Alice travels through the eye of a needle and meets many unusual creatures including the letters of the alphabet.

Designed for gift giving, an illustrated collection of classic fairy tales, rendered in modern prose by such celebrated authors as A. S. Byatt and John Ashbery, explores the battle of good and evil and the endless quest for love. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: “A literary gem, a tour de force . . . Beautifully constructed, superbly characterized. What disturbs is the sheer elegance of Adair’s prose style –– most of us had probably forgotten English could be written so well.” –– Literary Review (U.K.)

Product Description: Cinema is the quintessential art form of the twentieth century. From the Lumiere brothers' first public film screening at the end of the nineteenth century to the technical wizardry of today, cinema has recorded, created, even revised our history...read more

Product Description: Whilst visiting Venice in 1911 Thomas Mann's eye was drawn to a young sailor suited boy of almost supernatural beauty, and inspired to write "Death in Venice". This is a biography of that boy, who went on to lead a life as rich and as full of twists as any piece of fiction.

Product Description: Containing many scenes that were subsequently cut from the final edit, this is the screenplay adaptation of Gilbert Adair's novel. The film tells the unlikely tale of the obsession harbored by reclusive London novelist Giles De'ath for hunky but not very talented American teen pin-up Ronnie Bostock, after seeing him in an appalling movie...read more

Product Description: In the summer of 1911, the German writer Thomas Mann visited Venice in the company of his wife Katia. There, in the Grand Hotel des Bains, as he waited for the dinner-gong to ring, the author’s roving eye was drawn to a nearby Polish family, the Moeses, consisting of a mother, three daughters, and a young sailor-suited son who, to Mann, exuded an almost supernatural beauty and grace...read more

A young British man comes to 1980s Paris to teach English and to taste the erotic life that has eluded him in Britain. He's gay - most of the teachers at the school are gay - and he suddenly finds himself in the midst of a sexual free-for-all beyond his wildest dreams. Then the AIDS epidemic hits.

Summoned to a snowed-in Dartmoor manor on Boxing Day in 1935 when the body of a blackmailing gossip columnist is discovered in the attic, retired Scotland Yard inspector Trubshawe is baffled when he discovers clues that do not add up.

Product Description: What, I thought, was to prevent me from truly killing the author?Part murder mystery and all jet-black satire, and based on a real life scandal, this edgy novella tells the story of Léopold Sfax, world-renowned as the creator of "The Theory"—a bizarre literary theory that grew from an intellectual folly to a dominant school of criticism that enslaved college campuses across the country...read more