'A masterful writer' - RAYMOND CARVER

Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive and singular view of…

Mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West - and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there. This is a story…

Walker assesses Richard Ford’s novels (like Independence Day ) and short stories, offering critical readings and explanations of his dominant themes, and shows how Ford is indebted to, yet departs…

The letters of Richard Ford, 1797-1858 has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps…

An anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the twentieth century with stories by writers such as Eudora Welty, John Cheever and Raymond Carver (and forty…

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Frank Bascombe, fifty-five, settled in his realty business in Sea-Clift, New Jersey, has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. But the…

Targeted at both travellers and ‘readers at home’, Richard Ford’s 1845 account of Spanish history, topography and culture combines the rigour of a gazetteer with the humour and pace of…