heart of the Old World sprawls the Empire, the largest and most powerful of the human realms. Known for its engineers, sorcerers, traders and soldiers, it is a land of great mountains, mighty rivers, dark forests and vast cities. And from his throne in Altdorf reigns the Emperor Karl-Franz, sacred descendant of the founder of these lands, Sigmar, and wielder of his magical warhammer.

But these are far from civilised times. Across the length and breadth of the Old World, from the knightly palaces of Bretonnia to ice-bound Kislev in the far north, come rumblings of war. In the towering Worlds Edge Mountains, the orc tribes are gathering for another assault. Bandits and renegades harry the wild southern lands of the Border Princes. There are rumours of rat-things, the skaven, emerging from the sewers and swamps across the land. And from the northern wildernesses there is the ever-present threat of Chaos, of daemons and beastmen corrupted by the foul powers of the Dark Cods. As the time of battle draws ever nearer, the Empire needs heroes like never before.

Sleepwalking with the Bomb