If This Isn't Nice, What Is? - The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By

Kurt Vonnegut; Dan Wakefield (Selected by)

Selected and introduced by fellow novelist and friend Dan Wakefield, the speeches in If This Isn't Nice, What Is? capture a different side of Kurt Vonnegut for the first time in book form. There are nine speeches, seven given at colleges, one to the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, one on the occasion of ...

The Quick and the Dead - True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologist

Cynric Temple-Camp

Dr Cynric Temple-Camp's suspense-filled, often Gothic story-telling ability captivated readers in his debut book, The Cause of Death. In the Quick and the Dead, New Zealand's self-confessed aficionado of death is back with more mysterious illnesses, gruesome murders, baffling crimes, and the other curio...