Melanie Dwyer has had some disappointments to deal with lately. She’s lost her corporate job and her lover of many years just moved out. Buying an old house miles from nowhere in eastern Ontario, to run a bed and breakfast with a definite ‘green’ agenda, might be considered a poorly-researched decision, but she is undaunted. Along with her country education, she finds new friends―people with far more memorable lives than most of the city folk Mel knew. Together, they form a family for...

Darkly and amusingly written, Poor Me is about a self-destructive 26-year-old man named Matthew who finds himself wandering between loneliness and companionship. Being a lonesome drinker, he has the tendency to cause trouble wherever he goes. His life isn't nearly as exciting as his expectations wanted it to be so he does unforgivable attempts to pursuit happiness while destroying other's.

"The Night Land" is a dark and imaginative novel written by William Hope Hodgson. Set in a far-future Earth, the story takes place in a world shrouded in perpetual darkness, where the last remnants of humanity live within a colossal pyramid-like structure called the Last Redoubt. This structure serves as protection against the sinister creatures that roam the night, as well as the even greater threat known as the Watching Things.

The story follows an unnamed narrator who communicates through ...

As the anti-German sentiment in Britain rises and the conflict between Britain and Germany escalates, half-German Royal Navy Officer, the always calm, serene and confident Hugh Edwards, faces professional and personal challenges as he tries to conceal his past fearing the growing anti-german sentiment in Britain. Will he free himself? And if so, at what costs?

Suspecting that her husband is unfaithful to her, the charming violet embarks on a romantic quest, searching for her mysterious admir...

First ever English translation of his classic, the Dutch cult book "Kees de jongen," the world seen through the eyes of a lower middle class boy of lively fantasy and intelligence.

Has the mind of a twelve-year-old ever been so intimately, so comprehensively, so compassionately exposed? With its delicious irony and its well dosed sentiment, had it been written by Chekhov this novel would have been one of his major works. No less an authority than the current doyen of Dutch literature, Remco C...

"Ulysses" by James Joyce is a novel that follows the events of a single day, June 16th, 1904, in the lives of three main characters: Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom. The story takes place in Dublin, Ireland, and is divided into 18 chapters, each with its own unique style and structure.

The novel explores various themes, including identity, mortality, and the search for meaning in life. Joyce uses stream-of-consciousness narrative techniques and a variety of literary styles to ...

"Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" is a novel written by Edwin A. Abbott in 1884. The story is set in a two-dimensional world called Flatland, where the inhabitants, geometrical shapes, are restricted to movement within two dimensions. The book satirizes Victorian society and explores the limitations of perception and understanding.

The protagonist, a square, discovers the existence of a one-dimensional world called Lineland and a three-dimensional world called Spaceland. He struggles t...

Tramps.

How can it come to this with anyone anyway?

Usually it originates with bad luck. When there is no one to help you and you panic, bad luck stacks bad luck and you lose everything. Addicts, old people who can no longer keep up with the times, single people who are evicted because of debts. There are also children among them.

Isolated fringe figures, of whom we sometimes catch a glimpse in a

corner of the eye. Because invisibility is a survival strategy.

Sometimes something happens...