Books
Like the movie, the book's focus is on Rome, one of the world's most atmospheric marathons.
A new edition of a book that has been called "one of the best running books of all time," timed for the 25th anniversary of its first publication, and aimed at a new generation of runners.
Original work by leading running journalists, literary scholars, creative writers and runners celebrates Roger Robinson's varied career.
Gildong is a cross between Robin Hood and Houdini, magically escaping imprisonment, killing monsters and brigands, and also (like Robin Hood) symbolizing the emerging nationhood of Korea.
Nine poems by five poets, this small landmark book has become a collector's piece, pointing the way to the directions New Zealand poetry was to take in the subsequent decades.
In this little known science fantasy story about a war between the old world and a new race of giants, the always-extraordinary H.G. Wells imagines the effects of artificially engineered food that gets out of control.
The God Boy is a deceptively modest masterpiece...sometimes compared with The Catcher in the Rye
This is a fine collection of original essays by international scholars (Britain, Canada, France, Greece, New Zealand, USA). It revolutionized the perception of Mansfield, previously dismissed as minor short story writer
