Literature - Fiction

As Soon As It Rains hails the debut of Kaylie Jones, talented daughter of one of Americas foremost writers, James Jones. In this, her first novel: Chloe Raymond is painfully - and often self-destructively - trying to forget the death of her father at a time when she is not a child and yet not quite grown up. She embarks on a journey of discovery that will lead her beyond the adolescent sphere of boys and...

Mr. Maddocks story starts dramatically with the torpedoing of a Spanish-bound ship. The passengers are rescued by a destroyer and taken to Gibralter, the centre of much activity, as Spain is on the eve of joining the Axis powers. In this topical thriller Mr. Maddock makes full use of his Mediterranean background. Title:   Date with a Spy Author:  Stephen Maddock, Pseudonym of J. M. Walsh Copyright:   1943...

This quietly devastating novel dramatizes the plight of an Organization Man, who, after 10 years of docile commutation between his fashionable suburban home, and his well-paying job with Tower Mutual Life, suddenly rebels. Abe Rogoff is jolted out of his complacent, comfortable pattern of existence by the suicide of his best friend, who was also his immediate superior in Tower Mutual. It is Abe's secret...

Letter from Peking is a tender and suspenseful story of love in a world split apart, love struggling against the barriers of race, politics, distance, and misunderstanding. The time is today, the setting Vermont with flashbacks to China. The protagonist, is an American woman whose husband Gerald - half Chinese has elected to stay in Peking under communism while she returns to live in America. A counterpoint...

Strange Adventures Of The Sea A book of murders, maroonings, treasure-hunts, piracies, mutinies and tales of horror on the high seas. By J.G. Lockhart. Philip Allan & Co, London. Made and printed in Great Britain. First published in 1925. A first edition. Includes frontispiece and numerous b/w illustrations. Contains list of illustrations. Hardcover, burgundy cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine....