Michael: 30513 books

FINALIST FOR THE BEST BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION A boy’s enchanted childhood in a coastal town on the Isle of Man – one of rabbit hunts, darkened church naves and lessons in ancient Viking heritage – is about to disappear forever. Boyhood dreams of football fame are ditched for drinking...

Michael Walsh is uniquely international. His poetry does not recognise frontiers. This worldwide adored poet has restored rhythm and heartfelt meaning to poetry. He has won a following that previously rejected poetry. Much poetry, as with many other art forms, degraded by an elite, is vacuous to readers....

“Place is a character in Patrick Michael Finn’s fiction. It's almost as if the setting, like the working-class characters who people his stories, has an ethnicity. The characters try to go on with their lives while the place broods and mourns around them. And all the while the narratives driven by...

Michael Shaara published many short stories during the course of his early career as an author before getting his first novel published--The Broken Place. He wrote science fiction stories for the pulp magazines with names like Galaxy and Fantastic Universe, but also domestic dramas and humorous stories...

A lifetime of tales from the nation’s favourite storyteller, and award-winning author of WAR HORSE – the perfect gift for any book-lover. The most comprehensive and definitive Michael Morpurgo collection ever, this gorgeous edition features twenty-five enchanting short stories by the nation’s...

476 a.d.: The Roman Empire, riddled with corruption and staggered by centuries of barbarian onslaughts, now faces its greatest challenge---not only to its wealth and prestige, but to its very existence. In his riveting novel The Sword of Attila, Michael Curtis Ford thrilled readers with his...

‘His tact and pacing, in the individual sentence and the overall story, are beautiful … McLaverty’s place in our literature is secure.’ Seamus Heaney Michael McLaverty, one of Ireland’s most important short story writers, painted with acute precision and intensity...

Few poets have brought their gift for prose to such a high art form. Its true value is that his verse connects with commonly held sentiment. Thousands of people, not usually inclined towards poetry, are now firm Michael Walsh followers. He has a gift for expressing the whimsical thoughts, romantic...

Im März 1225 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung hält sich Atlan noch immer mit seinem Raumschiff TOSOMA und dessen Besatzung im Kugelsternhaufen Omega Centauri auf. Auf der Stahlwelt materialisiert eine schwarze Quaderplattform, die den Arkoniden sofort an die "Vergessene Plattform" erinnert....

In 1951 Michael Jenkins, then 14 years old, spent the summer with "the aunts in Flanders." His "aunts" were a group of elderly women whose connection to his family had never been explained but they immediately embraced him and he quickly became entwined in the lives of an extended...

In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's craft, and most importantly, why they chose to live where they do and what that place means to them. The...

One of the included stories in Zipperful Of Hair was recently awarded inclusion into A Tribute To Kurt Vonnegut, published by Perpetual Motion Publishing. If you enjoy the writing of Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, Mark Twain & other writers of that genre, you might enjoy Michael Lee Smith's...

If you loved Bound, you'll want to know how Tom & Kate and Ginger & Jacqueline got together. But True Love X 2 is a lot more than two love stories! This book is for those who want thrills and intrigue in their complicated romances——and don't mind some darkness, too. While it has both heterosexual...

This is a read-along edition with audio synced to the text, performed by Michael Morpurgo. A captivating retelling of the nation’s favourite fairy tale, from the nation’s favourite storyteller, Michael Morpurgo. After encountering a fearsome beast at a mysterious palace, down-on-his-luck merchant...