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Further Tales of the City (#3 Tales of the City) by Armistead Maupin
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of the City Series
"An extended love letter to a magical San Francisco." -- "New York Times Book Review" The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her basement, Michael Tolliver looks for love at ...Show more
Ghost Town by Patrick McGrath
Category: Fiction | Series: Writer and the City Series
Features three tales from the hand of master storyteller Patrick McGrath. This work excavates the layers of New York's turbulent history.
Howl & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg; William Carlos Williams (Introduction by)
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series Book 4
Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trail at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene. ...Show more
London - City-Lit by Heather Reyes
Category: Travel | Series: City-Lit Series
London is the world's most happening, most exciting and most diverse city. From Roman stronghold and mighty capital of the British Empire to financial powerhouse and city of the 2012 Olympics, London has always looked to the past and the future. And no one reflects this brilliant complexity better than ...Show more
Melbourne by Sophie Cunningham
Category: Travel | Series: City series
Sophie Cunningham writes a year in the city's life, a year that takes us from the heatwave that culminated on Black Saturday when temperatures soared to 47 degrees to the destructive deluge of a hailstorm. She walks through Melbourne's oldest suburb to its largest market, she goes to the footy and to th ...Show more
Paris city-lit by Heather Reyes
Category: Travel | Series: City-Lit Series
Introduction by Stephen Clarke, author of A Year in the Merde
Perth by David Whish-Wilson
Category: Australian History | Series: City series
David Whish-Wilson's Perth is a place of surprising beauty, of sand-swept peace and brilliant light, yet a place where the deeper historical currents are never too far beneath the surface. Like the Swan River that flows in two directions at once at certain times, with the fresh water flowing seawards ab ...Show more
Pomes All Sizes by Jack Kerouac
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series
The original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and 1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac's death in 1969. Reaching beyond the scope of his Mexico City Blues, here are pomes about Mexico and Tangier, Berkeley and the Bowery. Mid-fifties road poems, hymns ...Show more
Rome
Category: Travel | Series: City-Lit Series
Focuses on Rome, an amazing and multi-faceted city.
Sydney by Delia Falconer
Category: Australian History | Series: City series
"Sydney may look golden, but this is the sunniness of Mozart, whose bright notes, especially at their most joyous, seem to cast themselves out across a great abyss." Sydney has always been the sexiest and most gaudy of our cities. In this book, the third in a series in which leading Australian authors w ...Show more
Venice - City-Pick by REYES HEATHER HED
Category: Travel | Series: City-Pick Series
Jan Morris arrives by sea Casanova crosses the ominous Bridge of Sighs Patricia Highsmith's Ripley gets his own palazzo Kazuo Ishiguro introduces the musicians of St Mark's Square D H Lawrence brings Lady Chatterley to Venice Geoff Dyer gets under the skin of the Biennale Sally Vickers' Miss Garnett cli ...Show more