Simon: 5480 books

Stories of vampire tyrants, stories of hidden kings, stories of kidnapped guitar heroes, stories of witch mothers, and stories of cannibal Communists: such are the stories told in dark narrative verse, and found in the pages of The August Vampeer, a compelling and richly textured collection of poetry...

Simon Beckett Klem Het is een snikhete zomer op het verlaten Franse platteland. De Engelsman Sean loopt door een verwilderd bos en trapt in een wildklem. Hij raakt bewusteloos van de pijn. Gelukkig wordt hij gevonden door een jonge vrouw, Mathilde. Zij en haar zusje slepen hem mee naar hun...

Fred may look ordinary, but sometimes people who look ordinary turn out to be not very ordinary at all ... because it just so happens that Fred is a Wizard! Sounds pretty great, right? Except that Fred is absolutely, completely, mind-boggingly TERRIBLE at magic. At school, he’s stuck in a...

A brilliantly funny book about what happens when you say yes, from award-winning author Simon Philip and exciting illustrator Annabel Tempest Sometimes saying yes is a brilliant thing. You can meet new people, discover amazing things, and go on exciting adventures . . . but not always. When...

In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea: a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts. And...

I am a monster. You ask what kind, but I will leave that to you, gentle reader. The details of my modern identity are available, but The Creature’s Cookbook is woefully incomplete. This compilation of stories and recipes came about because of your questions and desires. I offer it so that...

Rachel Simon spent years analyzing why her daughter’s eczema flared up and what made it calm down. A maverick with a curious mind, and a yen for self-experimentation, she started by asking a simple question most experts haven't tackled: Where is 80 percent of your immune system located? After scouring...

Simon Brown is an ordinary working Man, yet with his decision to be a ‘Respondent in Person’ the UK Family Courts and his Wife’s hoard of Credit Funded Family Lawyers subjected him to a near 4 Year Divorce wrangle over his only real asset; his Home. With incredible humour Simon takes the reader...

Imagine what would happen if you were to have a conversation with your soul. Imagine what you’d say if you thought no one was listening... It’s just before midnight. Simon is sitting alone in the darkness. He’s staring out his bedroom window. But all he can see is heartbreak. At age 38,...

'Simon Hall heeft een prachtig boek geschreven en een bij nader inzien adembenemend jaar zijn verdiende plek in de historie bezorgd.' - de Volkskrant Het jaar 1956 is een kantelpunt in de geschiedenis. Opstanden in Polen en in Hongarije, de Suezcrisis, uitbarstingen van antikoloniaal nationalisme...

Avversario del dispotismo assolutista, eppure alla costante ricerca di una difficile imparzialità, il duca di Saint-Simon ha raccontato dall’interno la vita alla corte di Luigi XIV. La sua penna acuminata trascina il lettore in un vortice di cerimonie, feste, battaglie, intrighi, amori e funerali,...

Boomsticks is the second short story collection by author Simon Fairbanks. Discover fourteen new stories where the fantastic, the horrifying and the bizarre cross over into everyday life. A bounty hunter pursues a fugitive robot through Japan's largest fish market, a man has a hellish...

Fred may look ordinary, but sometimes people who look ordinary turn out to be not very ordinary at all ... because it just so happens that Fred is a Wizard! The only problem is that Fred is completely, mind-boggingly TERRIBLE at magic... And now he's training with the amazing Merlin, hoping...

Retour sur un courant politique qui est omniprésent dans la société.Le néolibéralisme est-il une idéologie ? Comment s'est-il imposé dans le monde depuis quarante ans ? Quel est son bilan ? Pourquoi faut-il distinguer libéralisme et néolibéralisme ?Toutes ces questions, et beaucoup d'autres,...