Atlantic Books

Also contains the "The Mystery Of Marie Roget" and "The Purloined Letter". Each story comes with an afterword, or Casenotes, by Robert Giddings, describing the effect of the book upon original publication....

A summer's evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse - the banality of work, the triviality of holidays. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile...

Paperback edition of Ozick's virtuoso novel which follows an American woman who moves to France after the collapse of her marriage, in the 1950s. Explores the relationship between the old world and the new during the 20th century....

Tu' is a young tour guide working in Hanoi for a company called New Dawn. While he leads tourists through the city, including American vets on "war tours," he starts to wonder what it is they are seeing of Vietnam - and what they miss entirely. Maggie, who is Vietnamese by birth but has lived most her life in the U.S., has returned to her country...

Lost London: 1870-1945 is a spectacular collection of more than 500 of the best images from the former London County Council archive of photographs, which has been held by English Heritage for the past 25 years. Most have never been published before. Taken to provide a unique record of whole districts of London as they were vanishing, each of the...

Oscar is ill and no one, especially not his parents, will tell him what he already knows: that he is dying. Granny Rose, the oldest of the 'ladies in pink' who visit Oscar and his fellow patients, makes friends with him. She suggests that he play a game: to pretend that each of the following twelve days is a decade of his imagines future. One day...