Following the death of his father, Jim Nashe takes to the open road. But there he picks up Pozzi, a hitchhiking gambler, and is drawn into a dangerous game of high-stakes poker with two eccentric and reclusive millionaires.

A comic/graphic novel that won the Guardian First Book Award 2001. It is the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize.

Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. This work explores a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it.

'The Prodigy' originally dating from 1905, is Herman Hesse's bitter indictment of conventional education.

Radio actor Iron Rinn is a roughneck blighted by a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. An idealistic Communist turned popular performer, he marries America's reigning radio actress and silent movie star, Eve Frame. However, both his marriage and his life collapse.

'A Simple Heart', 'The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller' and 'Herodias'. Unabridged republication of the work, originally published by Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1921.