Inspired by a children's geography primer, The Arrow Book of States, Starkey's Book of States was conceived in response as a contemporary poetic atlas.

The Boy Who Said No is first and foremost a story of people and their travails.

Violence and sex in a small Southern city. Arkie, Clemmie, Oxie, and Johns are linked by a schoolboy.

The Saga of Rifka and Herschel begins in South Africa where Herschel Haverman joins the Frankel family.

Dagny Taggart Jamison is a private investigator born on the day.

With this novel, the author of Inquest and Executive Action has managed fiction-created-from-fact.

From the author: I find the small acts within my observation interesting enough to merit writing.

Throne of Straw has been performed in: Los Angeles at UCLA's MacGowan Hall, the Odyssey Theater.

The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.

It was in the year 1869 that impressed with the degree in which, even during the last twenty years, when the world seemed wholly occupied with other matters.

First published in 1886, The Bostonians is one of James' wittiest social satires.

The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror novel by William Hope Hodgson.

Dead Souls is a socially critical black comedy.

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is the fictional account of the life of a young American man in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

The Sheik is a book by Edith Maude Hull, an English novelist of the early twentieth century.

First published in 1899, The Amateur Cracksman was the first collection of stories detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian England.

First published in 1909, A Thief in the Night is the first novel detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian England.

Doctor Dolittle takes on an apprentice, Tommy Stubbins, as they set out to find Long Arrow, the world's greatest naturalist.

In a Glass Darkly collects together five short stories from gothic horror and mystery writer Sheridan Le Fanu.

Darwin consolidated a lifetime of work in On the Origin of Species, compiling his discoveries from the voyage of the Beagle, his experiments, research and correspondence.