A historical novel narrated by the Englishman who discovered King Tut's tomb in 1922, and which alternates between his world of archaeology and flashbacks to the ancient Egypt of Tut.

A historical novel narrated by the Englishman who discovered King Tut's tomb in 1922, and which alternates between his world of archaeology and flashbacks to the ancient Egypt of Tut.

By the author of THE COMMITMENTS, this is the story of Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr., and his best friend Bimbo, who buy an old fish-and-chips van and go into business in the Dublin of the 1990s.

This epic novel tells the story of Vancouver over the course of 16,000 years, beginning in 13,811 B.C. with a young couple belonging to the Yupick tribe and ending with a young Native American woman in 2003. The authors shift back and forth between purely historical information and the story of 12 different characters from 12 different historical periods, many of them with links that combine the story into one long saga.

This is the fourth volume in the legendary saga of Elric.

In this black comedy by an Australian, set in Texas, Vernon, a poor-white 15-year-old, is accused of perpetrating the high-school massacre that was actually the work of his friend, Jesus, who dies in the process. Panicked, Vernon takes off, becomes a media star, is captured, tried for the crime, and sentenced to death. But his small Texas town benefits from the media circus, becoming for the first time in years economically self-sufficient. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.