Art Gore

An equal parts haunting and hilarious deep-dive review of history’s most notorious and cold-blooded serial killers, from the creators of the award-winning Last Podcast on the Left Since its first show in 2010, The Last Podcast on the Left has barreled headlong into all things horror, as hosts...

The label is hers. The yarn is not. And someone expects that tiny difference to send an innocent man to prison. Brackenvale's first Fibre & Colour Weekend should be the biggest opportunity of Tessa Wakefield's career. Her yarn shop is full, the market hall is buzzing, and celebrated hand-dyer Celia Vane has arrived to unveil a lucrative new collection. By Friday night, Celia is dead. A crimson skein bearing Tessa's label is found in the victim's hand. A local farmer's fleece knife lies beneath the workbench. The evidence looks neatly tied—but Tessa knows the label is hers and the yarn is ...

The glorious Phryne Fisher returns to the spotlight in her seventh adventure. Fisher is an independent, unconventional PI with competence, unflappability and flamboyance in equal measures.

Running late to the Hinkler gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore, she meets some thugs in a dark alley and handles them convincingly before they can ruin her silver dress. Phryne then finds that she has rescued a gorgeous Chinese, Lin Chung, and his grandmother, and is briefly mistaken for a deity.

HansjÖrg Wyss grew up in a working-class family in Switzerland. As a college student in the 1950s, he traveled to the United States for a summer job in Colorado. It was there that he first experienced the majesty of the Grand Canyon and the American West, which forever changed him. As a business leader, Wyss pioneered a medical device company that transformed orthopedic surgery to the benefit of both doctors and patients. It was in business that Wyss developed a groundbreaking approach to problem-solving to create maximum impact.

When a deceased collector's estate delivers six allegedly priceless Meissen porcelain figures to Holloway Antiques, curator-turned-shop-owner Wren Holloway knows something is wrong before she can name it. The weight is off. The glaze is too smooth. And the crossed-swords mark on the base is a little too perfect. Before Wren can finish her authentication, the collector's grandson turns up dead at the harbor during Palmetto Key's annual regatta—and suddenly a porcelain fraud becomes a murder investigation. With Deputy Cal Renner working the case and Barnaby the bloodhound working his nose, ...

"How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell." That would be in the autumn of 1972, when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no idea what was about to hit him. Landing at a time of accelerating municipal squalor and, paradoxically, gathering cultural energy in all spheres as "Downtown" became a category of art and life unto itself, he embarked upon his sentimental education, seventies New York style.

The story that inspired the bestselling classic A Separate Peace and two other coming-of-age tales exploring themes of disillusionment, self-discovery, and friendship, originally published in the 1950s. John Knowles’s A Separate Peace is an American classic; a timeless portrayal of adolescence...

Brought to you by Penguin. Hugo Hunter was the most celebrated gay novelist of the 20th century. He published two masterpieces, securing his place alongside the dazzling literary greats of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and rubbing shoulders with everyone from Truman Capote to James Baldwin, Gore Vidal...

Great art demands a great sacrifice. Isobel craves more than the acclaim of the Venetian art world. She yearns to create something extraordinary that will leave its mark on the world for generations to come. When the enigmatic Luc Thorne enters her life, he offers her a chance to achieve her wildest artistic ambitions. But his gift comes at a terrible price. Dare to enter the world of Dark is the Art and discover the cost of artistic obsession.

Welches weltbekannte Mädchen nicht einmal einen Imbißstand unter ihrem Pseudonym aufmachen durfte (Girl from Ipanema); mit welchem Handbuch man einen Top-Ten-Hit schreibt (3 A.M. Eternal); und weshalb man von seiner eigenen kreativen Leistung am Ende oft nichts hat (Bitter Sweet Symphony)...