Jonathan Gould: 17 books

That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. In Can’t Buy Me Love, Jonathan Gould explains why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and tumultuous panorama of their time and place, rooting their story in the social context that girded both their rise and their demise. Nearly twenty...

Could there be a genie in that magic lamp? Bella is so excited when she discovers an old lamp, because it looks just like the lamps in those stories she loves. What will happen if she rubs it? Will a genie appear and offer her three wishes, just like in those stories? She rubs it and......

Thomas knew the strange creature with the flippy-floppy turtle flippers was not a tiger, but how could he prove it? WINNER: Awesome Indies-Approved - Children's Fiction When Thomas finds a talking turtle in his yard, he's amazed and surprised, especially when the turtle insists, "I'm not...

Monsters and monsters and more monsters, oh my! Strange things are happening in Maddie's house. Objects keep disappearing, and Maddie's family can't imagine where they've gone. Only Maddie knows that her monsters have taken them. Can she get her family to believe her? And can she get her monsters...

The long-awaited, definitive biography of The King of Soul, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Redding's iconic performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Otis Redding remains an immortal presence in the canon of American music on the strength of such classic hits as “(Sittin’...

When an intrepid time traveller takes a trip back to the time of the dinosaurs, he is faced with many puzzling questions. What is this thing called the Mesozoirama? Why do the dinosaurs hold it in such high regard? And could it actually be a threat to the entire dinosaur civilisation? Dinosaurs is...

An epic tale of swords and baked goods. Magnus Mandalora never planned to go out into the big, wide world. He thought he'd live out his life in his homely little village, happily cooking and eating pflugberry pies. But fate had other ideas. Before he knows it, Magnus has embarked on...

Neville Lansdowne fell off the world.Actually, he did not so much fall off as let go. The world had been moving so quickly lately and Neville was finding it almost impossible to keep up.Doodling is an engaging comic fantasy which relates the events that befall Neville after he finds...

Jimmy Clarenden’s last case didn’t end well. Cut down in a hail of bullets, he’s now found himself at the Pearly Gates. Jimmy is no saint, so he’s stunned to learn he’s been summoned by God to take on a highly sensitive job. God’s son (the other one) has gone missing and it’s up to Jimmy...

As Kriffle the Flidderbug investigates why his fellow 'bugs find it impossible to agree on the pressing issue of how many points there are on the leaves of the tree on which they live, he finds that the truth is more complicated, and ultimately more terrifying, than he ever could have imagined. Flidderbugs...

Sequel number two for the Goodreads Choice semi-finalist DoodlingNeville Lansdowne drowned in a sea of words.Of course, he didn’t really drown. You can’t actually drown in a sea of words. But you can sink a long way down into its depths, and that’s exactly what happened to Neville.Deep...

The sequel to the Goodreads Choice semi-finalist Doodling Neville Lansdowne pushed the world out of shape. He didn’t mean to do it. He didn’t even realise he had done it. If you had asked him, he would have said that, as far as he could tell, the world was the wrong shape to begin...

Have you come from another world? At first, Nicola thinks the young man’s question is absurd. There are no such things as other worlds. But after passing through a mysterious Bunsen burner flame to a place where the ground is blue and the sky is red, Nicola begins to realise that this...

What exactly is it that Christians believe? Whether you are a Christian looking for a refresher course on the essentials, or an interested enquirer, this book is for you. Clearly and crisply explaining the core beliefs of the Christian faith, and interacting with the kinds of questions on our minds,...