Bingham: 193 books

A dozen “vibrant . . . strikingly perceptive” stories about love—romantic, familial, comedic, and tragic, by the celebrated novelist and playwright (Booklist). Crossing a range of landscapes and eras, spanning age and gender, and circling taboos with a sly wit, “these 12 luminous stories...

The deliciously funny confessions of a debutante which became an international bestseller Fresh from convent school, Charlotte Bingham finds herself propelled from the private tortures of dancing class to the very public horrors of The Season. Though desperately on the hunt for a Superman to...

In the seventeenth century, English Baptists existed on the fringe of the nation's collective religious life. Today, Baptists have developed into one of the world's largest Protestant denominations. Despite this impressive transformation, those first English Baptists remain chronically misunderstood....

"If you've ever thought seriously, or for that matter just fantasized, about getting away from it all, going off-grid...this book is a must read." The Fethiye Times I couldn't teach another lesson. Nor could I tolerate another day with a boss, a punch card, and the indigestion I suffered from...

A series with 100s of 5-star reviews, 100,000+ copies sold, and now a major TV adaptation. BRAND NEW box set includes 'Crime Book of the Year' (Boston Globe & Seattle Times) TALKING TO THE DEAD (Book 1) “Gritty, compelling . . . a procedural unlike any other you are likely to read this...

On a sunny day in June at the beach with her mom and brother fifteen-year-old Jane Arrowood went for a swim. And then everything absolutely everything changed. Now shes counting down the days until she returns to school with her fake arm where she knows kids will whisper "Thats her thats Shark...

Adventures into another world, stories of mystery and wonder, these are what fascinated and excited Clive. He was just a boy but would sit for hours writing stories where animals came to life and lived and spoke just like human beings. This little boy grew up to become the world famous writer C. S. Lewis....

FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY JOHN LE CARRÉ "This novel comprises some of the best work of an extremely gifted and perhaps under-regarded British crime novelist....What gave John Bingham his magic was something we look for in every writer, too often in vain: an absolute command of the internal...

This account of the first president’s trip to unite a young America “follows Washington’s travels day-by-day with detailed information about each stop” (Daily Herald). Newly elected president George Washington set out to visit the new nation aware that he was the singular unifying figure...

Joint winner of the 2014 ONE BIG BOOK LAUNCH (London). 'Beautifully written.' Sarah Juckes, Completely Novel 'Atulya K. Bingham has breathed new life into one of Turkey's most beautiful surviving outposts of accessible mountain wilderness.' Hugh Pope, Today's Zaman. 'If...

I was almost 40 years old and with nothing to show for it. No partner. No career. I'd just sunk that well and truly. Now having reached a crescendo of desperation, I was pitching a tent halfway up a Turkish mountain, because I just couldn't think what else to do. But it was another world up...

Now an HBO film! Catch the premiere this fall. In 1966 Muhammad Ali announced his intention to refuse induction into the United States Army as a conscientious objector. This set off a five-year battle that would strip him of his world heavyweight title, bar him from boxing, and nearly send...

September 11, 2001 changed the world and changed the United States. But most of all, it changed the men and women who were sent to Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein and his brutal regime and to bring freedom to the Iraqi people under his rule. This is the story of one combat medic and his journey to and...

A bold portrait of Doris Duke, the defiant and notorious tobacco heiress who was perhaps the greatest modern woman philanthropist “Don’t touch that girl, she’ll burn your fingers,” the FBI director J. Edgar Hoover once said about Doris Duke, the inheritor of James Buchanan Duke’s...