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How does a Vogue model confront a double family suicide and live a normal life?
Now a major Channel 4 series: the true story of Rose's ten-year struggle with 'Pure O', which causes her to experience intense and intrusive sexual thoughts
Shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the 2018 Sports Book Awards, this is the biography of Laurie Cunningham, the first black footballer to play professionally for England
Scenes of Moderate Violence is the debut collection from award-winning poet John Moynes. If you think that modern literature doesn't include enough time-travelling cowboys, then this is the book for you. If you need poems about history, love, death, madness and the future then buy this book now. If you want a new pair of jeans you're probably in the wrong shop. With poems ranging from the funny to the frightening, this is a book that refuses to be pinned down - and is perfect for readers who do the same. *'John Moynes will make you laugh and make you think, and while he's at it he'll break your heart in a hundred different ways. Every poem in this collection is a thing of rare beauty. And so is each and every line. John manages to do that very difficult thing of being deeply wise while being deeply funny. And I deeply hate him for that.'Paul Howard, author of the Ross O'Carroll Kelly series
An exquisite and original take on the family saga, from the PEN Ackerley Prize-winning Alice Jolly
Longlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize21st-Century Yokel is not quite nature writing, not quite a family memoir, not quite a book about walking, not quite a collection of humorous essays, but a bit of all five.Thick with owls and badgers, oak trees and wood piles, scarecrows and ghosts, and Tom Cox's loud and excitable dad, this book is full of the folklore of several counties - the ancient kind and the everyday variety - as well as wild places, mystical spots and curious objects. Emerging from this focus on the detail are themes that are broader and bigger and more important than ever.Tom's writing treads a new path, one that has a lot in common with a rambling country walk; it's bewitched by fresh air and big skies, intrepid in minor ways, haunted by weather and old stories and the spooky edges of the outdoors, restless and prone to a few detours, but it always reaches its destination in the end.
'A remarkable act of imagination and filial homage' William Boyd, New StatesmanIn November 1944, Sub Lt Bob Clark, a twenty-year old agent with Britain's top-secret Special Operations Executive, parachuted into northern Italy. He left behind the girl he had fallen in love with, Marjorie, his radio operator. Captured by the enemy, Bob's fate hung in the balance and Marjorie wouldn't know for six months whether he was alive or dead...Monopoli Blues recounts the story of Tim Clark's journey to uncover the story of his parents' war - and the truth behind the betrayal of his father's Clarion mission to the Nazis.
A search for the meaning of the American West, told through extraordinary images by acclaimed photographer Sarah Lee
a triumphant coming of age tale about the power of being true to yourself' - Juno Dawson_________________Charlie Matthews' love story begins in a pebble-dashed house in suburban Bolton, at a time when most little boys want to grow up to be Michael Jackson, and girls want to be Princess Di.
A kaleidoscopic historical novel based on unpublished material by Anthony Burgess, from the prize-winning author Adam Roberts
The definitive study of the SF giant's life and work, from Hugo Award-winning critic and historian Farah Mendlesohn
A foodie One Day: the bittersweet story of two Michelin star-crossed lovers set at a Brighton hotel
If you think the groves of academe are all stuffiness, elbow patches and greying old men... think again.Academia Obscura is an irreverent glimpse inside the ivory tower, exposing the eccentric and slightly unhinged world of university life. Take a trip through the spectrum of academic oddities and unearth the Easter eggs buried in peer reviewed papers, the weird and wonderful world of scholarly social media, and rats in underpants.Procrastinating PhD student Glen Wright invites you to peruse his cabinet of curiosities and discover what academics get up to when no one's looking. Welcome to the hidden silly side of higher education.
Now Gawain must complete his part of the bargain, search for his foe and confront what seems his doom... Michael Smith's translation of this magnificent Arthurian romance draws on his intimate experience of the North West of England and his knowledge of mediaeval history, culture and architecture.
Find Your Purpose. But Don't Lose Your Mind.
Sheila Parry, strategic consultant to the likes of Adidas and Siemens, lays out a fresh approach to organisations that aims to make work a better place for everyone
Meet Tabitha Gray, a delusional girl from Topanga, California, who redefines what it means to be a truly hopeless romantic. Tabby suffers from an aggressive strain of cock-eyed optimism - no amount of failure, embarrassment or humiliation can dent her fierce belief that real, true, lasting love is just around the corner.Where most people think, fantasise and dream, Tabby says, feels and does. Whether waiting in her lingerie for Harrison Ford to open the door of his hotel room; following Al Pacino around a Russianbathhouse; seeking passion with a blind man on the advice of a wise old woman with dementia; or sending intimate photos to a random sexter with an apparently charming dick, Tabby refuses to be crushed by her many misadventures.In this warmly witty debut novel, Sophie Kipner takes a satirical look at the extremity of romantic desperation, and pays tribute to the deep human need to keep on heroically searching for love despite our many absurdities.
