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Florence
A Delicate Case
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The third in the critically acclaimed Writer and the City Series - in which some of the world's finest novelists reveal the secrets of the cities they know best - Florence is a lively account of expatriate life in the 'city of the lily'.
Why has Florence always drawn so many English and American...
A Year to Remember
A Reminiscence of 1931
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
First published in 1975, this tells of one of the Bright Young Things in that brilliant and stimulating era between the wars, Alec Waugh remembers 1931 as being a year of firsts. It was the year he attended his first garden party, the year he made his first transatlantic phone call, the year he became...
by Joe Gross
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
By June 1993, when Washington, D.C.'s Fugazi released their third full-length album In on the Kill Taker, the quartet was reaching a thunderous peak in popularity and influence. With two EPs (combined into the classic CD 13 songs) and two albums (1990's genre-defining Repeater and 1991's impressionistic...
by Jerry Stahl
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
In this highly acclaimed novel, the author of Permanent Midnight channels fallen early-Hollywood star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Fatty tells his own story of success, addiction, and a precipitous fall from grace after being framed for a brutal crime-a national media scandal that set the precedent for those so familiar today.
Lost Connections
Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
The New York Times bestseller from the author of Chasing the Scream, offering a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety.
What really causes depression and anxiety--and how can we really solve them? Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a...
The Strange Death of Europe
Immigration, Identity, Islam
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
The Strange Death of Europe is the internationally bestselling account of a continent and a culture caught in the act of suicide, now updated with new material taking in developments since it was first published to huge acclaim. These include rapid changes in the dynamics of global politics, world...
Volcker
The Triumph of Persistence
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Over the course of nearly half a century, five American presidents-three Democrats and two Republicans-have relied on the financial acumen, and the integrity, of Paul A. Volcker. During his tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, when he battled the Great Inflation of the 1970s, Volcker did...
The Profession of Violence
The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The classic, bestselling account of the infamous Kray twins, now a major film, LEGEND, starring Tom Hardy.
Reggie and Ronald Kray ruled London's gangland during the 1960s with a ruthlessness and viciousness that shocks even now. Building an empire of organised crime such as nobody has done...
Facades
Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
First published in 1978 Façades details the lives of three of the twentieth century's most intriguing literary figures: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Aristocrats emanating from a privileged but loveless youth, they moulded the scene of the English avant-garde throughout the 1920s and in...
by John Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
John Pearson knows more about the Krays than anyone alive. Legend, starring Tom Hardy, was based on his book The Profession of Violence and it was Pearson who exposed the Boothby connection in 1994. In 1967 the twins asked Pearson to write their biography. He remained a confidant of the family and...
Blood Royal
The Story of the Spencers and the Royals
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
From the author of All the Money in the World, now a major motion picture, comes a history of Lady Diana's family, the Spencers, a dynasty that rose from sheep farmers to the ranks of upper aristocracy and, finally, royalty.
When Lady Diana Spencer married the Prince of Wales in 1981, very...
by John Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Growing up in the supreme moral rigour of Queen Victoria's court, young Bertie was always going to find it hard to live up to his parents' expectation. He was far from a brilliant student, and though charming, his carnal inclinations were widely rumoured to have sped up his Father's decline, with...
Chasing the Scream
The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
The New York Times Bestseller
The Book Behind the Viral TED Talk
For the first time, the startling full story of the disastrous war on drugs--propelled by moving human stories, revolutionary insight into addiction, and fearless international reporting.
What if everything you think you...
The Power Makers
Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Maury Klein is one of America's most acclaimed historians of business and society. In The Power Makers, he offers an epic narrative of his greatest subject yet - the "power revolution" that transformed American life in the course of the nineteenth century. The steam engine; the incandescent...