Short Century

Throughout a long career as a special and foreign correspondent for major Italian publications and the state-owned broadcaster RAI, Marco Lupis has been up close and personal with many of the people who have shaped the world as we know it. In this book, Lupis recalls the most important interviews of his career, not only with brave men and women who dedicated their lives to fighting injustice and abuse of power, but also with some of the biggest names of the modern era.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this Century of profound change for women our Atlantic neighbours produced authors of extraordinary ability that dazzled us all with a range of ideas, characters and stories of such magnificence that literature would never be the same again. Genius is written in their names.

In The Italian Quartet, Sara Marcello, a writer with roots in Italy, is invited to the island villa of Ugo and Olivia Bellini, two wealthy and worldly antiquarians. In this place of myth, belonging as much to Homer and Prospero as to the present, Sara discovers that she is at the center of...

Prepare to lose yourself in a monumental archive of the senses. A Century of Forbidden Erotica is not a historical retrospective, but a massive, powerhouse collection of 100 distinct stories designed to push the limits of your imagination. This is a "century" in the truest sense of the word: a...

From the award-winning author of Dearborn, a tragicomic story collection that moves between Lebanon and Michigan, exploring migration, war, family, and the enduring pull of home. In a village haunted by unexploded cluster bombs, a chorus of matriarchs obsess over a poet-turned-mayor who...

Selected stories & observations from the great American writer & Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike John Updike was one of the greatest American writers of his generation. In a career spanning half a century, he wrote over 50 books chronicling middle-class white America in the postwar...

Paste Jewels is a collection of humorous short stories following the Perkins family — particularly newlyweds Thaddeus and Bessie — as they navigate the comic trials of managing a household and domestic staff in late 19th-century America. The book's seven tales include "The Emancipation of...

There is a sequestered glen off the east coast of the Hudson, New York state, which has long continued under the sway of some witching power; the neighbourhood abounds with tales, haunted spots and twilight superstitions. But as hapless schoolmaster Ichabod Crane will discover, the wildest of...