The trees are disappearing and the adults seem unconcerned. Toletis, his dog Amenophis, friends Claudia and Tutan are on a mission to find ingenious ways of replacing them and turning their little valley town, set deep in the mountains, lusciously green again.
'If you know me atall, you will know me as a liar.'Kevin Carver is ahousehold name. A popular TV soap star, he's coasting through life in the samesemi-detached, slightly smug way he's always done.But when he callouslydumps his much younger girlfriend Jade over supper one evening, he makes thefirst in a series of catastrophic mistakes.One poor decisionleads to another and soon his whole life begins to unravel. He finds himselfthe subject of vitriolic press attacks, a police investigation and so muchpublic loathing that he starts to wonder if he has any chance of receiving afair trial. As the line blurs between his own life and that of the character heplays on TV, Kevin is forced to confront a lifetime of inadequacy in order toredeem himself.The Star Witness is the story of one man's descent intodisgrace and his journey to rejoin the human race. This pin-sharp satire on theshallows of modern media culture will keep you laughing, cringing and guessinguntil the very last page.
A Country of Refuge is a poignant, thought-provoking and timely anthology of writing on asylum seekers from some of Britain and Ireland's most influential voices.Compiled and edited by human rights activist and writer Lucy Popescu, this powerful collection of short fiction, memoir, poetry and essays explores what it really means to be a refugee: to flee from conflict, poverty and terror; to have to leave your home and family behind; and to undertake a perilous journey, only to arrive on less than welcoming shores.These writings are a testament to the strength of the human spirit. The contributors articulate simple truths about migration that will challenge the way we think about and act towards the dispossessed and those forced to seek a safe place to call home.
Windsor Castle. 1714. Queen Anne is nearing the end of a life filled with tragedy and grief: plagued by illness and cursed by her father to lose all 17 of her children, she now lies dying with no living heir.The question of succession is thick in the air. Will it be James Stuart, the half-brother she has always refused to acknowledge? Or George of Hanover, the cousin who once turned her down for marriage?Neither is ideal: she hates them both.Over the course of one night at the Queen's Elizabethan ball, courtiers, politicians and ladies' maids alike seize the opportunity to steer the succession to their own advantage, changing the course of history forever. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to them, imperial spy Daniel Defoe creeps through the castle gathering intelligence on their every move for the Earl of Oxford.Before the night is over, Queen Anne will finally have to face the past-for nothing can be resolved until she comes to terms with her children's deaths and repairs the terrible wrong she committed many years before...
Let legendary rock manager Simon Napier-Bell take you inside the (dodgy) world of popular music - not just a creative industry, but a business that has made people rich beyond their wildest dreams.He balances seductive anecdotes - pulling back the curtain on the gritty and absurd side of the industry - with an insightful exploration of the relationship between creativity and money. This book describes the evolution of the industry from 1713 - the year parliament granted writers ownership over what they wrote - to today, when a global, 100 billion pound industry is controlled by just three major players: Sony, Universal and Warner. Inside you will uncover some little-known facts about the industry, including:How a formula for writing hit songs in the 1900s helped create 50,000 of the best-known songs of all time.How infighting in the American pre-war music industry shut down traditional radio and created an opening for country music, race records and rock'n'roll.How Jewish immigrants and black jazz musicians dancing cheek-to-cheek created a template for all popular music that followed.How rock tours became the biggest, quickest, sleaziest and most profitable ventures the music industry has ever seen.After reading Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay, you'll never listen to music in the same way again.
When David Bramwell's girlfriend left him for someone she described as 'younger, but more mature than you', he decided he had something to learn about giving. Taking a year off, he journeyed through Europe and America seeking out extraordinary communities that could teach him how to share. He wanted answers to a few troubling questions: Is modern life rubbish? Why do so many of us feel lonely and unfulfilled despite a high standard of living? Are there communities out there who hold the key to happiness? And if so, why do so many of their inhabitants insist on dressing in tie-dye? His quest led him to an anarchist haven in the heart of Copenhagen; some hair-raising experiences in free love communities; an epiphany in a spiritual caravan park in Scotland and an apparent paradise in a Californian community dreamed up by Aldous Huxley. Most impressive of all was Damanhur, a 1000-strong science fiction- style community in the Alps with an underground temple the size of St Paul's Cathedral, a village of tree houses and a 'fully-functioning time machine'. Inspired, he returned home with a desire to change. Not just himself but also his neighbourhood and city. Find out how he succeeded in this wry and self-deprecatingly funny spiritual journey that asks some big questions and finds the answers surprisingly simple.
The thing is, while she knows that she's very different from other teenagers, she doesn't know quite how different...yet. She is soon sent to live with her Grandmother where, after making some unusual new friends, she begins a dangerous quest to unravel the mysteries of her identity.
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