When Delaney Mossbacher knocks down a Mexican pedestrian, he neither reports the accident nor takes his victim to hospital. Instead the man accepts and limps back to poverty and his pregnant 17-year-old wife. But these two men are fated against each other, as Delaney attempts to clear the land of the illegal immigrants.

A novel from the author of Drop City and The Tortilla Curtain .

A collection of 15 short stories. Meet Bernard Puff, proprietor of an all-American dude safari ranch just outside Bakersfield, California, where you can shoot big-game without the inconvenience of travelling to Africa. Or Susan Certaine, a professional organizer and acquisitive disorders therapist.

Dana sits in a courtroom with her legs shackled as a list of charges is read out. But the panic that grips her is not because she has been caught. She knows there has been a mistake - she didn't commit any of these crimes. Dana and her lover Bridger set out to find the person who is living a blameless life of criminal excess at her expense.

It is the seventies, at the height of flower power. Star has just joined Drop City, a hippie commune in sunny California living the simple, natural life. But underneath the drugs, music and transcendent bliss, she slowly discovers tensions and sexual rivalries that threaten to split the community apart.

A new collection from the American master of the short story

A new collection from the American master of the short story

A collection of short stories from the author of The Tortilla Curtain .

Trained in the way of the Samurai, dreaming of the City of Brotherly Love, Hiro Tanaka impetuously jumps ship off the coast of Georgia - only to wash up on a barrier island populated by rednecks, descendants of black slaves, and a colony of crazed artists.

A compulsive thriller and a tender love story from one of America's finest writers

It is the turn of the century. Stanley McCormick, the twenty-nine-year-old heir to the great Reaper fortune, meets and marries Katherine Dexter, a woman of 'power, beauty, wealth and prestige'. Two years later, Stanley falls victim to a sexual mania and schizophrenia, and is imprisoned in the massive forbidding mansion known as Riven Rock.

Walter Van Brunt likes nothing better than to fly along on his motorbike, invincible and immortal. But one day, dodging a mysterious shadow on the road, he crashes into a barrier and loses his right foot. Walter is a descendant of Dutch yeomen and since the day of the accident he has been haunted by their ghosts.

T. Coraghessan Boyle is regarded as one of America's greatest living short-story writers. This publication brings together all his stories into one volume.

Star has joined a hippie commune devoted to peace, free love and living the simple, natural life. For Star and her companions it is utopia, a community free of the restrictions of the outside world. But underneath the bliss, she discovers tensions that threaten to split the community apart.

An ecological comedy with a message.

Felix is a quitter, with a poor track record behind him. Until the day the opportunity presents itself to make half a million dollars tax-free - by nurturing 390 acres of cannabis in the lonely hills of northern California.

Until he hit the shabby Mexican pedestrian with his car, Delaney Mossbacher liked to think his liberal humanist values were as unblemished as his driving record. He did not report the accident, yet he could not get the image of the Mexican out of his mind.

A collection of short stories that veer from the psychological to the slapstick, and from surrealism to satire.

A classic novel by America's foremost novelist

It is the seventies, at the height of flower power. Star has just joined Drop City, a hippie commune in sunny California living the simple, natural life. When the authorities threaten to close down Drop City, the hippies abandon camp and head up north to Alaska. But neither they nor the inhabitants of Boynton are prepared for each other.