Bloomsbury

"There is the everlasting possibility of disobedience, civil disorder, destruction, yes, yes - but the mere whisper or cloud no larger than a man's hand of revolution in this country is madness"It is 6th May 1926, the third day of the General Strike.This is the story of that harrowing week seen through the eyes of the women and men of London as...

It’s only one month later, and so much has happened: Jonathan’s dad has remarried without telling Jonathan, his mom’s flown to Paris to sulk, his friends are all breaking up with their girlfriends, and an ugly rumor is going around...is Jonathan’s dad a thief? Did he really cheat all Jonathan’s friends’ parents out of...

That Borges is one of the key figures in twentieth-century literature is beyond debate. The reasons behind this claim, however, are a matter of contention. In Latin America he is read as someone who reorganized the canon, questioned literary hierarchies, and redefined the role of marginal literatures. On the other hand, in the rest of the world,...

When Jason Milwaukee’s best friend Sunshine vanishes, Jason knows that something is terribly wrong, but solving her disappearance will require pushing through all the voices in his head and then getting the world to listen to him. His schizophrenia is stopping him from remembering the events leading up to her disappearance, and often he...

Perhaps the most revered American of all, George Washington has long been considered a stoic leader who held himself above the fray of political infighting. What has gone unnoticed about the much-researched life of Washington is that he was in fact a consummate politician, as historian John Ferling shows in this revealing and provocative new book....

Jackson Jones is trying to decide whether to remain an anthropology professor in his small Midwestern town, or to return to doing fieldwork among the Mbuti people, in their African Garden of Eden. His ruminations are interrupted by the arrival of a late friend’s niece, who has just been sprung from jail. Sunny admits that she shot her husband,...