Table For TwoMillions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages. In Towless novel Rules of Civility, the indomitable Evelyn

But can even the greatest human intellect outwit the Synthetics

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Another twisting tale of deceit

All occur during a single weekend in different parts of the same house and concern a group of related people

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And Mrs King's predecessor

Now old friends and enemies are creeping out of the shadows

'Remember Simul' - the last words of a dying man

Wolf travels across time and place with Mrs Death to witness deaths of past and present and discuss what the future holds for humanity

he sets out on a journey beyond its borders

New York Times and internationally bestselling author Jay Kristoffs writing has been praised by critics and readers alike and has won many awards

1931) was educated at the University of Berne and at Lincoln College