Abrams Press imprint: 299 books
Georgia
In the Mountains of Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Georgia has been called the world’s most beautiful country, yet only little is known about it beyond its borders. This topical and vital book by the “ideal chronicler? (Literary Review) Peter Nasmyth is the perfect and much-celebrated introduction to its remarkable people, landscape, and culture.Over...
by Frank Turner
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
In the fall of 2005, Frank Turner was virtually unheard of. His rock band, Millions Dead, was finishing up a grueling tour and had agreed that their show on September 23 would be their last. The entry on the band's schedule for September 24 read simply: "Get a job."Cut to July 2012—the...
Hello World
Where Design Meets Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Our gadgets, appliances, and cars are sleeker and more elegant than they’ve ever been; in our free time, we trawl the internet for pictures of flawless minimalist interiors; and even the great industrialist of our time—Steve Jobs—is admired more for his visual savvy than his technological inventiveness....
Darling Monster
The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to Son John Julius Norwich, 1939-1952
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Lady Diana Cooper was an aristocrat, a socialite, an actress of stage and early screen. When she married rising political star Duff Cooper, they became the golden couple who knew everyone who was anyone; they sat at the very heart of British public life. Diana’s letters to her only son, John Julius...
by Barry Day
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
From the publisher of the acclaimed collector's Wodehouse editions, P.G. Wodehouse In His Own Words is a sparkling collection of excerpts from the master's own writings that reveals a wonderfully entertaining gloss on Wodehouse's own life story. Quotations from a literary career spanning more than...
Deadline Artists—Scandals, Tragedies & Triumphs
More of America's Greatest Newspaper Columns
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
An anthology of newspaper columns from the 19th century to the present—“engaging eyewitness pieces [that] elicit admiration, wonder and gasps of surprise” (Kirkus Reviews).
Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Columns drew together some of the finest examples of America’s greatest...
More Fool Me
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
By his early thirties, Stephen Fry—writer, comedian, star of stage and screen—had, as they say, “made it.? Much loved on British television, author of a critically acclaimed and bestselling first novel, with a glamorous and glittering cast of friends, he had more work than was perhaps good for...
by William S. Burroughs
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1993
Two shattering autobiographical novels offer a vision of alienated youth at its most raw and uncensored. "A compelling narrative that balances the methedrine horrors with the outcast’s romantic search for identity."—Rolling Stone.
David Bowie Made Me Gay
100 Years of LGBT Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
From Sia to Elton John, from Billie Holiday to David Bowie, LGBT musicians have changed the course of modern music. But before their music—and the messages behind it—gained understanding and a place in the mainstream, how did the queer musicians of yesteryear fight to build foundations for those...
Deadline Artists
America's Greatest Newspaper Columns
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Now in its fifth hardcover printing, Deadline Artists celebrates the relevance of the newspaper column through the simple power of excellent writing. It is an inspiration for a new generation of writers— whether their medium is print or digital—looking to learn from the best of their predecessors....
One Kiss or Two?
The Art and Science of Saying Hello
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Every encounter begins with a greeting, and different cultures have developed innumerable ways of showing pleasure at someone’s arrival. Humans have been greeting each other for thousands of years, so it should be the most straightforward thing in the world, but this seemingly simple act is fraught...
The English
A Portrait of a People
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2001
The acclaimed author of On Royalty explores the mysteries of English identity in this “witty, argumentative book bursting with good things” (The Daily Telegraph).
A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller
Being English used to be easy. As the dominant culture in a country that dominated...
by Emily Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
A true original, Gaga found fame the hard way, playing the grimy bars and burlesque shows of New York City, before finally relocating to Los Angeles to begin work on what would become her debut album The Fame. Constantly en vogue and always in the public eye, this is the biography of the rise of Gaga,...
The Olive Season
Amour, A New Life, and Olives, Too . . . !
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2004
The celebrated author of The Olive Farm once again proves to be “a storyteller of great economy and deftness” in this memoir of life in the South of France (The Daily Telegraph).
A critically acclaimed actress and star of the BBC series All Things Great and Small, Carol Drinkwater embarked...