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There will never be another Western writer like Louis L’Amour. A legendary author and indisputably the greatest storyteller in his genre of all time, L’Amour captivated millions of readers and has sold well over three hundred million copies of his works, which includes nearly ninety novels and countless short stories. Mistakes Can Kill You highlights an essential selection featuring nine of L’Amour’s earlier short stories, sometimes written under the pen name Jim Mayo, that exemplify the rugged morality of the best Western writing.

The Last Kingdom is one of the most successful historical fiction series of our time, telling the epic story of the birth of England, and introducing one of the greatest ever fictional heroes: the iconic Uhtred of Bebbanburg. Saxon-born, Norse-raised, warrior and rebel. The final Last Kingdom book was published in 2020, but for the author the story felt unfinished: there were some Uhtred tales he still wanted to tell, and over the course of writing the books he'd become fascinated by some elements of the Anglo-Saxon world that it wasn't possible to fully explore in the novels.

Jack Roberts is back from the Sudan and with a crippling wound, no longer an active soldier. When he is sent to Iran to help find oil for British battleships he has to leave home once more. This time he leaves a son who is about to embark on a military career too. The Roberts family is soon going to war again.

Whatever happened to British protest? For a nation that brought the world Chartism, the Suffragettes, the Tolpuddle Martyrs and so many other grassroots social movements, Britain rarely celebrates its long, great tradition of people power. In this timely and evocative collection, 20 authors have assembled to reimagine key moments of British protest, from the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 to the anti-Iraq War demo of 2003.

A blind man spends his days roaming the beaches of Kenya collecting shells, classifying them by feeling their whorls, spines and folds in his fingers. A young woman discovers that she can explore the inner world of an animal's mind by touching its freshly dead body. A refugee from Liberia, who cannot escape the horrors that he has witnessed, finds salvation in the clandestine act of burying the hearts of beached whales.

The SideRoad Kids follows a group of boys and girls as they enter the sixth grade in a small town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula during 1957-58. This meandering collection of loosely-connected short stories is often humorous, poignant, and sometimes mysterious. Laugh as the kids argue over Halloween treats handed out in Brimley. Recall Dorothy's Hamburgers in Sault Ste. Marie.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Private Joseph Caan, a young Jewish soldier stationed in Germany, seeks the truth about lost family members; in the 1960s a father focuses on his daughter’s wedding even as the Cuban Missile Crisis brings the world to the brink of disaster; in 2001, while planes fly into the Twin Towers, a maid working for US Embassy staff in London wonders if her birth on the day of the Kennedy assassination shaped her life.

June Tremblay is struggling to find herself as a painter when she accepts a summer job as assistant to renowned artist Hiram Lammergeier on his private island off the Maine coast. The reclusive legend has one peculiar rule: under no circumstances is June to create any art of her own. Caught between her need to paint and her desire for Lammergeier, June rebels, and her transgression sets off a chain of retaliation that will shape the rest of her life.

Spring, 1918. The Great War is at a crucial stage, the Germans are making one last push into France, and the Allies are struggling to hold them back. Battle lines are shifting, and men, and their machines, are being sent up and down the front to shore up defenses. Major Heathcliff Lennox, and his batman Greggs, are told to report to their new HQ. They set off on a sunlit day to fly the distance, but the enemy is never far away, and disaster strikes. They're sent crashing to the ground behind enemy lines, where life, death, and love await.

Singer's famous and never-before-recorded novel about a passionate, forbidden love affair between Jew and Gentile in 17th century Poland.

This is the story of The Cursed Galleon, a strange artifact kept at the oldest pub in England. A swashbuckling adventure story of mystery, love and tragedy.

A young woman’s night-time escapade goes eerily wrong. A man is forced to relive the horrible accident that tore his family apart over and over again. An underground thrill through ancient catacombs proves disastrously horrific. A young boy is haunted by the scarecrow in the fields behind his home. And a woman is revisited by the ghost of a psychotic killer in the most dreadful of ways. Scare Street brings you some of the best short horror stories by authors Ron Ripley, David Longhorn, Eric Whittle, Sara Clancy, and A. I. Nasser, all in one book.

