Bloomsbury Paperbacks imprint: 99 books
by Al Alvarez
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Al Alvarez, poet, critic, novelist, sportsman, and poker player, has for seventy years been hard to categorize. He is the author of the best-selling study of suicide, THE SAVAGE GOD, and as poetry editor of the OBSERVER, he has known most of the leading poets of the second half of last century. For...
Milosevic
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
This is the first authoritative biography of Slobodan Milosevic, currently on trial at The Hague for crimes against humanity. Adam LeBor, a critically acclaimed author and journalist who covered the Yugoslav Wars for the Independent and The Times, documents the life of a man whose policies instigated...
by David Cordingly
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
This is the story of the Bellerophon, a ship of the line known to her crew as the Billy Ruffian. Under fourteen captains, she played a conspicuous part in three of the most famous of all sea battles: the battle of the Glorious First of June (1794), the opening action against Revolutionary France;...
The Sky Suspended
A Fighter Pilot's Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
In 1939, at the age of nineteen, Jim Bailey was conscripted into the RAF to train as a fighter pilot. What happened over the next five years to Jim and the men he met, the men who fought, died and survived, is related with candour and quiet modesty in this book. It describes the youthful heroism of...
by Will Self
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Will Self and Ralph Steadman join forces once again in a further post-millennial meditation on the vexed relationship of psyche and place in a globalised world; Psycho Too brings together a second helping of their very best words and pictures from 'Psychogeography', the columns they contributed to...
by Mirabel Osler
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
In this book the author describes the way her garden evolved and how, without meaning to do so, she let it take over her life. She suggests moving away from planning, regimentation and gardening with the mentality of a stamp-collector. Frequently funny and always stimulating, she writes of the alchemy...
The Tulip
The Story of a Flower That Has Made Men Mad
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
THE TULIP is not a gardening book. It is the story of a flower that has made men mad. Greed, desire, anguish and devotion have all played their part in the development of the tulip into the world-wide phenomenon it is today.
No other flower has ever carried so much cultural baggage; it charts...
A Breath from Elsewhere
Musings on Gardens
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Mirabel Osler attempts in this work to take the reader beyond her own garden, offering encouragement to all gardeners, especially novices, to ignore books and try whatever appeals to them.
On the Tip of My Tongue
Questions, Facts, Curiosities and Games of a Quizzical Nature
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Who is Yogi Bear's girlfriend?
What links gazpacho soup with revenge?
List the nine activities which are traditionally forbidden in public swimming pools.
What does the Mona Lisa have in her left hand?
List the ten ways in which a batsman may be dismissed in a game of cricket.
What...
Dr Jack
Calcutta's Pavement Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
In the backstreets of Calcutta, shielded from the scorching sun by a tattered tarpaulin, mothers clutching semi-conscious, emaciated babies, and adults and children with missing or gangrenous limbs or suffering from tuberculosis or leprosy, queue in their hundreds to see Dr Jack Preger. On a stretch...
Risky Business
People, Pastimes, Poker and Books
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Al Alvarez's writing career has come in many guises. One of the most influential post-war critics, he has written profoundly and eloquently about writers and their craft for over fifty years. But Alvarez has also been a passionate amateur of risky pursuits - poker playing, mountaineering, flying in...
Liberty in the Age of Terror
A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
"The means of defence against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." James Madison
Our societies, says Anthony Grayling, are under attack not only from the threat of terrorism, but also from our governments' attempts to fight that threat by reducing...
The Provos
The IRA and Sinn Fein
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Based on the television documentary series of the same name, the author charts the history of the Provisional IRA and Sinn Fein.
Never before has an outsider had such access to record the remarkable history of the provisional IRA and Sinn Fein, the 'Provos', from their dramatic beginnings to...
Brits
The War Against the IRA
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
In the final part of his trilogy exploring 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland, Peter Taylor talks to undercover agents of the British state and reveals for the first time the hidden secrets of the war they waged against the IRA for thirty years. PROVOS and LOYALISTS told the story of the conflict...