Our Gang - Starring Trick and His Friends (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

I Married a Communist (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American Pastoral.Ira Ringold is an American roughneck who transforms himself from a ditch-digger in 1930s New Jersey, to a radio hotshot in the 1940s. In his heyday as a star –

Indignation (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Now a major motion picture starring Sarah Gadon, Logan Lerman and Ben Rosenfield, and adapted for the screen by James SchamusDuring the second year of the Korean War in 1951, studious, law-abiding Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the conservative campus of Ohio's Winesburg

Anatomy Lesson (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

With his fortieth birthday receding into the distance, along with his hairline and his most successful novel, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. What will it

Exit Ghost (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman - incontinent and impotent - comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Walking the streets he quickly makes several connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. In a rash moment, he offers to

Le rabaissement (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Zuckerman Unbound (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

I Married a Communist (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

In his heyday as a star - and as a zealous, bullying supporter of 'progressive' political causes - Ira marries Hollywood's beloved leading lady, Eve Frame. This book charts the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, an American roughneck who begins life as a ditchdigger in 1930s New Jersey, becoming a

Patrimony - A True Story (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Patrimony is a true story about the relationship between a father and a son. Philip Roth watches as his eight-six-year-old father, famous for his vigour, his charm and his skill as a raconteur - lovingly called 'the Bard of Newark' - battles with the brain tumour that will kill

Philip Roth: The Biography (Bailey Blake)(Paperback)

'I don't want you to rehabilitate me,' Philip Roth said to his only authorized biographer, Blake Bailey. 'Just make me interesting.' Granted complete independence and access, Bailey spent almost ten years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and

Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books (Pierpont Claudia Roth)(Paperback)

A critical evaluation of Philip Roth--the first of its kind--that takes on the man, the myth, and the work Philip Roth is one of the most renowned writers of our time. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus, which won the National Book Award in 1960, and the explosion of Portnoy's Complaint in 1969 to

Scarecrow and His Servant (Pullman Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Oliver and the Seawigs (Reeve Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Along with his friends, a grumpy old albatross, a short-sighted mermaid, and a friendly island called Cliff, Oliver sets out to rescue his missing parents. On their perilous journey the friends meet evil islands, a boy called Stacey (not a girl's name), and more sea monkeys than you can wave some

Humbling (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Simon Axler is one of America's leading classical stage actors, but his talent - his magic - has deserted him. It is only when he begins an affair with Pegeen - formerly a lesbian of 17 years - that Axler's regeneration (and then his final catastrophe) can

Ghost Writer (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature,

Reading Myself And Others (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Philip Roth's writing career spans a remarkable five decades, a period that has seen him rise to become one of the greatest chroniclers of post-war American

Facts - A Novelist's Autobiography (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

How does a novelist write about the facts of his life after spending years fictionalising those facts with irrepressible daring and originality?What becomes of 'the facts' after they have been smelted down for art's

Trick or Treat, Parakeet? (Sims Lesley)(Paperback / softback)

It's Halloween and Parakeet is busy carving pumpkins and icing spooky treats. But when her friends come to call, they get a shock. Is that a GHOST who answers the door? A fun rhyming story, specially written to develop phonemic awareness, with lively illustrations by David

Scribbleboy (Ridley Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Bailey arrives in a new neighbourhood with his family. He has no friends but receives a mysterious invitation to join the Scribbleboy Fan Club. Swept along in plans to discover the identity of the mythical artist, Bailey carries on his work so the scribbles start again and eventually he discovers

Plot Against America (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A Lindbergh defeats Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invades every Jewish household in America. Lindbergh publicly blamed the Jews for pushing America towards a pointless war with Nazi

Portnoy's Complaint (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

[after Alexander Portnoy (1933-)]:A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Portnoy's Complaint tells the tale of young Jewish lawyer Alexander Portnoy and his scandalous sexual confessions

His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Book 1) (Pullman Philip)(Paperback)

HIS DARK MATERIALS IS NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, ANDREW SCOTT, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA!The modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an 'All-Time Greatest Novel' and Newsweek hailed as a 'Top 100 Book of All Time.' Philip Pullman takes readers to a

His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife (Book 2) (Pullman Philip)(Paperback)

HIS DARK MATERIALS IS NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, ANDREW SCOTT, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA! The spellbinding sequel to The Golden Compass, the modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an 'All-Time Greatest Novel' and Newsweek hailed as a 'Top 100 Book of

Sabbath's Theater (Roth Philip)(Paperback / softback)

'A work of near heroic vitality and cunning' Sunday TelegraphAt sixty-four Mickey Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly

Wordsmith Year 1 Who's Our New Teacher?(Paperback / softback)

The summer holidays are over. Jack and his friends are going back to school. This term is going to be different - they are getting a new teacher! Everyone wonders what the new teacher will be like. Some say she is batty. Others say she is ratty. But can she really be that