Charles Gorham's acclaimed, controversial and banned novel, lost for over sixty years, is finally back in print.
Who is Carlotta McBride? In the swank nightclubs of New York, Hollywood and Paris, she is the beautiful and brilliant star of stage and screen... but in the dark, lurid dive bars and dark alleys of those same cities, she is promiscuous and self-destructive, slowly killing herself with alcohol, drugs, and risky sex. She is a woman seared and haunted by trauma in her past that she can't escape, whether it's in the fantasy world of acting, or at the bottom of a whisky bottle, or in the arms of a brutal man. The only person who can save her is herself...but to do it, she will have to confront a shocking truth.
25 hard-boiled, pulp noir novels written by 20 masters of the genre, back-in-print for the first time in 60 years, in one thrilling, action-packed collection.
The monumental and unparalleled fictionalized biography of Honoré de Balzac – a volcanic talent, a savage libertine and one of the greatest literary figures of all time. This is Balzac’s incredible life story, from cradle-to-grave, from obscurity to fame, set against the dramatic, vividly-portrayed backdrop of 19th century France, shared from the point of view of the people closest to him.
TWENTY-FOUR forbidden, sexy novels from the 1950s and early 60s, out of print for decades, collected in one massive volume
“This is a brilliant book written by a brilliant man who has no fear expressing his ideas.” Birmingham News
A big, rugged story of Alaska...and of a spectacular woman as wild as the land that bred her.