"A High Wind in Jamaica is not so much a book as a curious object, like a piece of driftwood torqued into an alarming shape from years at sea. And like driftwood, it seems not to have been made, exactly, but simply to have come into being, so perfectly is its form married to its content. The five Bas-Thornton children must leave their parents in Jamaica after a terrible hurricane blows down their family home. Accompanied by their C ..."
In Hazard(1st Edition) (New York Review Books Classics) by RichardHughes, John Crowley Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2008 by Nyrb Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-272-8, ISBN: 1-59017-272-8
"The Archimedes is a modern merchant steamship in tip-top condition, and in the summer of 1929 it has been picking up goods along the eastern seaboard of the United States before making a run to China. A little overloaded, perhapsâthe oddly assorted cargo includes piles of old newspapers and heaps of tobaccoâthe ship departs for the Panama Canal from Norfolk, Virginia, on a beautiful autumn day. Before long, the weather turns un ..."
"A tale of enormous suspense and growing horror, The Fox in the Attic is the widely acclaimed first part of Richard Hughes's monumental historical fiction, "The Human Predicament." Set in the early Twenties, the book centers on Augustine, a young man from an aristocratic Welsh family, and on his struggle to make sense of the world, devastated by the Great War, in which he is condemned to come to maturity. Unjustly suspected of having had ..."
"The Wooden Shepherdess is the sequel to The Fox in the Attic, and the second volume of Richard Hughes’s monumental historical fiction, “The Human Predicament.” It opens with Hughes’s hero Augustine in prohibition era America, where he is a bemused onlooker and an increasingly fascinated participant in a country intoxicated with sex, violence, and booze. In brilliant cinematic style, the book then moves to Germany, where the Nazi P ..."
"The first edition of Sterile Processing, Invisible Culture was an instant hit among techs, as it peered behind the scenes into the hidden world of a healthcare career that has long been past due to receive its well-deserved recognition. Sterile processing techs the world over have been wondering why, even in the 21st century, with robotic and laparoscopic instruments taking center stage in the surgical theater, the average lay person ST ..."
"Based on the original 1940s comics stories, Book 1 expands on the origins of The Black Terror and his sidekick Tim as well as the Terror Twins' first pre-WWII adventures battling crime and corruption in Standard City."
Hahnemann as a Medical Philosopher; The Organon Being the Second Hahnemannian Lecture, 1881 (Classic Reprint) (Paperback) by RichardHughes Paperback, Published 2015 by Forgotten Books, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-330-66441-4, ISBN: 1-330-66441-8
A Weight Off My Mind My Autobiography (Paperback) by RichardHughes Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2013 by Racing Post Books ISBN-13: 978-1-908216-75-5, ISBN: 1-908216-75-1
"Richard Hughes is not only one of horseracing's most successful and talented riders, but also one of sport's most unlikely success stories. This book tells his story."
Fox in the Attic by RichardHughes Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2012 by Atlantic ISBN-13: 978-1-84887-979-9, ISBN: 1-84887-979-2
"Augustine is a young man from an aristocratic family, struggling to make sense of a world devastated by the Great War. The enemy abroad may have been defeated, but when he finds himself implicated in the death of a young girl, he becomes targeted as the enemy within. Fleeing Britain, Augustine seeks refuge and solace in the remote castle of Bavarian relatives; but what he finds is a hinterland of fierce lust and terrible darkness; a par ..."
The Fox in the Attic (Paperback) by RichardHughes Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2011 by Atlantic Books, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-84887-978-2, ISBN: 1-84887-978-4
"A haunting tale of unrequited love, and a remarkable crystallisation of a singular moment in history - when Germany teetered on the brink of Nazism."
"In the night of the 15th of January 1343, while the inhabitants of Naples lay wrapped in peaceful slumber, they were suddenly awakened by the bells of the three hundred churches that this thrice blessed capital contains. In the midst of the disturbance caused by so rude a call the first bought in the mind of all was that the town was on fire, or that the army of some enemy had mysteriously landed under cover of night and could put the ..."
A High Wind in Jamaica(Updated) by RichardHughes Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1994 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-00-271312-2, ISBN: 0-00-271312-8
Isla Grande by RichardHughes Paperback, 215 Pages, Published 1994 by Silver Mountain Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-883721-10-7, ISBN: 1-883721-10-5
"SIGNED BY AUTHOR, FIRST EDITION.1994 Silver Mountain Press trade paperback, Richard Hughes. Twenty-year-old Roger Lord, an American college student, is in a quandary when he learns that his parents have disappeared. The Lords operate a small tourist hotel on Panama's Isla Grande and have been missing for over three weeks. Roger, the quintessential naive gringo, arrives in Panama totally unprepared to conduct an investigation; he is incr ..."
Foreign Devil(Updated) Thirty Years of Reporting from the Far East by RichardHughes Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1986 by Pimlico Import ISBN-13: 978-0-7126-0933-3, ISBN: 0-7126-0933-4