Profile: 418 books
by Catherine Millet
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
A window into a life of insatiable desire and uninhibited sex - this is Parisian art critic Catherine M.'s account of her sexual awakening and her unrestrained pursuit of pleasure. From the glamorous singles clubs of Paris to the Bois de Boulogne, she describes her erotic experiences in precise and...
Gentleman Jack
A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian who inspired the television series Gentleman Jack
Anne Lister's journals were so shocking that the first person to crack their secret code hid them behind a fake panel in his ancestral home. Anne Lister was a Regency landowner, an intrepid...
Get a Life
The Diaries of Vivienne Westwood
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Vivienne Westwood began Get A Life, her online diary, in 2010 with an impassioned post about Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Since then, she has written two or three entries each month, discussing her life in fashion and her involvement with art, politics and the environment.
Reading...
by Brian Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
This is Brian Epstein's own account of his extraordinary life and, inevitably, it is the story of the Beatles, the greatest pop group of the twentieth-century. What was the secret of Brian Epstein's management of the Beatles, how did he guide a group from Liverpool to shake the world of popular music?...
The Look of Love
The Life and Times of Paul Raymond, Soho's King of Clubs
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
For almost forty years, Paul Raymond was one Britain's most scandalous celebrities. Best known as the owner of the world famous Raymond Revuebar, he was a successful theatre impresario, property magnate and porn baron.
With his pencil moustache, gold jewellery and taste for showgirls, Raymond...
All Day Long
A Portrait of Britain At Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Nearly all of us have to work, but how much do we really know about what other people do all day? What is it like to be a fishmonger, a sex worker or an Orthodox rabbi? Or a banker, a research scientist or a carer? How do our jobs affect our lives, beliefs and happiness? And what happens when we don't...
In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room
Travels Through Indian Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
WINNER OF BEST POPULAR MEDICINE BOOK AT THE BMA MEDICAL BOOK AWARDS
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 JHALAK PRIZE
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex: uniting cutting-edge technological developments with ancient cultural traditions.
Aarathi Prasad investigates how Indian medicine...
The Sound of the City
The Rise of Rock and Roll
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Charlie Gillett, a British journalist, loves the music, and his passion is evident throughout The Sound of the City. Yet the greatest strength of the book is the way Gillett tracks the resistance of the music industry to early rock-and-roll, which was followed (needless to say) by a frantic rush to...
by Fernando Pessoa
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Sitting at his desk, Bernardo Soares imagined himself free forever of Rua dos Douradores, of his boss Vasques, of Moreira the book-keeper, of all the other employees, the errand boy, the post boy, even the cat. But if he left them all tomorrow and discarded the suit of clothes he wears, what else...
Game Query
The Mind-Stretching Economist Quiz
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
TEST YOURSELF AGAINST THE ECONOMIST'S CHAMPION QUIZ TEAM - THE ONLY QUIZ BOOK YOU NEED THIS CHRISTMAS
General knowledge quizzes are ten a penny. Trust The Economist, which knows both the price and the value of everything, to do something different.
In its first ever quiz book in a 175-year...
by Alain Mabanckou
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Buttocks Man is down on his uppers. His girlfriend, Original Colour, has cleared out of their Paris studio and run off to the Congo with a vertically challenged drummer known as The Mongrel. She's taken their daughter with her. Meanwhile, a racist neighbour spies on him something wicked, accusing...
A Rocket in My Pocket: The Hipster's Guide to Rockabilly Music
The Hipster's Guide to Rockabilly Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Rockabilly had its roots in country, blues, folk, hillbilly, R&B, boogie-woogie and most other indigenous Deep South forms of popular song that you could strum three chords along to or howl down a cheap microphone. It was young people's music, made almost entirely by the first wave of teenagers,...
As Serious As Your Life
Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957–1977
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American culture.
Placing the achievements of African-American...
by Elaine Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The Descent of Woman is a pioneering work, the first to argue for the equal role of women in human evolution. On its first publication in 1972 it sparked an international debate and became a rallying-point for feminism, changing the terminology of anthropologists forever. Starting with her demolition...