The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
For Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings, and `it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning`. Picasso was there with `his high...
Blood. That’s what Martin Nanther’s great-grandfather Henry was interested in. As Queen Victoria’s favoured physician he became expert in diseases of the blood, particularly the royal disease of haemophilia. But, as...
Twenty wickedly anarchic tales from the master of the unpredictable, chosen from his bestsellers "Over to You", "Someone Like You", "Kiss Kiss" and "Switch Bitch". Stylish, outrageous and haunting, they explore the...
Chaucer\'s tales of his motley band of travellers on their pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas a Becket have become legendary and still represent, in John Dryden\'s words,"\'God\'s plenty". The Canterbury Tcdes,...
The classic Hugo-nominated series! No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt-toothed and blunt-fingered, Tully was the sole surviving member of his company-a...
