Anywhere: the left hand of darkness (Keywords)

Two people, until recently strangers, find themselves on a long, tortuous and dangerous journey across the ice. One is an outcast, forced to leave his beloved homeland; the other is fleeing from a different kind of persecution. What they have in common is curiosity, about others and themsel...

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing inte...

Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards on its first publication in 1969, this classic SF novel is the story of Winter, a planet with semi-Arctic conditions and inhabitants all of the same sex.

Based on Ursula Le Guin’s award-winning masterpiece, The Left Hand of Darkness is set on Gethen, a world in the grip of an ice age whose people are ambigendered – both male and female, and neither. Genly Ai has been sent from Earth on the biggest mission of his life: to persuade...

Ursula K. Le Guin was one of the most revered and influential writers of the 20th Century. Her 'Earthsea' books have sold millions of copies and been translated into numerous languages, while her trailblazing novel The Left Hand of Darkness was a landmark in feminist science f...

1666. London is recovering from the Great Plague and mourning its dead. The city is free at last, but the pestilence is in search of new feeding grounds, plentiful in the villages outside of London. Harry Lytle, who works for Lord Arlington's intelligence service, is sent to Essex to ...

1666. London is recovering from the Great Plague and mourning its dead. The city is free at last, but the pestilence is in search of new feeding grounds, plentiful in the villages outside of London. Harry Lytle, who works for Lord Arlington's intelligence service, is sent to Essex to ...

A gripping read from C.J. Box, author of the Joe Pickett and Cassie Dewell series, now adapted into the hit TV shows Joe Pickett and Big Sky.It's an hour away from darkness, a bitter winter storm is raging, and Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett is deep in the forest edging Battle Mountain...

It was two-thirty in the morning. Darkness hung over the coast of France. Prepare for a journey back into the most extreme conflict the world has ever seen, as historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us on a rip-roaring, heart-stopping adventure in time. We witness the Second World War fi...

Open Season:There's nothing unusual about the sound of a gunshot in Twelve Sleep. Here in remotest Wyoming, where elk roam the pine forests and cougars prowl the mountains, everyone owns a gun. But when Joe Pickett hears two sharp cracks ring out months before hunting season, it's his job...

On a moonlit night in April 1944 a small band of fearless partisans, led by the British SOE agent Patrick Leigh Fermor, kidnapped a high-ranking Nazi general on the German-occupied island of Crete. In 1941 the German army invaded the strategically important Mediterranean island with ...

"Dennis Lehane advises us not to judge the genre by its Hollywood images of sharp men in fedoras lighting cigarettes for femmes fatales standing in the dark alleys. . . . [Lehane] writes persuasively of the gentrification that has . . . left people feeling crushed."—New York Times Boo...

It's an hour away from darkness with a bitter winter storm raging when Joe Pickett find himself deep in the forest, shotgun in his left hand, his truck's steering wheel handcuffed to his right - and Lamar Gardiner's arrow-riddled corpse splayed against the tree in front of him.

A contemporary novel by the author of "The Left Hand of Darkness", "The Dispossessed" and the "Earthsea" books. Klatsand is a typical American beachside community in which small-town loyalties, betrayals and generations-old resentments combine to produce a powerful crescendo.