Hilarious and provocative, fanciful and wise, offering answers to questions we never thought to ask and questions to the answers always thought we knew, these essays range over subjects marginally useful and...
How to Talk Like a Local: From Cockney to Geordie
If you were a Londoner visiting Cornwall would you know how to recognise a grammersow? If you were from the West Country and took a trip up to Scotland, would you be bewildered if someone described you as crabbit? And...
For fifteen-year-old Martin, the summer of 1977 means punk rock, reggae music, disco girls, stolen cars, and a job picking cherries with the gypsies. Life is sweet - until he is beaten up and thrown in the Grand Union...
Everything is over for Simon Axler. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent and his assurance. When he goes on stage he feels like a lunatic...
Camille is doing her best to disappear. She barely eats, works at night as a cleaner and lives in a tiny attic room. Downstairs, in a beautiful, ornate apartment, lives Philibert Marquet de La Durbelliere, a shy,...
There are some people you’d do anything for… For Fran that list would include her husband, Max, her daughter, and her best friend, Alison. Only Alison is now desperately ill and she needs Fran’s help. She wants to...
One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam in her summer cottage by Lake Thingvellir. At first sight it appears to be a straightforward case of suicide; the woman, Maria, had never recovered from the...
"I Am a Chechen!" offers a lyrical fusion of exotic legends, stories and memories of Chechnya: a land of wondrous beauty, site of genocides past and present, and the author`s ancestral home. Haunted by memories of the...
Meet Kate Reddy, fund manager and mother of two. A victim of time famine, Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. Factor in a manipulative nanny, an Australian boss who looks at Kate`s breasts as if...
"Married a Communist" is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch digger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, both...
I Never Knew That About the English HB
This wonderful book takes an affectionate, entertaining and perceptive look at the English people. Here are their traditions, foibles, quirks, customs, humour and achievements, triumphs and failures, peccadilloes and...
I Never Knew That About the Irish HB
In this charming book bestselling author Christopher Winn turns his attention to the Irish people, taking us on a enthralling journey around their homeland, discovering en route the intriguing and surprising ways the...
I Never Knew That About the Scottish HB
In this captivating book, bestselling author Christopher Winn turns his attention to the Scottish people, taking us on an eye-opening journey around their homeland, discovering en route the intriguing and surprising...
I Shall Wear Midnight is a Nebula Award-winning comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett set on the Discworld. It is the fourth novel within the Discworld series to be based around the character of Tiffany Aching. It...
Meet Maggie Fortenberry. Her life seems pretty much perfect - she`s beautiful, charming and successful, just as you`d expect of a former Miss Alabama. But, in fact, Maggie is perfectly miserable. By now she should...
Remember when the man of your dreams was waiting for you between the pages of Jackie? Remember when pop concerts kicked off at so you could be home in time for Blind Date? Remember when your signature scent was a...
When a small boy turns up on Bob and Joan`s doorstep unable to say much except `I was a rat`, the kindly couple adopt him. It seems strange but Bob reads about odder things every day in his newspaper. To them, the...
I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
"I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere" explores how a life can be changed irrevocably in just one fateful moment. A pregnant mother`s plans for the future unravel at the hospital; a travelling salesman learns...
