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Angels
'A dazzling and savage first novel' New York Times Angels tells the story of two born losers. Jamie has ditched her husband and is running away with her two baby girls. Bill is dreaming of making it big in a life of crime. They meet on a Greyhound bus and decide to team up. So begins a stunning, tragi...
Rabbit Is Rich
It�s 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He�s walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That�s OK, though - it gives him the chance to enjoy the wealth that comes with middle age. It�s all in place: he�s Chief Sales Representative and co-owner of Springer motors; his wife, at home or in the club, i...
For Esme - with Love and Squalor
"For Esme With Love and Squalor" includes two of Salinger's most famous and critically acclaimed stories, and helped to establish him as one of the contemporary literary greats. The title story recounts a Sergeant's meeting with a young girl before being sent into combat. When it was first published in ...
Future Shock
Examines the effects of rapid industrial and technological changes upon the individual, the family, and society....
Our Australian Girl: Letty on the Land (Book 3)
It's1841 . . . and if Letty wants to keep her job she must travel with her mistress to a sheep farm in the Blue Mountains, leaving her sister Lavinia behind in Sydney. Letty has heard that the bush is a wild place, full of strange beasts and dangers, not to mention the bushrangers who hide out in it. ...
You Can Negotiate Anything
Herb Cohen believes the world is a giant negotiating table and, like it or not, you're a negotiator. Whether you're dealing with your spouse, boss, department store, bank manager, children, solicitor, or best friend - in every encounter with other people, negotiating is always taking place. And how well...
The Singing Ape (The Lost World Circus #2)
Colt Lawless is on the run, suddenly famous, and more than a little superhuman. But can he save the last animals on earth? Caruso, the singing gibbon, has been sneaking out of his cage at night, and Colt thinks he knows why. Ever since he joined the Lost World Circus, he's been able to do all kinds of i...
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
You've seen it all before. A malicious online rumor costs a company millions. A political sideshow derails the national news cycle and destroys a candidate. Some product or celebrity zooms from total obscurity to viral sensation. What you don't know is that someone is responsible for all this. Usually, ...
Everest - The First Ascent: The Untold Story of Griffith Pugh, the Man Who Made it Possible
This is the winner of the 2013 Boardman Tasker prize winner of the 2013 mountain & wilderness prize, Banff festival. For the first time, drawing upon previously unseen diaries and letters, rare archive material and interviews, Everest - The First Ascent tells the remarkable story of Griffith Pugh, t...
Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword
In the century since its birth, the crossword has evolved into the world's most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay, the codes and conventions of which are open to anyone masochistic enough to get addicted. In Two Girls, One on Each Knee, Alan Connor celebrates the wit, ingenuity and...
Quick, Let's Get Out of Here
I was so angry with my brother, for getting me into trouble. Inside I was bubbling. So . . . The annoying things your brother does, the embarrassing things your parents say and the funny things you feel. Michael Rosen knows all about YOU! Look inside and see if he's spotted your deepest, darkest secrets...
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
This is Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. Acclaimed and beloved travel writer Paul Theroux turns his attention to his own country - America - for the first time in Deep South. For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth - to China, India, Africa, the Pacific Islan...
The Heat of Betrayal
Robin knew Paul wasn't perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true. In the heady strangeness of Morocco, he is everything she wants him to be - passionate, talented, knowledgeable. She is convinced that it is here she will finally become pregnant. But w...
Sleeping Giants (#1 Themis Files)
A page-turning debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery--and a fight to control a gargantuan power. A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through th...
Scarface Claw, Hold Tight! (HB)
It is a peaceful morning and Scarface Claw is happily snoozing in a spot in the sun, tail curled around and feet tucked in. Suddenly, there was a shudder and sway, the whirr of an engine, then off and away. And then off goes the truck down the drive - with Scarface ON TOP! Clinging on to the roof of the...
Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton; Angus Gowland (Editor)
A new Penguin Classics edition of Burton's masterpiece - ostensibly a guidebook to melancholia or depression, in reality an all-encompassing examination of the human condition. The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the 17th-century English priest and scholar. It 'opens an...
Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home
A powerful memoir from Natalie Golderg--the woman who changed the way writing is taught in this country--sharing her experience with cancer grounded in her practice of writing and Zen. A moving and clear-looking memoir on being in love with your life even when life brings illness, from longtime Zen prac...
No Dream Is Too High - Life Lessons from a Man Who Walked on the Moon
Ken (CON) Buzz; Abraham Aldrin
Half a century after walking on the Moon. Buzz Aldrin speaks from the heart-to those who remember that historic moment and to the younger generations who revere him as an American hero. With vivid personal anecdotes, told with wit and nuance, Buzz shares 13 rules to live by, including "The sky is not th...
How To Eat The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food
Relax and relish Nigella Lawson's delicious prose in her first, revelatory cookery book, published in Vintage Classics for the first time to celebrate twenty years of How to Eat.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JEANETTE WINTERSON'How to eat, how to cook, how to write- I want two copies of this book, one to refer...
Ultimatum
SIS agent Luke Carlton returns in the explosive, action-packed and unerringly authentic new thriller from BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner, author of the acclaimed No.1 bestseller Crisis . . . Deep within a cave system at the Iranian military complex of Parchin, south-east of Tehran, and hidden ...
Wreck This Picture Book
Keri Smith, creator of the mega-bestselling Wreck This Journal, now brings her imagination and inspiration to children with this picture book that explores the very active experience of reading. What if there were a book that changed every time you read it? Actually, every book does this. We are all p...
Design the Home You Love: Practical Styling Advice to Make the Most of Your Space
Ever wonder how designers create such beautiful spaces? The co-founders of Havenly unpack all the styling fundamentals to create a personal and inspired home designed for actually living. Traditional interior design often brings to mind fancy estates and expensive renovations, and as a result most o...
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Trinity in Tempest (Manga) 6
The new spinoff manga to the hit fantasy isekai series, developed by original creator Fuse! Against the odds, the little slime Rimiru has established his magical kingdom for all monsters, called Tempest, and it's thriving. But three visitors, Phos the fox girl, Stella the dragon girl, and Nemu the winge...
The Original Rider Waite: The Pictorial Key To The Tarot
Picture your fate, forecast your future and transform your fortuneAn illustrated guide to the world famous Original Rider Waite Tarot - the most popular deck in the world.Unlock the secrets of the tarot with renowned scholar of the occult, A E Waite. Featuring the original card artwork by Pamela Colman ...
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