The JobWilliam Burroughs work was dedicated to an assault upon language, traditional values and all agents of control. Produced at a time when he was at his most extreme and messianic, The Job lays out his abrasive, incisive, paranoiac, maddened and maddening worldview in interviews interspersed with stories and other writing. On the Beat movement, the importance of the cut up technique, the press, Scientology, capital punishment, drugs, good and evil, the

Only small-time criminal Claydon Torcreek and master spy Lizanne Lethridge - along with their ragtag band of allies - stand between the white drake's fury and the world's end

'A furiously original novel

The bloodstone has disappeared and the Regent

this is Rendell at her most memorable and best

Now Katie must forage and hunt the few surviving animals for meat as she attempts to feed her little boy

Just as long as he doesn't have to fight for it himself

especially when his ship is attacked by a French privateer

He can't accept that the happy-go-lucky girl he grew up with would try to kill herself

And thus the three men set out to solve one of the world's most famous mysteries - the ultimate truth about the identity of Jack the Ripper

Walter Satterthwait has created an eager audience for famous-figure mysteries

Scarred by failure

author of Black Widow