Most Popular Books by Paul West

"Presents Hitler''s ''memoir'' of the years he spent as a failed art student in Vienna, just before World War One."--Jacket.

A suspenseful and uniquely literary look into Guy Fawkes and the English Gunpowder Plot of 1605, by one of America''s most celebrated writers.

A week after a battery of worldwide explosions, journalist Adam Grey wakes up in the hospital. He pieces together the events leading to his injury, involving a woman named Angela. Confronted with the truth behind the attacks, they–along with the world at large–are forced to reconsider conventional assumptions about human nature and possibility.

In December 1937 the city of Nanking, China, falls to brutal Japanese invaders. Thus begins a compelling drama wherein the teenaged daughter of an eminent scholar is forced to work as a prostitute. Short-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Prize, "The Tent of Orange Mist" illuminates the plight of intellectuals and artists during profound social and cultural upheaval.

Called "one of the most original talents in American fiction" by The New York Times Book Review, Paul West is a continuously surprising and satisfying writer, whose oeuvre stands as one of the most important in American literature in recent decades. With these reissues, Overlook and Tusk continue its program of publishing the brilliantly lyrical fiction of Paul West. In The Universe, and Other Fictions, Paul West embraces galaxies and molecular events, creating singular fiction as combustible and astonishing as Creation itself. In The Very Rich Hours of Count von Stauffenberg, West weaves a brilliant tapestry of fact and imagination about the ill-fated attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. In the dark literary thriller, The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper, West brilliantly recasts the Jack the Ripper story, drawing on up-to-date research and his own dazzling imagination to plumb the lower depths of Victorian England.

Atomic force microscopes are very important tools for the advancement of science and technology. This book provides an introduction to the microscopes so that scientists and engineers can learn both how to use them, and what they can do.

When she was two, Mandy was found to be deaf and possibly brain-damaged. Suddenly it all made sense- her rages, drinking water from her potty, gobbling six bananas in as many minutes, crashing through the house with a shovel, breaking everything in her path. A child isolated from the world by the silence barrier, trying to break through with storms of sound and destruction. Now Mandy is eight, a beautiful child who holds hands and kisses people, controls her timper, has about a two-hundred-word vocabulary, and draws beautiful spider webs. She has discovered the natural world, and what might have been a tragedy has grown into a joyful celebration of life.

A loosely fictional account of author Paul West''s early days in the 1970s with his wife, bestselling writer, poet, and naturalist Diane Ackerman.

Resounding with all the excitement and romance of the Wild West, this thrilling historical novel about Doc Holliday and the notorious Earps recreates--in heart-stopping detail--the famous shoot-out at the OK Corral.

Explores Warren''s poetry and prose writings to reveal his philosophical concerns as well as the pattern of his career

An inspiring testament to a great writer''s recovery of ebullient expression from speechlessness and near oblivion.

While managing to "pipe" the music of English composer Frederick Delius into the dying Cheops''s ears, he comments on this swarm of events with hilarious and humane authority."--BOOK JACKET.

West examines his symptoms as he suffers from heart disease, diabetes, migraines, and muses over hospital minutiae, existentialism, and the enigma of his biological clock.

Called one of the most original talents in American fiction by The New York Times Book Review, Paul West is a continuously surprising and satisfying writer, whose oeuvre stands as one of the most important in American literature in recent decades. With these reissues, Overlook and Tusk continue its program of publishing the brilliantly lyrical fiction of Paul West.In The Universe, and Other Fictions, Paul West embraces galaxies and molecular events, creating singular fiction as combustible and astonishing as Creation itself. In The Very Rich Hours of Count von Stauffenberg, West weaves a brilliant tapestry of fact and imagination about the ill-fated attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. In the dark literary thriller, The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper, West brilliantly recasts the Jack the Ripper story, drawing on up-to-date research and his own dazzling imagination to plumb the lower depths of Victorian England.

Join River Cottage Australia host Paul West in his garden and kitchen as he shows you how to become that little bit more self-sufficient. Homegrown will give you the confidence and know-how you''ll need to grow, cook and preserve your way through the year. Homegrown features planting guides for the most popular vegetables and fruit trees to grow yourself using whatever space you have, whether it''s a balcony, backyard or nature strip. Paul also has loads of ideas for garden projects to improve your crop, from raising seedlings and building a mini greenhouse to managing rain water and heat-proofing your garden. And don''t forget the food! Paul shares a year''s worth of simple seasonal recipes, from basics such as breads, sauces, pickles and preserves to delicious meals that celebrate fresh produce from the garden. Homegrown is for anyone passionate about food, gardening and community. It will inspire you to grow more of your own produce and cook more nourishing, simple meals to share with the ones you love. Garden projects include: · Raising seedlings · Building a mini greenhouse · Growing potatoes in a bag · Protecting your garden from the heat · Making a raised bed from old pallets · Growing fruit trees from cuttings · Creating a fire circle This is a specially formatted fixed-layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book.

