Fiction
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Robur the Conqueror [Hardback]
Jules; Edited by Evans Verne (Author); Arthur B. Evans (Editor); Alex Kirstukas (Author)
£28.00ISBN: 9780819577269
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Early Classics of Science Fiction
At the Weldon Institute in Philadelphia, a mob of zealous balloon enthusiasts plans to conquer the sky in a state-of-the-art dirigible. When a stranger, the mysterious Robur, declares that the future belongs not to balloons but to heavier-than-air... .... Learn More -
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Glen Pourciau (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9781935536895
Published by : Four Way Books
These new stories from Iowa Short Fiction Award–winner Pourciau reveal the day-to-day drama of various characters through their interior monologues. As readers become engaged in a character’s viewpoint and voice, they may begin to see the sto... .... Learn More
The Pittsburgh Stories of Willa Cather [Paperback]
Willa Cather (Author); Peter Oresick (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9780887486111
Published by : Carnegie Mellon University Press
Series: Mariana Brown Dietrich Notable Book Series
In these six stories, Willa Cather vividly captures the character of early 1900s Pittsburgh, a place she called home during her formative years as a writer. She depicts a city a where culture is beginning to take root, rising from the harsh indust... .... Learn More
The Pittsburgh Stories of Willa Cather [Hardback]
Willa Cather (Author); Peter Oresick (Author)
£24.00ISBN: 9780887486166
Published by : Carnegie Mellon University Press
Series: Mariana Brown Dietrich Notable Book Series
In these six stories, Willa Cather vividly captures the character of early 1900s Pittsburgh, a place she called home during her formative years as a writer. She depicts a city a where culture is beginning to take root, rising from the harsh indust... .... Learn More
Our Lives Became Unmanageable [Paperback]
Jackie Craven (Author)
£12.00ISBN: 9781632430274
Published by : Omnidawn Publishing
Series: The Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Prize
An advertising copywriter searches for her missing reflection. An artist tries to sculpt clouds. A businessman fades into the atmosphere while an old man drifts over rooftops, his gravity broken. Eleven narrative strands fragment and reform to wea... .... Learn More
The Exit Coach: Novella & Stories [Paperback]
Megan Staffel (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9781935536802
Published by : University Press of New England
How do we find the courage to change? In The Exit Coach, a collection of six stories and a novella, the characters arrive at an impasse that requires them to step out of the wreckage of their habituated lives. It is the entrance of an unexpected... .... Learn More
Monsters [Paperback]
Karen Brennan (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9781935536796
Published by : Four Way Books
Literal as well as metaphorical monsters inhabit this book of 38 innovative fictions. Here the reader will encounter not only zombies and ghosts, but a lyrical dream braided into a brutal and sorrowful real world. Monsters’ vision embodies the hea... .... Learn More
Feder [Paperback]
Nathanaël (Author)
£16.00ISBN: 9781937658564
Published by : Nightboat Books
With an English as ebullient as it is macabre, Nathanaël’s novel plunges its reader into a filmic world redolent of unsolved crime and suspicion. Part noir, part philosophical investigation, part literary subterfuge, Feder tenders image over evide... .... Learn More
Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction [Paperback]
Lisa Yaszek (Editor); Patrick B. Sharp (Editor)
£28.00ISBN: 9780819576248
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
For nearly half a century, feminist scholars, writers, and fans have successfully challenged the notion that science fiction is all about “boys and their toys,” pointing to authors such as Mary Shelley, Clare Winger Harris, and Judith Merril as pr... .... Learn More
Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction [Hardback]
Lisa Yaszek (Editor); Patrick B. Sharp (Editor)
£85.00ISBN: 9780819576231
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
For nearly half a century, feminist scholars, writers, and fans have successfully challenged the notion that science fiction is all about “boys and their toys,” pointing to authors such as Mary Shelley, Clare Winger Harris, and Judith Merril as pr... .... Learn More
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