Sceptre: Hodder & Stoughton General Division, 2011. Paperback. The Sayles might not have been the only Jewish atheist communist family in Liverpool, but Alexei knew from an early age that they were one of the more eccentric. Born on the day egg rationing came to an end, Alexei was the... More
London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2016. Paperback. Enlightening ... Funny, smart, original and provocative ... It is hard to imagine the stalwarts of Mock the Week recognising the Druze militia leader Walid Jumblatt in a London cinema' New Statesman What I brought to comedy was an authentic working-class voice... More
London, United Kingdom: FABER & FABER, 2017. Paperback. The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age. In The Secret Life: Three True Stories, Andrew... More
London, United Kingdom: FABER & FABER, 2017. Paperback. The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age. In The Secret Life: Three True Stories, Andrew... More
London, United Kingdom: Oneworld Publications, 2016. Paperback. Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an anonymous message offering him access to secret data. Through encrypted channels, he then receives documents showing a mysterious bank transfer for $500 million in gold. This is just the beginning. Obermayer and fellow Suddeutsche... More
California, United States: Rare Bird Books, 43279. Hardback. From the author of Welcome to Paradise, Now Go To Hell, a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction It's no surprise that surfers like to party. The 1960-70s image, bolstered by Tom Wolfe and Big Wednesday, was one of... More
Seattle, United States: Michael Wiese Productions, 36069. Hardback. Shows how writers can use mythic structure to give coherence and weight to both narrative fiction and nonfiction | 400 pages | 165.1 x 228.6 x 19.05mm | 476.27g. More
London, United Kingdom: Penguin Books Ltd, 2012. -. -. Paperback. The phenomenal international bestseller - 2 million copies sold - that will change the way you make decisions 'A lifetime's worth of wisdom' Steven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics 'There have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality... More
New York, United States: The New York Review of Books, Inc, 2014. -. Reprint. Paperback. FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE PEN ART OF THE ESSAY AWARD Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn's reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New... More
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-: Back Bay Books, 1998. -. -. Paperback. In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean... More
United States: BACK BAY BOOKS, 2013. black & white illustrations. -. Paperback. Finally back in print--David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture. Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive... More
Abacus: Little, Brown Book Group, 41732. Paperback. A guy walks into a bar . . . From here the story could take many turns. A guy walks into a bar and meets the love of his life. A guy walks into a bar and finds no one else is there... More
New York, United States: Henry Holt & Company Inc, 1970. Hardback. Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived... More
London, United Kingdom: FABER & FABER, 2014. -. -. Paperback. At her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered publications during her too-short lifetime. The keen writings comprising Mystery and Manners... More
VINTAGE: Vintage Publishing, 42069. Paperback. THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER **WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR** **WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION** **WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ETRANGER** As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading... More
Vintage Books: Random House USA Inc, 2002. Paperback. National Bestseller In these coolly observant essays, Joan Didion looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life." Through the deconstruction of the sound bites and photo... More
London, United Kingdom: HarperCollins, 2017. -. FOURTH ESTATE LTD. Paperback. Joan Didion's savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could... More
New York, United States: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2008. Paperback. The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America--particularly California--in the sixties. It focuses on such subjects... More
-: Knopf Publishing Group, 2017. -. First edition, second printing. Hardback. From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always... More
Vintage Books: Random House USA Inc, 2004. Paperback. In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic's often... More
New York, United States: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2009. Reprint. Paperback. First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her... More
New York, United States: Random House USA Inc, 2007. -. First edition. First printing. Paperback. From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that... More
Hinsdale, United States: Dryden Press, 42475. Paperback. An economist of world renown, JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES was born in 1883 and educated at King's College, Cambridge. His two great works, "A Treatise on Money" (1930) and the revolutionary "General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money" (1936), were inspired by the employment... More
PICADOR: Pan MacMillan, 40913. Paperback. What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness. Along the way, Jon meets psychopaths, those whose lives have been touched by madness and those whose job it... More
New York, NY, United States: Penguin Putnam Inc, 2012. -. -. Paperback. The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory An instant bestseller that is poised to become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his... More
