The Man Who Was Thursday - Green Popular Penguins
G.K. Chestertons 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursda...
Something in the Blood - The Untold Story of Bram Stoke...
An essential examination (New York Times Book Review), t...
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, 3rd Edition - And Othe...
What happens when a young child is traumatized? How does ter...
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John Wayne: Western Triple (the Man Who Shot Liberty Va...
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The Man Who Was Thursday
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 Camel Who Crossed Australia
Third in Jackie Frenchs Animal Stars series, featuring the animals who contributed to historys most famous events. the story of the famous Burke and Wills expedition
as it has never been told before the humans called him Bell Sing, but to the other camels he is known as He Who Spits Further than the Wind. transported from the mountains and deserts of the Northwest Frontier (p...
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...
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...
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 ...
The Boy Who Set Sail on a Questionable Quest
Princess Lois has been kidnapped by Anatoly the Handsome, who wants to marry her. Cue damsel in distress to be rescued by none other than our own heroic Blart. He sets out on the good ship The Golden Pig with Olaf the innocent who believes what everyone says all the time and Kupverstich the Strange an explorer-come-scientist whose ingenious explanations for the natural world have one ...
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 Boy Who Cried Vampire - A Graphic Novel
In Transylvania, a boy cries
vampire! Young Ion is bored by life in the village. So to spice things up, the imaginative prankster runs false vampire drills, much to the annoyance of the villagers. But one night, a shadow passes by Ions window. This time its no joke. Its a REAL vampire! Have all of Ions fibs come back to bite him, or can the boy find a way out of this batty situation? In ...
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...
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 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...
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - The Mavericks who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
A magnificent story, brilliantly told. Read it! Anthony Horowitz Six gentlemen, one goal the destruction of Hitlers war machine In the spring of 1939, a top secret organisation was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitlers war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was to prove every bit as extraordinary as the ...
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...
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 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...
The Cow Who Climbed a Tree
Tina isnt like the other cows. She believes that the sky is the limit, that everything is possible. But her sisters arent convinced and when Tina tells them she has climbed a tree and met a dragon, they decide that her nonsense has gone too far. Off they go into the woods to find her
and soon discover a world of surprises! A richly atmospheric, thoughtful and funny picture book from rising...