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  • A Domestic Animal

    by Francis King ...
    A tragicomic novel of unrequited love by “one of the finest and most remarkable of English novelists of our time.” (The Scotsman)Antonio Valli, a gifted Italian philosopher in his thirties, has left his wife and children behind in Florence for a one-year research fellowship at a provincial English university. Handsome and charming, Antonio is irresistible to men and women both; something he knows ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Act of Darkness

    by Francis King ...
    A gripping murder mystery and a profound meditation on the nature of evilThe scene is 1930s India during the waning days of British colonization. The Thompsons, a prosperous and respectable English family, are enjoying a summer at their beautiful villa when a brutal murder is committed that will tear the family apart. But what seems at first to be an act of terrorism against British rule will turn ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Sexuality, Magic & Perversion

    by Francis King ...
    Sexuality, Magic & Perversion by Francis King is a controversial, revelatory, highly recommended volume of original research that investigates sexuality in religions and traditions all over the globe, from fertility cults and tantricism to Islamic mysticism and Crowleyan sex magick. A tantalizing study of the mystical aspect of sex, heavily researched. ... Read more

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  • The AI Shift

    by Francis King ...
    Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way we work, from finance, healthcare, and education to skilled trades and administration. Many professionals worry that AI will replace jobs, disrupt careers, or make their skills obsolete. The AI Shift offers a clear, practical roadmap to navigate the AI-driven workforce, showing how to adapt to AI in the workplace, embrace AI tools, and grow your ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Man Who Was Goethe: Memoirs, Letters & Essays (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Memoirs, Letters, and Essays on Weimar Classicism, Romantic Europe, and the Cultivation of Self

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Niall Elmridge ...
    Translated by John Oxenford, A. J. W. Morrison, Thomas Bailey Saunders, Charles Lock Eastlake, Francis Henry King, George Kriehn ...
    The Man Who Was Goethe: Memoirs, Letters & Essays gathers the self-revealing prose through which Johann Wolfgang von Goethe becomes not merely a monument of German letters but an active, searching mind. Through recollection, correspondence, criticism, and reflection, the volume traces his intellectual range: art, science, friendship, politics, love, and the discipline of literary creation. Its ... Read more

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  • Never Again

    by Francis King, Robert Khan ...
    "One of our great writers, of the calibre of Graham Greene and Nabokov." - Beryl Bainbridge"He deserves the widest possible readership." - Melvyn Bragg, Punch"Mr. King is, of course, an extremely skilful writer. All his characters are credible, all worth observing." - Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard"No one writes better prose than Francis King." - Ruth RendellHugh Craddock's idyllic childhood in ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Book of Life

    by C. H. B. Kitchin, Francis King ...
    Set in the twilight of the Edwardian age, The Book of Life is the story of Francis Froxwell, an orphan caught between his mother's family, kind but common, and his father's family, the proud and wealthy Froxwells. Aged ten, Francis goes to live with the Froxwells and becomes fascinated with his grandfather's ledger, the 'Book of Life', in which each family member's prospective inheritance is ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Murder International

    Ten Classic Full-Cast BBC Radio Crime Dramas

    by Guy de Maupassant, Francis King, Alexander Pushkin, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, H. G. Wells, Julian Symonds, Wilkie Collins, Honoré De Balzac, W. Somerset Maugham, Stacy Aumonier ...
    Narrated by Dennis Quilley, George Cole, Joss Ackland, Michael Denison, Christopher Cazenove, Maureen O'Brien, George Baker, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 47 min

    Ten vintage dramas on the theme of murder, written by internationally recognised authors and set across the globe‘Murder is murder, anywhere in the world. The taking of life, the most terrible crime a human being can commit, is the same in any language, whether it springs from vengeance, greed, hate, love or whatever...’Conceived by BBC World Service producer Derek Hoddinott, the 1976 anthology ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • To the Dark Tower

    by Francis King ...
    General Sir Hugh Weigh is a war hero, a celebrated adventurer, and a best-selling author, whose personality has the power to inspire such strong loyalty and devotion that at least one person has willingly died for him. But in private, he is austere, imperious, even cruel, and his cold disregard for others has led to the deaths of his wife and son. Now two more people have begun to feel the force ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Collected Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Novels, Plays, Essays & Autobiography (200+ Titles in One Edition): Wilhelm Meister's Travels, Faust Part One and Two, Italian Journey...

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
    Translated by Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Bayard Taylor, R. Dillon Boylan, Charles Lock Eastlake, Thomas Bailey Saunders, Anna Swanwick, John Oxenford, A. J. W. Morrison, Edgar A. Bowring, James Anthony Froude, Sir Theodore Martin, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, George Kriehn, William Francis Henry King ...
    This meticulously edited Goethe collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Novels & Novellas: The Sorrows of Young Werther Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years Elective Affinities The Good Women Novella; or, A Tale The Recreations of the German Emigrants - Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (A Fairy Tale) Plays The ... Read more

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  • The Dark Glasses

    by Francis King, Jonathan Fryer ...
    "A beautifully constructed, beautifully modulated and balanced story. To say that this is a haunting book seems a cliché, but it is true." - Pamela Hansford Johnson"[T]he writing is taut and precise, generating a sustained emotional tension . . . . a book of distinctive quality." - The Guardian"Characters and situations are delineated with fine simplicity and economy, but also with telling ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Man on the Rock

    by Francis King, Gregory Woods ...
    'A skilful, confident tale of modern Greece ... brilliantly successful ... There is indeed no fault to find with this book.' - David Williams, Guardian'Mr. King is masterly ... he is exact, moving and funny ... a very enjoyable book.' - Angus Wilson, The Observer'Constructed with unobtrusive mastery ... has the quality of readability which can only be achieved by the highest type of professional ... Read more

    $7.99 USD