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Touching sci-fi story about the enduring connection between mother and child.

A man's mother is brutally murdered but, except for the finger marks around her neck, no trace of the killer can be found.

When Helen decides to buy a computer, she finds herself with a new acquaintance, Arsenius Jackson.

Ridley believed that human beings were beasts driven by appetite; even artistic creation was a bodily function.

Following the sudden death of their brother Edward, Caroline, Rebecca Ann and Henry are left in the family home.

"I watched as the man I saw so clearly disappeared into the endless white."

Genuinely tragic story of a dog's devotion to his master.

Story following the life of a Pole and his village during its occupation.

The first man on earth recalls the early years.

A travel guide to the little-known Eastern European destination of O.

An Irish traveller leaves his clan and tries to make it in Dublin.

A man stands on a railroad bridge; his wrists are bound with a chord, a rope encircles his neck. This story was adapted into the most popula