Bloomsbury USA

City Boy

di Edmund White

An irresistible literary treat: a memoir of the social and sexual

lives of New York City's cultural and intellectual in-crowd in the

tumultuous 1970s, from acclaimed author Edmund White.

In the New York of the...

The Teleportation Accident: A Novel

di Ned Beauman

When you haven't had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that could ever happen.

If you're living in Germany in the 1930s, it probably isn't.

But that's no consolation to Egon Loeser, whose carnal...

Painter of Silence: A Novel

di Georgina Harding

It is the early 1950s. A nameless man is found on the steps of the hospital in Iasi, Romania. He is deaf and mute, but a young nurse named Safta recognizes him from the past and brings him paper and pencils...

Committed

di Chris Knutsen

Committed gives women a rare insight into what the other half really thinks.-Candace Bushnell

In these original essays, seventeen celebrated authors give a private tour of the male psyche and discuss the journey...

Kitchen Confidential

di Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine."

Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This."...

Princess Academy

di Shannon Hale

Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess....

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Hugo Award for Best Novel 2005, World Fantasy Best Novel 2005

di Susanna Clarke

Susanna Clarke's brilliant novel is an utterly compelling, epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the way two very different magicians, who, as teacher and pupil and then as rivals, emerge to change its...

Diablerie

di Walter Mosley

With the same erotic force as Killing Johnny Fry, this time with a far darker plot and damning view of human nature, Diablerie is a transfixing novel from a writer who is a master in any genre.

"[Mosley] is...a...

Book of a Thousand Days

di Shannon Hale

Based on a classic Grimm's fairy tale, this is the story told by Dashti, a maid from the steppes of a medieval land, who sacrifices her freedom to accompany her mistress into exile. Imprisoned in a remote tower...

Mimi

di Lucy Ellmann

It's Christmas Eve in Manhattan. An eminent plastic surgeon slips on the ice, lands on his butt, and sprains his ankle. So far, so good. A woman such as he's never known yanks him to his feet and conjures the...

A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar: A Novel

di Suzanne Joinson

It is 1923. Evangeline (Eva) English and her sister Lizzie are missionaries heading for the ancient city of Kashgar on the Silk Road. Though Lizzie is on fire with her religious calling, Eva's motives are not...

Dragon Kiss

di E. D. Baker

Audun is on a quest to find Princess Millie, and to become human in order to win her heart. But The Dragon King has set out a number of tasks Audun must perform before he is permitted to even try to woo Millie...and...

Midnight in Austenland: A Novel

di Shannon Hale

When Charlotte Kinder treats herself to a two-week vacation at Austenland, she happily leaves behind her ex-husband and his delightful new wife, her ever-grateful children, and all the rest of her real life...

The Great Negro Plot

di Mat Johnson

In 1741, New York City was thrown into an uproar when a sixteen-year-old white woman, an indentured servant named Mary Burton, testified that she was privy to a monstrous conspiracy against the white people...

Ghosty Men

di Franz Lidz

A true tale of changing New York by Franz Lidz, whose Unstrung Heroes is a classic of hoarder lore.

Homer and Langley Collyer moved into their handsome brownstone in white, upper-class Harlem in 1909. By 1947,...

Guernica

di Dave Boling

In 1935, Miguel Navarro finds himself on the wrong side of the Spanish Nationalists, so he flees to Guernica, the most ancient town of the Basque region. In the midst of this idyllic, isolated bastion of democratic...

Wood Nymph Seeks Centaur

di Francesca Lia Block

Navigating the world of dating can be like wandering an enchanted forest, full of creatures with peculiar habits and baffling behavior. In Wood Nymph Seeks Centaur, Francesca Lia Block provides a guide to this...

The Tall Book

di Arianne Cohen

The Tall Book is a celebration of the tall-advantaged, which notes and explores the myriad benefits that come with living large--from the simple pleasures of being able to see over crowds at a parade, to the...

What Would Keith Richards Do?

di Jessica Pallington West

What is a wiseman? What is a prophet?

Someone with a strange, unflappable demeanor. Someone who speaks in cryptic koans, words whose meanings take years to unravel. Someone who has confronted death, God, sin,...

Killing Johnny Fry

di Walter Mosley

A frankly pornographic novel, and I mean that as a compliment.-New York Times Book Review

When Cordell Carmel catches his longtime girlfriend with another man, the act that he witnesses seems to dissolve all...