Julian: 1621 books

Crime-writer Charles Applegate decided to set his second novel in a progressive school. Taking a job at Bramley Hall to see what such a school was like ‘from the inside,’ Applegate found to his dismay that he was expected to do rather more than just people-watch. And when a murder took place on...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN EDWARDS 'One of our most ingenious and stylish home-grown crime novelists' — Spectator 'A book to delight every puzzle-suspense enthusiast' — New York Times John Wilkins meets a beautiful, irresistible girl, and his world is turned upside down. Looking...

This excellent biography of English sea captain Sir Francis Drake (1540–1596), part of the English Men of Action series, is a reservoir of information for students of history and those with a passion for exploration. Among his many legendary exploits, Drake led the first English circumnavigation of the world, for which he was awarded knighthood.

The book is concerned with "meaningful coincidences," as Professor C. G. Jung termed them, and with attempts to explain their cause in such areas as statistical probability, divine intervention or depth psychology.

This book surveys the historical background of the legend and is intended to explain its appeal to people in general and to poets in particular throughout the centuries. It expresses the author's close interest in Robert Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and the poet's choice of particular...

Set amongst the beginning of the 'Arab Spring' in Tunis, Mariam, a young musician, secludes herself away in order to compose the music she long desires to create. Having recently returned home after a failed relationship with a fellow musician at a conservatory in Paris, Mariam seeks the advice...

September 1982.  In a working class neighborhood in Queens, New York, sixteen year old Nico Razza is a perpetual outcast, often victim to the taunts of his classmates, peers and neighborhood bullies.  Steeped in Punk Rock culture, he is not only rebelling against society, authority and his peers,...

Julio returns, only this time we find him revealing a dark secret from his childhood which has affected his love life, his friendships, even his interaction with psychotherapists. Now revealing all to yet another one, he finds himself distracted by his intense attraction to her. As he navigates the...

What happens when an American poet, a Uruguayan painter, a Peruvian chef,  a Syrian belly dancer, an Algerian musician and an Italian religious fundamentalist are all searching for meaning and their lives intersect on the streets of Paris?  “Nadería” is a story about failed hopes, unrealized...

*Tunis, 1904. Ernesto Nicari, a laborer living among the Sicilian immigrant community in La Goulette, and his wife Luisa, dream of one day going to America. Unable to conceive children, they are destined to live a life together alone. Leyla is a seventeen year old Berber girl who ran away from home...

*New York City, sometime in the 1990s. On his way to a Brooklyn loft party, Julio is about to spend yet another drunken evening that will forever change him. Through a series of flashbacks, childhood and adolescent memories, fever dreams, and drunken reverie, Julio reflects on his choices in life,...

Former playwright and current high school drama teacher Dante Russo gets word that his friend and mentor is on his deathbed. Jacques Martre had always been an inspiration to him and over the years they had established a very strong friendship. Knowing that he doesn’t have much time, he travels to...

1997: A brash American journalist, Claudio Nicari, and his Tunisian colleague Sarah, go on assignment to interview the elusive and secretive Omar Abbadi, the spiritual leader and 'Commander of The Faithful' of a violent Islamist group called the Algerian Islamic Front. Accompanied by their cameraman...