Charlie is a crime writer, part-time thief--and an amateur magician. He breaks into a conjurer's hotel room and makes a safe full of casino chips vanish into thin air. When the victim disappears, Charlie is suspected of being his accomplice at cheating the roulette tables.

You can't keep a good thief down... Charlie Howard is back and robbing the city of Berlin blind, until he witnesses a murder being committed right before his eyes Charlie Howard, part-time writer, part-time thief, has been engaged in a veritable spree of larceny and misappropriation since moving to Berlin, Germany. He's supposed to be working on his next novel. But high rent and a love for thrill-seeking has been hard on his word count. But Charlie's...

We all carry people inside our heads—actors, leaders, writers, people out of history or fiction, met or unmet, who sometimes seem closer to us than people we know.
 
In The Man Within My Head, Pico Iyer sets out to unravel the mysterious closeness he has always felt with the English writer Graham Greene; he examines Greene’s obsessions, his elusiveness, his penchant for mystery. Iyer follows Greene’s trail from...

Biography of English author Roald Dahl who wrote the children's story Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Discusses how Dicken's helped the poor street children in London by writing about what he saw to cause reform.