Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind (Edwards Gavin)(Paperback)

Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind (Edwards Gavin)(Paperback)

In Last Night at the Viper Room, acclaimed author and journalist Gavin Edwards vividly recounts the life and tragic death of acclaimed actor River Phoenix--a teen idol on the fast track to Hollywood royalty who died of a drug overdose in front of West Hollywood's storied club, the Viper Room, at

Perfect Peace (Oz Amos)(Paperback / softback)

What he leaves behind stays behind. What's left behind has nothing to stare at but his back In the winter of 1965, Yonaton Lifshitz decided to leave the kibbutz on which he was born, and his sterile marriage, to start a new

The Great Fall (Handke Peter)(Paperback)

'On the day of the Great Fall he left nothing, nothing at all behind.' The latest work by Peter Handke, one of our greatest living writers, chronicles a day in life of an aging actor as he makes his way on foot from the outskirts of a great metropolis into its center. He is scheduled to receive a

Jacob's Room (Woolf Virginia)(Paperback)

He left everything just as it was.... Did he think he would come back?' Jacob's Room' was the first book in Virginia Woolf's unique, experimental style, making it an important text of early Modernism. Ostensibly, the story is about the life of Jacob Flanders, the title character, who is evoked

Hollywood (Bukowski Charles)(Paperback / softback)

Charles Bukowski lays bare Hollywood, revealing the absurdity and egotism behind the

Last Whalers - The Life of an Endangered Tribe in a Land Left Behind (Clark Doug Bock)(Paperback / softback)

The epic story of the world's last subsistence

Percy Jackson and the Olympians 5: The Last Olympian - Rick Riordan

Don't get left behind! Read the Percy Jackson series before the Disney+ series comes out. You'll be proud to be seen with this stunning paperback edition.*Riordan masterfully orchestrates the huge cast of characters and manages a coherent, powerful tale at once exciting, philosophical and

Crazy Horse - Paperback: The Lakota Warrior's Life & Legacy (The Edward Clown Family)(Paperback)

An in-depth recounting of the life of the Lakota war leader and the legacy he left behind, now in paperback. The Edward Clown family, nearest living relatives to the Lakota war leader, presents the family tales and memories told to them about their famous grandfather. In many ways the oral history

The Small Hours (Soper Katherine)(Paperback)

It's the middle of the night, and Peebs and Epi are the only students left at school over half-term. At the end of their night out, former step-siblings Red and Jazz try to navigate their reunion. With only a couple of hours until morning, Jaffa tries to help Keesh finish an essay. As day breaks,

The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin (Hill Geoffrey)(Pevná vazba)

At his death in 2016, Geoffrey Hill left behind The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin, his last work, a sequence of more than 270 poems, to be published posthumously as his final statement. Written in long lines of variable length, with much off-rhyme and internal rhyme, the verse-form of the

KANDAK - Fighting with Afghans (Hennessey Patrick)(Paperback / softback)

When the author returned home from Afghanistan, he left behind him surreal intensity and exhilaration of battle. He also left behind lasting bonds of friendship formed with his Afghan comrades Qiam, Syed and Majhib. This title tells of their first meetings, mutual suspicion and incomprehension, and

Caravan of The Lost and Left Behind (Shanahan Deirdre)(Paperback / softback)

Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe (Matzen Robert)(Paperback)

When he left Hollywood in March 1941, Jimmy Stewart was America's boy next door movie star and a recent Academy Award winner. He left all that behind to join the United States Army Air Corps and fulfill his family mission to serve his country--only to face obstacle after obstacle from both

The Secrets We Left Behind (Lane Soraya M.)(Paperback)

How far will they go for family, friendship, and love?Occupied France, 1940. When the staff at a field hospital draw straws to find out who will join the evacuation from Dunkirk, Nurse Cate is left behind. But when the Nazis arrive to claim prisoners of war, she takes her chance and flees into the

Peace at Last (Murphy Jill)(Paperback / softback)

The hour was late and Mr Bear was tired. But he could not sleep - however he tried and wherever he tried. Snore, snore went Mrs Bear. Tick-tock, tick-tock went the clock. Would he never get to

Journey to the End of the Night (Cline Louis-Ferdinand)(Paperback)

Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence,

Dark Blue: The Despair Behind the Glory - My Journey Back from the Edge (Carthy Shane)(Paperback)

Shane Carthy writes frankly and eloquently about his journey over the last five years. He details, without overdramatising, the downward spiral which, days after producing a man-of-the-match display in Dublin's 2014 Leinster under-21 final win over Meath, saw him wake up in St Patrick's Mental

Last Night in Twisted River (Irving John)(Paperback / softback)

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian

Collected Poems (Hayden Robert)(Paperback)

Robert Hayden was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century. He left behind an exquisite body of work, collected in this definitive edition, including A Ballad of Remembrance, Words in the Mourning Time, The Night-Blooming Cereus, Angle of Ascent, and American Journal, which

Wolf (Cross Gillian)(Paperback / softback)

Cassy's only image of her father is the photo he left behind, long ago, when he abandoned her. Where did he go? What made him leave her beautiful, simple mother? Cassy has never dared ask the question aloud-in case the answer is dangerous. But some questions are better left unanswered

The New Achilles (Cameron Christian)(Paperback)

Alexanor is a man who has seen too much blood. He has left the sword behind him to become a healer in the greatest sanctuary in Greece: he has turned his back on war.But war has followed him to his refuge at Epidauros, and now a battle to end the freedom of Greece is all around him. The

The Beast & the Sovereign (Derrida Jacques)(Paperback)

When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures. With The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1, the University of Chicago Press inaugurates an ambitious series, edited by Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf,

Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood (Douglas Robert)(Paperback)

A wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert Douglas's life was blighted by the cruel if sporadic presence of his father, it was equally blessed by the

Last Stand at Saber River (Leonard Elmore)(Paperback / softback)

A nail-biting, tough-talking classic western from the author of GET SHORTY and JACKIE