Angela Frytton - wonderwife, supermother, bedroom vamp and business partner - has been unceremoniously dumped. Like many a good wife before her she has swapped by her husband for a young model. One day, she knows, her husband will return. Meanwhile she yields herself up to the notion that country
Indoctrinaire was CP’s first novel, a leap into the unknown for both publisher and author. (Faber commissioned the book from an outline.) Although by no means pre-figuring what Priest would achieve with his later books, Indoctrinaire is not without its moments. It describes a future world where the
Collection of six short stories on love and the healing power of time.
When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison. But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were
Twenty years after the release of Nirvana’s landmark Nevermind album, Everybody Loves Our Town: A History of Grunge offers the definitive overview of a musical time and place. Grunge, also known as the ‘Seattle sound’, is the sludgy fusion of punk rock and heavy metal that emerged from the Pacific
Joy Division emerged in the mid-70s at the start of a two-decades long Manchester scene that was to become much mythologised. It was then a city still labouring in the wake of the war and entering a phase of huge social and physical change, and something of this spirit made its way into the DNA of
Two months before he shot himself, Adolf Hitler saw where it had all gone wrong. By failing to seize Gibraltar in the summer of 1940, he lost the war. The Rock of Gibraltar, a pillar of British sea-power since 1704, looked formidable but was extraordinarily vulnerable. Though menaced on all sides
Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom. 'But what is the ninth kingdom?' she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage.
Nick jest biologiem morskim pracującym nad ochroną rafy koralowej na wybrzeżu Zanzibaru. Podczas wycieczki do stolicy kraju spotyka pracownicę ambasady Mirandę. Zbieg okoliczności powoduje,że zostają wplątani w spisek terrorystyczny, powiązany z działaniami CIA.
Hope in a Ballet Shoe tells the story of Michaela DePrince. Growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone, she witnesses atrocities that no child ever should. Her father is killed by rebels and her mother dies of famine. Sent to an orphanage, Michaela is mistreated and she sees the brutal murder of her
