Category Archives: Travel Guides
Tel Aviv Noir
Tel Aviv is in many ways the cultural capital of Israel, and it is home to many of the country`s best writers. This unparalleled collection gives insight into the daily life of Israelis, albeit through a noir lens. In spite of its outwardly warm and polite exterior, Tel Aviv has quite a bit to hide
Montreal Noir
Montreal is noir, the birthplace of Leonard Cohen, Saul Bellow, Michel Tremblay, Mordecai Richler, and Oscar Peterson. It`s unsettling, it`s subversive, it`s palpable, but it`s never obvious. Montreal`s long history is dominated by cultures coming together, almost. And coming apart, almost. And continuing, always. Here, French and English writers explore the underside of the Sin
Manila Noir
Manila is not for the faint of heart. Population: over ten million and growing by the minute. Climate: hot, humid and prone to torrential monsoon rains of biblical proportions. The ultimate femme fatale, she`s complicated and mysterious, with a tainted, painful past. The perfect, torrid setting for noir. Edited by `Dogeaters` author Jessica Hagedorn, and
Buffalo Noir
Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Block and others present original stories from the dark side of New York`s second largest city in this instalment of Akashic`s Noir series. Anyone who has spent more than a few days in Buffalo will tell you that this city can spar with any other major American metropolis in the noir
USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir Series
Launched with the 2004 award-winning bestseller `Brooklyn Noir`, Akashic Books has published over 60 volumes in its ground-breaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighbourhood or location within the city of the book. After nine years, hundreds of short stories from the world`s
New Orleans Noir: The Classics
The sequel to `New Orleans Noir`, one of the Noir series` top sellers, now in its fourth printing.New Orleans` tremendous literary tradition shines bright in this outstanding collection of stories from some of the best writers in American history. Julie Smith has masterfully curated this volume with stories published as early as 1843 and as
Haiti Noir: The Classics: Vol. 2
Top stories from the original best-selling `Haiti Noir` along with all new stories by today`s best Haitian authors. This new volume collects the true classics of Haitian literature – both short stories and excerpts from longer works – and will be an integral piece to the understanding of how Haitian culture has evolved over the
Singapore Noir
Say `Singapore` to anyone and you`ll likely hear one of a few words: Caning. Fines. Chewing gum. For much of the West, the narrative of Singapore has been marked largely by its government`s strict laws and unwavering enforcement of them. Yet there are many quirky and dark complexities of Singapore that rarely seem to make
Helsinki Noir
The excitement around Scandinavian crime fiction has focused largely on Sweden, but Finland – as poignantly revealed here – is equally dark, grisly and strong in the noir department. Helsinki`s endless bays and islands offer a killer plenty of places to dump a body and, because winter days can often contain less than six hours
Belfast Noir
Few European cities have had as disturbed and violent a history as Belfast over the last half-century. For much of that time the Troubles (1968-1998) dominated life in Ireland`s second largest city, and during the darkest days of the conflict – in the 1970s and 1980s – riots, bombings and indiscriminate shootings were tragically commonplace.
Chicago Noir: The Classics
Nelson Algren, Richard Wright and Patricia Highsmith are just three of the iconic authors included in this outstanding volume, which reprints classic noir stories from writers with a Chicago connection. Although Los Angeles may be considered the most quintessentially `noir` American city, this volume reveals that pound-for-pound, Chicago has historically been able to stand up
Marseille Noir
Marseille provides magnificent material for writing. For a long time, when it still had its eye on the sea, it was in fact a veritable `open city` for writers on shore leave. It welcomed the greatest globe-trotting writers in transit, advocates of a vagabond literature that turned Marseille into one of the capitals of `world
Stockholm Noir
`Stockholm Noir` joins `Copenhagen Noir` and `Helsinki Noir` in representing the Akashic Noir Series in Scandinavia.The excitement around Scandinavian crime fiction coming in the wake of `The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo` has been largely centered on Sweden – and for good reason, as revealed here. The chill of the country`s northern climate combines with
St. Louis Noir
Edited by the bestselling author of `The Ice Harvest`, `St. Louis Noir` thickens the Midwest quotient for Akashic`s Noir series.Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighbourhood or location within the city of the book. In the wake of
Pigology: The Ultimate Encyclopedia
Everything you wanted to know about pigs, including information on various pigs raised as pets, for food, and farm animals. Pigology is a playful and illuminating book that provides detailed information about all things pigs in five informative chapters. Discover the world of pigs, and read their ancient history, and an ancient mystery. There are
Mumbai Noir
Following the Bombay Communal Riots of 1992 which saw neighbour pitched against neighbour in fierce bouts of internecine violence, came the retaliatory bomb blasts of 1993 and the name change to Mumbai in 1995. Mumbai Noir captures the essence of a city dominated by wealth and the lack of it, where the shadowy aspects of
Venice Noir
Venturing beyond St. Mark`s Place, the Doges Palace, the Rialto Bridge and all across the still but deadly waters of the lagoon, stories from writers from all corners of the globe evoke the magic, the decay and the beauty and despair of a city that has always fascinated its hordes of visitors. A dizzy waltz
Kingston Noir
Kingston is a place of fascinating beauty and startling poverty. Located on one of the biggest (and greyest) harbours in the world and ringed by low green hills, this city of over a million likes to get its ganja from the farm to the table. It was founded by the survivors of a quake that
