Atlantic Books imprint: 617 books
Unfinished Agenda
Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Unfinished Agenda offers an inside look at the Black Power Movement that emerged during the Civil Rights Movement of the sixties. A political memoir that teaches grass-roots politics and inspires organizing for real change in the Age of Obama, this book will appeal to readers of black history, Occupy...
Turned Out Nice Again
The Story of British Light Entertainment
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
With a cast of thousands, including Peter Cook, Ken Dodd, Dusty Springfield, Spike Milligan, Rolf Harris, Bruce Forsyth, and Reeves and Mortimer, this book reveals a world of comedians and cavorters, dancing girls, and crooners. From the early days of vaudeville, via the golden age of radio, live...
by Jean-Michel Guenassia
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini—amateur photographer and compulsive reader—is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a grown-up world—of rock 'n' roll and of the Algerian...
by Louis Barfe
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
The first ever narrative biography of a towering figure in British comedy
Les Dawson, more than any other comedian, spoke for the phlegmatic, pessimistic British way of life. A Northern lad who climbed out of the slums thanks to an uncommonly brilliant mind, he was always the underdog,...
by Phil Rickman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Every night for 400 years, a curfew bell has tolled from the church tower of Crybbe—superstitious ritual or sole defense against an ancient evil?
In Crybbe, only strangers walk at twilight . . .
For 400 years, the curfew bell has tolled nightly from the church tower of the small country...
The Gilded Stage
A Social History of Opera
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Fascinating and highly readable, this is the definitive social history of the world's most romantic, flamboyant, glamorous, and politically influential art-form: opera
From its beginnings in the Renaissance cities of northern Italy opera has permeated through Europe, America, and beyond, becoming...
by Phil Rickman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
A spooky supernatural thriller by the author of the Merrily Watkins series
Liam Defford doesn't believe in ghosts. As the head of a production company, however, he does believe in high-impact TV. On the lookout for his next idea, he hires journalist Grayle Underhill to research the history...
by Gordon Ferris
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
A read-it-in-one-sitting, action-packed, gritty, and atmospheric crime novel set on the tough streets of 1946 Glasgow
The last time Douglas Brodie came home it was 1942 and he was a dashing young warrior in a kilt. Now, the war is over, but victory's wine has soured and Brodie's back in Scotland...
A Forger's Tale
Confessions of the Bolton Forger
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
In 2007, Bolton Crown Court sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the crime of producing artistic forgeries. Working out of a shed in his parents' garden, Greenhalgh had successfully fooled some of the world's greatest museums. During the court case, the breadth of...
Aya Awakenings
A Shamanic Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Experiential journalist Rak Razam sets out to document the thriving business of 21st-century hallucinogenic shamanism starting with a trip to the annual Amazonian Shaman Conference in Iquitos, Peru, where he meets a motley crew of "spiritual tourists," rogue scientists, black magicians,...
How to Be Normal
A Guide for the Perplexed
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
From the author of Never Hit a Jellyfish With a Spade comes a new volume of answers to life's most troublesome questions
Normal people are extremely unusual. Think of all the people you know and ask yourself how many are normal. None of them! In fact you're probably the most normal of the lot...
Animal Wisdom
Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
How is it that pets are able to travel thousands of miles through unknown territory to reunite with their beloved humans? How can dogs detect cancer with up to a 98 percent accuracy rate, and foresee epileptic or diabetic seizures in their owners? How do animals seem to know an earthquake is coming...
The Impossible Life of Mary Benson
The Extraordinary Story of a Victorian Wife
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The remarkable true story of the life of Mary Benson: wife of an archbishop, friend of
Queen Victoria, mother of three "unpermissably gifted" children—including E. F.
Benson, and in love with dozens of women
Sometimes touching and sometimes hilarious, this is the story of one...
Surviving Execution
A Miscarriage of Justice and the Fight to End the Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
A tense mix of Dead Man Walking and Making a Murderer, Surviving Execution combines the very best in true-crime writing with a searching exploration of our most barbaric punishment.Imagine being condemned to death for murder, when even the prosecutors admit that you didn't actually kill anyone. This...