Weidenfeld Nicolson imprint: 429 books
Our Friends Beneath the Sands
The Foreign Legion in France's Colonial Conquests 1870-1935
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
The gripping true story of the French Foreign Legion in the Sahara.
Ever since the 1920s the popular legend of the French Foreign Legion has been formed by P.C. Wren's novel BEAU GESTE - a world of remote forts, warrior tribes, and desperate men of all nationalities enlisting under pseudonyms...
by David Berman
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Part of the GREAT PHILOSOPHERS series.
George Berkeley 1685-1753
A scientist, theologian and writer on medicine and economics, George Berkeley was in his way a most improbable philosopher. A master of English prose, he was suspicious of language; scornful of abstractions, he looked instead...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Anglo-saxon poetry was circulated orally in a preliterate society, and gathered at last into books over some six centuries before the Norman Conquest ended English independence. Against the odds some of these books survive today. This anthology of prose translations covers most of the surviving poetry,...
by Percy Fawcett
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
The life of Colonel Fawcett is now the subject of the major motion picture The Lost City of Z.
The disappearance of Colonel Fawcett in the Matto Grosso remains one of the great unsolved mysteries. In 1925, Fawcett was convinced that he had discovered the location of a lost city; he had set...
by Kei Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
From the WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2014, a 'humorous, bittersweet fiction, combin[ing] the fantastical realism of Marquez with the domestic comedy of Andrea Levy' INDEPENDENT
It all begins with the theft of Tessa Walcott's panties...
After the hurricane of 1974,...
All's Fair in Love and Law
Small Town Tales of Life, Laughter and Litigation
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Humorous and heart-warming tales of English rural life centred on a traditional firm of country solicitors, perfect for fans of Rumpole of the Bailey and James Herriot.
Dufty Dufty Popple & Dunn is a traditional solicitors firm in the small Midlands town of Hockam (pronounced Hokum, as...
The Death of an Owl
From the author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, a witty tale of scandal and subterfuge
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Political chaos, MPs turning on each other, expediency and skulduggery at the highest echelons of government? No, not Brexit, but a brilliant political satire from the bestselling author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN
Andrew Landford, MP is driving home one night along a dark country lane when...
Question Time
A Journey Round Britains Quizzes
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Which major UK retailer has the same name as Odysseus's dog in Greek mythology?
In the original version of the Band Aid hit 'Do They Know It's Christmas?', who sang the opening line?
Which is the only US state whose name can be typed on a single row of a QWERTY keyboard?
Travel writer and quiz...
Ella Morris
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Spanning the decades from WWII to the Yugoslav conflict, Ella Morris is the story of a continent, and of a woman torn between two men.
Born in Berlin on the eve of Hitler's rise to power, Ella Andrzejewski escapes Soviet-occupied europe and finds a safe haven in England. Here, she marries George...
by Paul Torday
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
The bestselling author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN returns with a Buchan-esque thriller.
Traumatised by a tour of duty in Iraq, Richard Gaunt returns home to his girlfriend with very little of a plan in mind. Finding it difficult to settle into civilian life, he turns to drink and gambling...
Close But No Cigar
A True Story of Prison Life in Castro's Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2017
'In its tragic absurdity, Close But No Cigar reads like a Graham Greene story, with a cast of characters to make Hemingway proud' Daily Telegraph
For over a decade Stephen Purvis had been a pillar of Havana's expat...
by Charlotte Bronte
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Jane Eyre, orphaned, penniless, victim to a harsh Aunt, and miserable years at Lowood institution finds love as Governess to the sickly Adele, illegitimate daughter of Mr Rochester. With their wedding interrupted by the sudden intrusion of Rochester's mad Creole wife, inhabitant of the upper regions...
Parrish Times
My Life as a Racer
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Champion motorcyclist and truck racer, television presenter, practical joker or just plain survivor - Steve Parrish has been called them all. Parrish Times tracks his amazing journey over the last four decades, through a rollercoaster ride of emotions in surely the most dangerous and exhilarating...
The Girl On The Landing
Part love story, part psychological thriller, from the author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
'The best book of the year... truly astonishing' Sunday Express
'An exciting novel - part love story, part psychological thriller' Mail on Sunday
'Surprising and suspenseful' Observer
A GHOST STORY, A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER AND A TALE OF LOVE REDISCOVERED, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SALMON...