Nathaniel Piven is a rising star in Brooklyn's literary scene. His new book deal has attracted him the attention of a number of desirable women...
"With this novel, Waldman has done the heretofore impossible: get at the core of the modern female state through the roiling inner monologue of a man who loves to hate women. Her protagonist is well-meaning, and that may be the most sobering part. Nate is almost too real. Mark my words: this book will inspire laughter, chills of recognition and flights into lesbianism." - Lena Dunham
A controlling manager discovers his wife's infidelity after twenty-five years of marriage. An overweight young woman gains a romantic partner but loses her innocence. A philandering bartender/aspiring poet betrays his pregnant wife. A teenage girl flees a dirty image of her posted online.
"An utterly absorbing novella on the nature of intimacy and love, from one of the best contemporary writers of fiction. Immensely moving and universally true." - Gabriel Byrne, The Irish Times
Mailer's account of the Apollo 11 mission, written as it happened, in an America torn apart over the Vietnam War, is suffused with the author's obsession both with the astronauts themselves and with his own anxieties and terrors about the extremity of what they were trying to achieve. Introduction by Geoff Dyer.
A clear and impassioned call to action from a nonagenarian Yorkshireman heartbroken that the world again faces the crises of poverty, disease, corruption, ignornace and inequality that his generation worked so hard to overcome.
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There are two types of taxi driver in the Carnival city - the spiders and the flies. The spiders sit in their cars, waiting for the calls to come to them. But the flies wander the streets, looking for raised hands. From the seat of Fly's taxi we see the world in all its beauty and ugliness.
"A spellbinding success, a master storyteller. A tremendous novel." - Daily Telegraph
"A rich and often beautiful, brave, engrossing, intelligent, literate, funny and very human novel." - Guardian
"Dark and compelling, a restlessly energetic and kaleidoscopic work." - Financial Times
We are born, work, love and die in architecture. We buy and sell it, rent it and squat in it, create and destroy it. These aspects of buildings - economic, erotic, political and psychological - are crucial if we are to understand architecture properly.
"Challenging, witty and authoritative. A stunning assembly of ideas, thoughts and perspectives. A brilliantly accomplished series of often provocative and controversial ideas, leaping between the past and present with ease. Beautifully readable." - Guardian
Easy breads, exceptional breads - delectable breads.
"Caution! Do not drop book from open window (unless werewolf/vampire is below)."
It seems to me a handbook for avoiding danger is exactly the same as a handbook for finding it. Lots of fun.
A personal reminiscence in the guise of a guide to solving crosswords, or a guide to solving crosswords in the guise of a personal reminiscence. Each chapter starts with a clue and uses anecdote, history and autobiography to solve it.
"This beautiful book is an enigmatic and pleasurable as a perfect crossword clue, gradually yielding up hidden meanings that elucidate the mystery of love." - Francis Wheen
“Cancer cells are those that rebel against their fate — they hope for so much more.” This book will challenge everything you thought you knew about the disease - and provide hope for the future.
"Not since Susan Sontag has anyone put cancer so firmly and eloquently in its place, casting it as neither metaphor nor enemy, but simply a natural part of the orderly disorder of the natural world." - New York Times
Uncomfortable bits of reality gave rise to monstrous explanations, slain by the sword of science.
In her first ever story collection, Jansson reveals the clarity of vision and light philosophical touch that were to become her hallmark. Now available in English for the first time.
Data theft, internet memes, advertising, terrorism, indigenous sovereignty, drone warfare, opium addiction, syphilis, the moon landing, mining, oil slicks, climate change, giant octopuses, New Zealand-born author.
"Nic Low’s stories are like controlled detonations. Arms Race is machete-sharp, politically engaged and thematically fearless. Australian short fiction just got lobbed into the twenty-first century." -Maxine Beneba Clarke
If you've never thought of goats as supermodels, the glamorous caprines on these pages will soon change your mind.
The story of one family, one summer, and one act that may never be forgiven.
"Thrilling, beautiful and blisteringly smart. Utterly unforgettable." - John Green
Luigi is a young Italian boy in the 1920s, dreaming of cowboys and adventure, when a young Englishman gives him his first bicycle, thus sparking a lifelong passion. When World War II begins, Luigi enlists with the Italian Army Cycling Corps (naturally) and finds himself fighting alongside the Partisans. Despite sorrow and tragedy, Luigi's zest for life remains undiminished, and his next adventure sees him cycling through the Holy Land, Turkey and Sri Lanka before finding an unexpected home, and an extraordinary surprise, in Australia.
For fifty years following experimental surgery, Henry Molaison was unable to remember anything for more than a few seconds. His condition enabled unique insights into the human mind and brain. Corkin was Molaison's neurologist for the duration.
"Fascinating. Rich with implications for our understanding of the brain, our experience and what it means to be human. " - Steven Pinker
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The mysterious disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in New Guinea in 1961 has kept the world and his powerful, influential family guessing for years. Despite exhaustive searches, no trace of Rockefeller was ever found. Soon after his disappearance, rumours surfaced that he'd been killed and ceremonially eaten by the local Asmat - a native tribe of warriors whose complex culture was built around sacred, reciprocal violence, head hunting and ritual cannibalism. Now the true story is revealed.
We spend our lives amid pathogens and yet we survive, sometimes for decades, before they finally finish us off. How do we manage to do this?
A moving and informative picture book on Gallipoli, covering both the ANZAC and Turkish experience.
Based on interviews with sixty old-time drovers.
Life is just one of a multitude of possibilities. When 16-year-old Alex in Milan and 16-year-old Jenny in Melbourne find they have a telepathic link, they agree to meet. But do they live in the same possible world?
How does what we cannot see shape our experience of the world?
"Alan Lightman might be the only writer who can dance through not just one but seven universes in a book not much larger than a human hand." - The Columbus Dispatch
"A scientific and philosophical gem." - Kirkus
In the dark heart of eighteenth century England: a mistress, a maid, a mystery...
"I adored this novel: a delicious addictive mix of confectionery, skulduggery and crime, sprinkled with dark secrets and sauced with piquant comedy." - Maria McCann
"This wise and lively book offers two lessons: first, knowing modern politics can yield insight into study of the ancient world; and second, Rome still has lessons to teach us today." - City Journal
"The authors succeed brilliantly in bringing this fascinating statesman to life."-Kirkus Reviews
A satisfying large-format record, with great historical photographs (back from when the boats looked like boats).
Disobedient Objects is about out-designing authority. It explores the material culture of radical change and protest - from objects familiar to many, such as banners or posters, to the more militant, cunning or technologically cutting-edge, including lock-ons, book-blocs and activist robots. Where previous social movement histories have focused on large-scale events, strategies or biographies, this book shows how objects themselves can be revolutionary.
It is the middle of winter. Seven friends travel to a remote coastal beach house for the weekend. Without phones, internet or television, they sit around the fireplace, telling stories – each exposing the foibles of humankind. But as a storm rolls in and torrential rain cuts the party off from the outside world, it soon becomes clear that some secrets are best kept hidden.
"Thought-provoking and brilliant." - Guardian
"At the heart of Nichols's book are real revelations. I liked this book for its mad spirit. It is richer and more grounded than its post-new age, pop psychology tone might indicate." - Philip Hoare, Guardian
There is an interview with the author in the latest Listener.
London has long been a hotspot of urgent and aware street art.
Job security is a thing of the past - some welcome the flexibility of the new environment while others find it hard to adjust. The Way We Work features stories from the coalface of work - traditional and non-traditional jobs described with insight and passion.
