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Norman Levine was a permanent outsider, by temperament and by choice as Polish born immigrant, as resident alien, as writer, as Jew and he observed life from the margins with an unsentimental eye.

'So,' she says. 'Who died tonight?' Sam Samson, meet Samantha. Sam's a novelist: his dad has Alzheimer's, his mother died of stroke, his wife was killed seventeen months ago in a car crash.

In Just As I Am, Billy Graham looks back at it all - remembering his dairy farm upbringing, his early preaching experiences, and the overwhelming international response to his public ministry based

David Constantine's short fiction is a revelation.

Ellie Lucan's about as far as she can get from the screwed-up teenager she used to be.

Presents the story of the four-year old son of a Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven.

A critical and commercial success in German, Kahn & Engelmann tells the story of a Jewish family from rural Hungary, their immigration to Vienna in the great days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

A soldier's wife struggles to reconnect with her daughter after her husband is killed overseas. A baby abandoned at the rectory door inflames a town with gossip. A dog is shot.

A novel about a hypnotherapist who falls in love with a man whose ex-girlfriend is stalking him

Two runners race a cargo train through the darkness of a rat-infested tunnel beneath the Detroit River.

Human ageing is reversible. Scientific research shows that we can literally turn back the markers of getting old, including blood pressure, muscle strength, cholesterol levels and many others.

Clark Blaise's Lunar Attractions is the story of David Greenwood, the fantasy-driven son of a too-charming, two-timing furniture salesman.

Our Woman will not be sunk by what life's about to serve her. She's caught her son doing unmentionable things out by the barn.

Life seems to be one step forward, two steps back, but Katie never gives up hope.

An Indo-American Canterbury Tales, 'The Meagre Tarmac' explores the places where tradition, innovation, culture, and power meet with explosive force.