A stunning collection of stories that includes the best of Bank's previous collections--newly revised--and nine new short stories.

Beseiged
James Lasdun
$13.00 pb / HBS $10.40

Lasdun's two collections of short stories, Delirium Eclipse and Three Evenings have earned outstanding praise. "When we read [Lasdun] we know what language is for again, we know again what a story does, how it performs, with a refreshing novelty."--James Wood, The Guardian

The Blackwater Lightship: A Novel
Colm Tóibín
$24.00 / HBS $19.20

A resonant story about three generations of an estranged Irish family reuniting to mourn a tragic, untimely death. As Declan dies of AIDS, his his mother, sister, and grandmother are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histories.

Blue
Benjamin Zucker
$40.00 / HBS $32.00

A stunningly original illustrated first novel--modeled after the Talmud--in which the central story is surrounded by the voices and images of numerous characters, real and imagined.

Cryptonomicon

"A Pynchon-esque tour de force with a David Foster Wallace playfulness."--Newsweek

The Essential Tales of Chekhov
Richard Ford, Editor
Constance Garnett, Translator
$14.00 pb / HBS $11.20

Fans of Chekhov, fans of Ford, and lovers of short fiction and classic literature will enjoy this collection. Includes both familar masterpieces and lesser-known works.

Fludd: A Novel
Hilary Mantel
$13.00 pb / HBS $10.40

Mantel's wildly inventive novel about a reincarnated alchemist and an imaginary village in 1950s England is "in every sense a magical book."(Listener)

Julius Knipl and the Beauty Supply District
Ben Katchor
$22.00 / HBS $17.60

From one of our most poetic comic-strip artists--and author of The Jew of New York--the first collection about Katchor's beloved protagonist, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer.

An astonishing character study, a portrait of a family--and a country--tormented by the past, this is one of the year's most absorbing first novels.

The River King
Alice Hoffman
$23.95 / HBS $19.16

Local author Alice Hoffman is "a writer of great wisdom and compassion." (The Washington Post Book World) This novel about the small town of Haddan, MA--divided along class lines--is a compelling return.

Song of the Exile
Kiana Davenport
$14.00 pb / HBS $11.20

An acclaimed, haunting novel of love, war, and one remarkable family, set in Hawaii during the years surrounding World War II.

Vertigo
W.G. Sebald
$23.95 / HBS $19.16

The author's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amazing and certainly his most alarming. A nameless narrator guides us on a hair-raising journey through the past and across Europe, amid restless literary ghosts.