Crackpot: The Obsessions of (Waters John)(Paperback)

Crackpot: The Obsessions of (Waters John)(Paperback)

An outrageous collection from the uniquely legendary John Waters, updated with new material--including Waters's 2002 New York Times article, 'Finally, Footlights on the Fat Girls.'Crackpot, originally released in 1986, is John Waters's brilliantly entertaining litany of odd and fascinating people,

Carsick (Waters John)(Paperback / softback)

From the Pope of Trash himself, John Waters, Carsick is his hilarious (if not always 100% true) account of hitchhiking fearlessly into the heart of middle

John Waters: Indecent Exposure (Hileman Kristen)(Pevná vazba)

It has been more than fifty years since John Waters filmed his first short on the roof of his parents' Baltimore home. Over the following decades, Waters has developed a reputation as an uncompromising cultural force not only in cinema, but also in visual art, writing, and performance. This major

The Book of the Hopi (Waters Frank)(Paperback)

Role Models (Waters John)(Paperback / softback)

Threshold of Broken Waters (Bilman Emily)(Paperback / softback)

The Threshold of Broken Waters is a memoir in verse that highlights the life-changing influence of significant events in which pregnancy and birthing are presented as metaphors for poetry writing. The book is based on the sublimation of the mnemonic traces that sustain

Bridging the Mississippi: Spans Across the Father of Waters (Gould Philip)(Paperback)

Bridging the Mississippi: Spans across the Father of Waters portrays in words and stunning photographs the manmade structures that cross the nation's most important and, during the mid-nineteenth century, most daunting natural waterway. Philip Gould spent three years photographing Mississippi River

Esther Waters (Moore George)(Paperback)

Here is the only available paperback edition of George Moore's powerful novel, Esther Waters. Controversial and influential on its first appearance in 1894, the book opened up a new direction for the English realist tradition. Unflinching in its depiction of the dark and sordid side of Victorian

Life of Stuff - Possessions, obsessions and the mess we leave behind (Walker Susannah)(Paperback / softback)

Scoop Scuttle and His Pals: The Crackpot Comics of Basil Wolverton (Wolverton Basil)(Paperback)

In this rip-roaring retrospective of the influential Mad magazine cartoonist, Basil Wolverton's often-warped imagination combines with his outlandishly wacky visual humor to fascinate and delight. It collects the ultra-rare treasures Scoop Scuttle, Mystic Moot, Bingbang Buster, and Jumpin' Jupiter

Child of St Kilda (Waters Beth)(Pevná vazba)

Norman John Gillies was one of the last children ever born on St Kilda, five years before the whole population was evacuated forever. People had lived on these islands for over 4000 years, developing a thriving, tightly-knit society. Why and how did this ancient way of life suddenly cease in

Cryptonomicon (Stephenson Neal)(Paperback / softback)

Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that have shaped the past century. He weaves together the cracking of the Axis codes during WWII and the quest to establish a free South East Asian 'data

Complete Short Stories (Greene Graham)(Paperback)

The complete stories of a 20th century master of fiction Affairs, obsessions, ardors, fantasy, myth, legends, dreams, fear, pity, and violence--this magnificent collection of stories illuminates all corners of the human experience. Including four previously uncollected stories, this new complete

Night Watch - shortlisted for the Booker Prize (Waters Sarah)(Paperback / softback)

Sarah Waters, the award-winning author of three novels set in Victorian London, returns with a stunning novel that marks a departure from the 19th

Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found (Larson Frances)(Paperback)

A serious and seriously entertaining exploration of the dark and varied obsessions that the 'civilized West' has had with decapitated heads and

Comfort of Strangers (McEwan Ian)(Paperback / softback)

Rediscover the classic novel of love, violence and obsessions from Booker prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan. Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows no

Sarah Waters: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (Mitchell Kaye)(Paperback)

A multiple award-winning author, Sarah Waters is one of the most critically and commercially successful novelists writing today. In such novels as Fingersmith, Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and The Night Watch, her writing has played compellingly with popular and generic forms and narrative

St Kilda (Seton George)(Paperback)

The small island archipelago of St Kilda, which rises majestically from the stormy waters of the North Atlantic, has a magic and allure which is both enduring and inexplicable. For centuries, St Kilda's remoteness (it lies sixty miles west of the Scottish Hebrides), together with the way of life of

Waters of Eternal Youth - Brunetti 25 (Leon Donna)(Paperback)

In The Waters of Eternal Youth, the twenty-fifth instalment in the bestselling Brunetti series, our Commissario finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a crime at all. Brunetti is investigating a cold case by request of the grand Contessa Lando-Continui, a friend of Brunetti's

The Waters of Eternal Youth - Donna Leon

In The Waters of Eternal Youth, the twenty-fifth instalment in the bestselling Brunetti series, our Commissario finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a crime at all. Brunetti is investigating a cold case by request of the grand Contessa Lando-Continui, a friend of Brunetti's

The Waters of Eternal Youth - Donna Leon

In The Waters of Eternal Youth, the twenty-fifth instalment in the bestselling Brunetti series, our Commissario finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a crime at all. Brunetti is investigating a cold case by request of the grand Contessa Lando-Continui, a friend of Brunetti's

Collaborator (Waheed Mirza)(Paperback / softback)

By the waters running through the valleys of Kashmir, teenage boys come to play cricket, talk about girls, and just be. But a few years later, when they are young men and violence grips the region, they are gone. Only the son of the local headman has stay

Ship of the Line (Forester C. S.)(Paperback)

Hornblower leads his first ship of the line into enemy waters in this installment of C. S. Forester's beloved adventure series, called 'exciting, realistic, packed with grand naval action' by the New Yorker. May 1810, seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Horatio Hornblower is

Female Trouble: A Queer Film Classic (Holmlund Chris)(Paperback)

A Queer Film Classic on cinematic camp icon John Waters' 1974 dark comedy, starring the legendary Divine as Dawn Davenport, a young troublemaker who embarks on a mind-bending journey in a world where crime and beauty are the same. Chris Holmlund's book examines the film's camp aethestic and its