Word-lovers rejoice! This fascinating book reveals the amazing and bizarre histories of language''s building blocks. "A sorcerer of language".--"Publishers Weekly".

Lord Byron''s Doctor is one Polidori, the travelling companion, confidante and unwilling chronicler of George Gordon, Lord Byron. It is the year 1816 and Byron, driven out of England by scandalous allegations of incest with his sister, undertakes a debauched European Grande Tour to meet up with the Percy and Mary Shelly in Geneva. From austere Dutch towns to the mountains of Switzerland, the poet''s most obsessive thoughts are faithfully recorderd by the awed and repulsed Polidori. Paul West''s literary and historical invention of the obscure Italian doctor produces a carnal, extravangant story of Gothic depravity, of poetic genius and the sometimes diabolical personality behind it.

Words is an account of West''s deaf and brain-damaged daughter at age eight.

Delectable ravishments of his lascivious nurse, Sister Binche? Will Harry ever stop giving passionate lectures on military protocol to his son, Clive? How, in short, does this crippled yet committed couple survive the grave disillusionments of life and love? Clive narrates his parents'' lives, taking us behind the curtain of Georgian propriety, conjuring up the pathos of youthful romance, the humor and insularity of small-town life, and the terrible price of war. Love''s.

Accompanied by drawings and arranged chronologically, these Portable People are artists, inventors, politicians, athletes, stars and murderers. The sketches are improvisatory, nostalgic, exuberant, and depraved, and throughout one is reminded that "West is a literary gem whose luster gleams even brighter with each new effort".--The New York Times Book Review.

The Rat Man, Etienne Poulsifer, is the survivor of an unthinkable childhood event-- the burning of his village and his family by the Nazis. When Poulsifer hears that a Nazi war criminal is in a Paris jail, he evolves a kind of street theater piece as a political protest in which he tricks himself up in Nazi regalia and wheels around a fox fur in a baby carriage. His obsessive and ill-considered, yet to him logical and necessary act careens out of control, and the startling outcome represents both loss and redemption.

In this deeply beguiling novel that is both sensational and serious, West fills in the missing details to offer an explanation of the people and the motive behind the savage murders of five East End prostitutes in 1888. Disturbing and graphic, this novel summons up fresh for us the genuine horror in heinous deeds.

For Paul West, a meaningful life is one built around food and community. In The Edible Garden Cookbook & Growing Guide, Paul shows you how easy it is to grow and cook some of your own food, no matter how much space you have. Paul shares practical gardening advice, with guides on building a no-dig garden, composting and keeping chooks, and an A-Z guide of the veggies that are easiest to grow. There are also more than 50 of Paul''s favourite family recipes - simple, produce-driven dishes that are bursting with freshness and flavour. And then there are ideas for fun food activities to do with your community, whether it''s hosting a pickle party or passata day, brewing beer with some mates or whipping up a batch of homemade sausages. The Edible Garden Cookbook & Growing Guide is a celebration of real food and vibrant community. It will inspire you to grow, cook and eat with those you love - and find real meaning along the way. This is a specially formatted fixed-layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book.

In My Mother''s Music, acclaimed stylist Paul West has taken on a monumental labor of love in portraying his mother, an English butcher''s daughter and concert pianist manque whose magnum opus was her children''s lives. Mildred Noden West orchestrated the education of her son and daughter like a grand concerto, shaping, cajoling, haranguing them into capitalizing on their gifts whether they liked it or not. As West puts it with characteristic bravura and humor, "she vented and honed a fearsome amount of nervous energy otherwise channeled into hurling blue bags of sugar at my father''s head (she always missed)." She was never boring.

In this second volume of collected essays and reviews--Sheer Fiction, Volume Two-- Paul West examines the subtleties of Djuna Barnes'' almost devilish wit, the Aeschylean tones of Broadway''s Les Miserables, and the ideas binding Dickens and Dostoevesky to Faulkner. On the briefer side, West reviews some 50 novels by such diverse authors as Turgunev, J.R.R. Tolkein, Cortazar, Amado, Marie-Claire Blais, Janet Frame, Anthony Burgess, Anita Desai, Katherine Dunn, George Garrett, Kurt Vonnegut, J.R. Salamanca, Stanley Elkin, and more. Many of the books reviewed are currently available in paperbacks, and more attention is given in this volume to American and other English-language authors than in Volume One. His writing style is supple, invigorating, intelligent, generous by intention, and clearly the result of nothing less than complete engagement with his subject, whether it is the latest European novels or the clinical implications of heart attack or the true nature of atrocity. He is as unstinting in his praise of what he admires as he is devastating in his criticism of pretense and ineptitude.

Booth and Clegg, American spy-plane pilots, find themselves in a different world when they are shot down over Saharan Africa.

One of America''s most beloved prose stylists gives readers and writers their own personal seminar on the art of great fiction.