shopping cart
Save up to 30% on our Staff Picks
Call us:  800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.

Find Books


Read the City


Win Free Books!


PowellsBooks.news


Original Essays | October 18, 2009

Victoria Hislop: IMG From Leprosy to Lorca — Strange Inspiration



My first novel, The Island, was inspired by a chance visit to a tiny island leper colony off the coast of Greece on our summer holiday. It was a... Continue »
  1. $10.49 Sale Trade Paper add to wish list

    The Return

    Victoria Hislop

Customer Comments

mcnearne has commented on (2) products.

Frank O'Hara: Selected Poems by Frank O'hara
Frank O'Hara: Selected Poems

mcnearne, September 29, 2008

Where have I been all my life? How could I have missed this? I was 26 when he died, but that is no excuse.
Was this comment helpful? | Yes | No
(1 of 2 readers found this comment helpful)



ManBug by George K Ilsley
ManBug

mcnearne, September 7, 2006

Fun. Sharp.Insightful. I could not put it down. Should be read outloud alternatly to each other by two who are "chesting". I am going hunting for the first book by this guy and am waiting for the next.
Was this comment helpful? | Yes | No
(3 of 5 readers found this comment helpful)



  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.