Russell Mockridge - The Man In Front
In September 1958, only minutes into a professional road rac...
My World on Wheels - the posthumous autobiography of Ru...
Shy and bespectacled Russell Mockridge was the black sheep o...
The Man from Talalaivka - A story of love, life and los...
The Man from Talalaivka is the gripping story of a man torn ...
The North Water - Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2...
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A NEW YORK TIMES TO...
The North Water - Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2...
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A NEW YORK TIMES T...
Something in the Blood - The Untold Story of Bram Stoke...
An essential examination (New York Times Book Review), t...
Autumn - SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 SUNDAY TIMES TOP ...
Exit West - SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A Barack Obama top...
Russell Mockridge - The Man In Front
Swing Time - LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Smiths finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous Observer Superb Financial Times Breathtaking TLS Pitch-perfect Daily TelegraphA tale of two girls who meet in a West London dance class
A page-turner thats also beautifully written GlamourThere is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith Telegra...
Swing Time - LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Smiths finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous Observer Superb Financial Times Breathtaking TLS Pitch-perfect Daily TelegraphA tale of two girls who meet in a West London dance class
A page-turner thats also beautifully written GlamourThere is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith Telegra...
The Man Who Climbs Trees
A book of heart-stopping bravery and endurance Helen Macdonald A great read incredible adventures and a dramatic new perspective Chris Packham (A) delightful, endlessly fascinating book Daily Mail BOOK OF THE WEEK This is the story of a professional British tree climber, cameraman and adventurer, who has made a career out of travelling the world, filming wildlife for the ...
Something in the Blood - The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
An essential examination (New York Times Book Review), this revelatory biography exhumes the haunted origins of the man behind the immortal myth. In this sumptuous (Publishers Weekly) portrait of the man who birthed an undying cultural icon, David J. Skal pulls back the curtain to reveal the author who dreamed up this vampire (Time). A fascinating character whose own anxieties and ...
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton A mans brain is a bomb, he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A mans brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Sym...
Autumn - SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER In a country apparently divided against itself, a writer such as Smith is more valuable than a whole parliament of politicians Financial Times Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting The Times A beautiful, poignant symphony of memories, dreams and transient realities
The ...
Elmet - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettable The Economist A cleverly constructed rural Gothic fable . . . Elmet is a marvellous achievement TLS Pastoral idyll, political expose, cosy family saga and horror tale, it reads like a traditional childrens story that turns into a gangster film: Hansel and Gretel meets The Godfather S...
Elmet - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettable The Economist A cleverly constructed rural Gothic fable . . . Elmet is a marvellous achievement TLS Pastoral idyll, political expose, cosy family saga and horror tale, it reads like a traditional childrens story that turns into a gangster film: Hansel and Gretel meets The Godfather S...
The Sellout - WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016
`Outrageous, hilarious and profound. Simon Schama, Financial Times `The longer you stare at Beattys pages, the smarter youll get. Guardian `The most badass first 100 pages of an American novel Ive read. New York Times A biting satire about a young mans isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his g...
Exit West - SHORTLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A Barack Obama top ten book of 2017 WINNER of the LA Times Prize for Fiction * WINNER of the Aspen Words Literary Prize Astonishing Zadie Smith * Stunning Spectator * Extraordinary TLS An extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist This is Nadia. She is fiercely i...
Frankenstein in Baghdad - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION Extraordinary
A devastating but essential read. Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds Gripping, darkly humorous
profound. Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment From the rubble-strewn str...
A Little Life - Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015
WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE 2015 & SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 Astonishing and unsettling
A masterwork San Francisco Chronicle A book that demands to be read. Wall Street Journal A Little Life is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to ma...
The Man Who Listens to Horses
Monty Roberts is a real-life horse whisperer-an American original whose gentle Join-Up® training method reveals the depth of communication possible between man and animal. He can take a wild, high-strung horse who has never before been handled and persuade that horse to accept a bridle, saddle, and rider in thirty minutes. His powers may seem like magic, but his amazing horse sense is based o...
The Man Who Was Thursday - Green Popular Penguins
G.K. Chestertons 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a detective story filled with poetry and politics. Gabriel Syme is a poet and a police detective. Lucian Gregory is a poet and a bomb-throwing anarchist. Syme infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists and becomes Thursday, one of the seven members of the Central Anarchist Council. He soon learns, ho...
The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses
The perfect collectors item a beautiful facsimile edition of A. B. Banjo Patersons classic ballads, published by Angus & Robertson during World War One as a gift from home to the soldier in the trenches. The Man From Snowy River, published in 1917 while Banjo Paterson was on active duty in the Middle East, includes his arguably most famous ballad. Some of the verses, as a note from Pat...
The Man In The High Castle
Dicks best work, and the most memorable alternative world tale
ever written SCIENCE FICTION: THE 100 BEST NOVELS It is 1962 and the Second World War has been over for seventeen years: people have now had a chance to adjust to the new order. But its not been easy. The Mediterranean has been drained to make farmland, the population of Africa has virtually been wiped out and America has bee...
Lincoln in the Bardo - WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 A STORY OF LOVE AFTER DEATH `A masterpiece Zadie Smith`Extraordinary Daily Mail`Breathtaking Observer`A tour de force The Sunday Times The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil W...
Winter - from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 The dazzling second novel in Ali Smiths essential Seasonal Quartet from the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and How to be both Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summers leaves? Dead litter. ...
Iron Ambition - Lessons I've Learned from the Man Who Made Me a Champion
The key to Mike Tysons unprecedented success in the ring and in overcoming the demons that success laid in his path was his relationship with Cus DAmato. When the well-past-his-prime boxing trainer and 13 year old felon met, DAmato saw his one last shot at glory and redemption via the young thug. IRON AMBITION is the epic story of that five year relationship as well as a guide to the lesson...
The Man in the High Castle
NOW AN AMAZON ORIGINAL SERIES Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find. America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese. But between these two states locked in a cold war lies a neutal buffer zone in which legendary author Hawthorne ...
The Man from Talalaivka - A story of love, life and loss from Ukraine
The Man from Talalaivka is the gripping story of a man torn between love for his country and the harsh reality of totalitarian rule
The story of a man forced to change countries through the battles of two totalitarian tyrants
In an idyllic Kylapchin village, 200 kilometres north-east of Kiev, in Ukraines Sumskaya Oblast, a young mans life was overturned by the brutality of the Stalinist reg...