A memoir that describes the harsh life before the existence of the welfare state and how beach combing assisted Benjamin Pond's poor income. It recounts his journeys of sailing around the coast of Hampshire and Dorset, ...
John fell in love with Fanny when he saw her in November 1818 in Hampstead and was inspired to produce some of the most beautiful verse and love letters ever written. This edition comprises of the love letters that ...
An autobiographical novel of growing up in the multicultural environment of contemporary France tells the story of Azouz Begag, the son of an illiterate Algerian immigrant in Lyon and his coming of age in a world of ...
A memoir that covers Murakami's four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and settings ranging from Tokyo's Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River ...
'Punished' is the inspiring true story of an unusual little girl, Vanessa, whose childhood was devastated by torture and abuse at the hands of her sadistic mother. Vanessa was nearly destroyed until she discovered a ...
"The Paris Review" was founded in 1953 and has published early and important work by Philip Roth, V S Naipaul, Jeffrey Eugenides, A S Byatt, T C Boyle, William T Vollmann and many others. It is one of the ...
Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside. Thid title celebrates this long tradition with various aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship ...
Why is the human imagination to blame for the worst crimes of the twentieth century? Why is progress a pernicious myth? Why is contemporary atheism just a hangover from Christian faith? This collection of essays intends ...
This classic story follows Hawkeye, an adroit scout, and his companion Chingachgook, who weave through the spectacular and dangerous wilderness of upstate New York during the French and Indian War, fighting to save the ...
A collection of personal essays by some of today's most popular young adult and women's fiction writers considers the ways in which the books of Judy Blume influenced their emotional, social, and physical developments, ...
Like many Americans, Doug Fine enjoys his creature comforts, but he also knows full well they keep him addicted to oil. So he wonders: Is it possible to keep his Netflix and his car, his Wi-Fi and his subwoofers, and ...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that everyone loves a good wedding. This title presents the scams which inflate the prices of various things from flowers to cakes to marquee hire, and the wedding disaster stories ...
A critical assessment of the rise of the graphic novel evaluates the medium as one of the past century's most important literary movements while evaluating key publications since 2000, in a volume that ...
Five years ago, after an exhaustive search, the Chicago Tribune announced Amy Dickinson as the next Ann Landers. Readers love her for her brutal honesty, her small-town values, and the fact that her motto is: "I make ...