Edwin Gilbert | The Hot And The Cool | The world of new jazz has its dedicated in Kip Nelson and the boys of his unit which is not so highly thought of by their leader, Wade Stuart, a snob
Françoise Mallet-Joris | The Red Room | The sequel to this Flemish writer’s earlier The Illusions (sp) (1952) continues the conflict between young Helene and Tamara, now her step-mother for
Kay Boyle | Monday Night | Unfathomable horror broods over this story in which two Americans become involved in the search for one man: a toxicologist who has been connected wit
Leonard Bishop | Creep Into Thy Narrow Bed | A novel about the men and women caught in one of America’s most brutal underworlds – the abortion racket. At the center is Adam Michaels, a talented a
Denis Diderot | Memoirs Of A Nun | Memoirs of a Nun, which began as a joke and grew into a masterpiece, was one of the loudest salvos fired in the continuing battles between the clergy
Vance Bourjaily | The Violated | The lives of four Americans born between the world wars are intertwined to devastating effect in this gripping novel from one of the 20th century’s mo
Vance Bourjaily | The End Of My Life | When Thomas “Skinner” Galt leaves Greenwich Village to volunteer as an ambulance driver with the British Army, he anticipates the adventure of a lifet
Truman Capote | Breakfast At Tiffany’s | With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, she is top notch in style and a sensation wherever she goes. Her b
Catherine Cookson | Katie Mulholland | The offspring of working class people in a very class conscious England and at fifteen the model of a young nymph, Katie finds work in one of the grea