Exploring the creative process of an American original, the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series will uncover the hidden history behind the author’s best known novels...and his most mysterious and ambitious unfinished works. In this second volume, Beau L’Amour examines how his father made the transition from struggling pulp writer to successful novelist and uses his father’s notes, journal entries, and correspondence to continue the process of seeking out how and why many of these never-before-seen manuscripts were written.

In this prequel to the exciting Prohibition-era Galliano Club historical fiction thriller series, go on the road with three unforgettable characters and experience their timeless tales of risk, determination, and danger during the Roaring Twenties.

Nur and Abid relearn to love after they escape from war. Marie, who keeps the women of the village from giving birth to children borne of war, finds herself in a situation she hasn't faced before. In a London park, an ageing MI-6 official discovers that the woman he meets every day may not be what she seems. Lyndsey's bouquets of twenty-seven tulips hold the secret of her dark past and a soldier adorns herself in jewels as she prepares for a final mission.

Issız bir tepenin yamacında tek başına duran çam ağacının gövdesine dolanan yılan mı daha gerçek, yoksa yazarın düşleri mi? Sait Faik’in son dönem öykü kitabı Alemdağ’da Var Bir Yılan, görünürde basit—ama altı çalkantılı—insan hikâyelerini, uykuyla uyanıklık arasındaki ince çizgide dolaştırır. Burada balıkçıların, kahve müdavimlerinin, sokak kedilerinin yanı sıra, rüyalarını anlatıp kaybolan çocuklar, kendini bir ağacın yerine koyan anlatıcılar, yılanla göz göze gelen gezginler vardır.

Sokak lambalarının sönük ışığında, kahveci çırağının camı silerken yaptığı hareket kadar sıradan; ama bir o kadar da derin öykülerle dolu bir kitap elinizde: Mahalle Kahvesi. Sait Faik, bu kitabında büyük hikâyelerin peşine düşmez. Onun dünyası, köşe başındaki manavda bekleyen yaşlı adamın gözlerinde, denize bakarken sigarasını söndüren bir gencin iç geçirişinde saklıdır. Bir fincan kahveyle başlayan cümleler, bizi insanın en sade, en kırılgan hâline götürür.

İstanbul’un unutulmuş kuytularında yankılanan martı çığlıkları ve rıhtımda ağır ağır sürüklenen dalgalar…

Sarnıç, Sait Faik’in ilk öykü kitabı olmasına karşın, yazarın benzersiz anlatı evrenine açılan bir baş kapı niteliğinde. Ada balıkçılarından meyhanedeki kırgın kalplere, yoksul hamalların ter kokusundan Boğaz’ın serin esintisine uzanan bu öyküler, gündelik seslerin içinden bir şiir devşirir.

Sait Faik’in ilk öykü kitabı olan Semaver, 1930’ların İstanbul’undan küçük kesitler sunar. Fakat bunlar, ansiklopedik bir şehrin resmi değil; iskelede balık temizleyen bir adamın elleri, yağmurdan sığınan çocukların titrek kahkahası, gece yarısı fener ışığında sallanan bir sandal gibidir. Yazar, sokağın sıradan seslerini alır, onlara unutulmaz bir tını kazandırır. Bu öykülerde kahraman yoktur, zafer yoktur—ama insanın kalbine dokunan o küçücük anlar vardır. Bir çayın telvesinde görülen geleceğin telaşı…

Memduh Şevket Esendal, incecik bir hikâyede koca bir insanlık hâlini yakalıyor. Otlakçı, adını bilmediğimiz ama pek çoğumuzun hemen tanıyacağı bir karakterin peşine düşüyor: cebi sık sık delik, gönlü her daim “başkasının bıyık altı pamuğunda” gezinen sigara avcısı… Kahvehanelerde, tren kompartımanlarında, rıhtımın serin gecelerinde türlü bahanelerle bitmek bilmez bir tüttürme kampanyası yürütüyor; üstelik kendince makul gerekçeler bulmayı da ihmal etmiyor.