Product Description: In 1937 the author, then aged 19, found the remains of an ancient boat at Ferriby on the Humber shore. This book is his own account of his discoveries, excavations and research over 50 years since the first boat find. The importance of this and the subsequent finds was only fully recognised after World War II, when the new technique of carbon-14 dating revealed that the Ferriby Boats were built before 1000 BC...read more

Product Description: This Is Tomorrow was a seminal exhibition of art, architecture, music and graphic design that took place at London's Whitechapel Gallery in August 1956. At its core was a room given over to the Independent Group, the proto-Pop collective comprised of (at various stages) the theorists Reyner Banham and Lawrence Alloway, photographer Nigel Henderson and the artists Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton, William Turnbull and John McHale...read more

Product Description: After giving up on her Ph.D., Shannon Fairchild, a brilliant but alienated young woman, has settled into an unambitious life cleaning the homes of the wealthy. The sudden and horrific murder of her parents, both respected academics, leads her to discover that they were part of the radical anti-war movement of the 1960s and to suspect that their killer’s motive may lie in their past...read more

Product Description: Randall Wilkes, his big-city journalism career in ruins, has returned after twenty years to Pilgrim’s Rest, the Tennessee hill town where he grew up. He has taken on a lucrative but low-prestige writing job for Sonny McMahan, a former governor and Randall’s boyhood friend, whose own career is under a shadow and who needs a ghost-written autobiography to ease his way back into politics...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

This evocative post-World War II thriller is set in LA, starring former B movie star John Ray Horn.

Product Description:    (Winner of the Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award)   Los Angeles, late 1940s: As brush fires begin to eat at the dry grass in the hills rimming the San Fernando Valley, a more ominous threat is taking shape. All over Hollywood, the U...read more

Former actor John Ray Horn tracks down his former leading lady, faded beauty Rose Galen, only to find her strangled to death, and embarks on a dangerous investigation into her murder that takes him into the dark underbelly of Hollywood's silent-film era. Reprint.

Former actor John Ray Horn tracks down his former leading lady, faded beauty Rose Galen, only to find her strangled to death and embarks on a dangerous investigation into her murder that takes him into the dark underbelly of Hollywood's silent-film era and to a party at a posh Hollywood mansion that changed Rose's life forever. By the author of Clea's Moon. 10,000 first printing.

Evocative post-World War II crime novel set in LA, starring ex-movie-star and debt-collector, John Ray Horn.