Play It As It Lays (Didion Joan)(Paperback / softback)

Play It as It Lays (Didion Joan)(Paperback)

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil---literally in Hollywood, Las

Play It As It Lays (Didion Joan)(Paperback / softback)

A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Albumand The Year of Magical

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Didion Joan)(Paperback / softback)

Joan Didion's savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties

Book of Common Prayer (Didion Joan)(Paperback / softback)

Where I Was From (Didion Joan)(Paperback / softback)

Last Thing He Wanted (Didion Joan)(Paperback / softback)

A thrilling and exhilarating exploration of U.S. politics in Central America from Joan Didion, the hugely acclaimed author of The Year of Magical Thinking.It is 1984. Journalist Elena McMahon, watching her evasive, gruff father's life ebbing away before her, clutches at understanding him to grasp

As You Like It(Paperback / softback)

White Album (Didion Joan)(Paperback / softback)

Joan Didion's hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the

South and West: From a Notebook (Didion Joan)(Paperback)

National Bestseller Joan Didion has always kept notebooks--of overheard dialogue, interviews, drafts of essays, copies of articles. Here are two extended excerpts from notebooks she kept in the 1970s; read together, they form a piercing view of the American political and cultural landscape. *One

Red Joan (Rooney Jennie)(Paperback / softback)

Cambridge University in 1937 is awash with ideas and idealists - to unworldly Joan it is dazzling. After a chance meeting with Russian-born Sonya and Leo, Joan is swept up in the glamour and energy of the duo, and finds herself growing closer and closer to them both. But allegiance is a slippery

Fuck It: Be at Peace with Life, Just as It Is (Parkin John)(Paperback / softback)

Joan of Arc (Castor Helen)(Paperback / softback)

The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it beforeA French peasant girl who heard voices from God, Joan convinced the royal court of her divine calling and became a teenage warrior, leading an army to victory against the

The Pleasures All Mine: A Sexual Memoir of a Submissive (Kelly Joan)(Paperback)

When Joan Kelly took a weekend job as a professional submissive in a private dungeon, it seemed she'd finally found a perfect outlet for her pent-up desires. Suddenly, Joan was being paid to do things she'd only fantasized about. Having spent several years scouring the Internet unsuccessfully for a

Blue Nights (Didion Joan)(Paperback / softback)

From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a

Miami (Didion Joan)(Paperback / softback)

A surprising portrait of the pastel city, a masterly study of Cuban immigration and exile, and a sly account of vile moments in the Cold War from one of the most significant writers of the modern

Street (Petry Ann)(Paperback / softback)

This gripping novel from 1946 is prescient and powerful; it is as relevant today as it was when first

Making It Up As I Go Along (Keyes Marian)(Paperback / softback)

Welcome to the magnificent Making It Up as I Go Along - aka the World According to Marian Keyes(TM) - A bold, brilliant book bursting with Marian's hilarious and heartfelt observations on modern life, love and much, much else besides. Such as? you are determined to ask. Well, how about her guide to

Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (Didion Joan)(Paperback)

Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the 'best prose written in this country.' More than perhaps any

Run River (Didion Joan)(Paperback)

Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California. Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers, and what happens

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Stoppard Tom)(Paperback / softback)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a play which, as it were, takes place in the wings of Hamlet, and finds both humour and poignancy in the situation of the ill-fated attendant lords. Its wit, stagecraft and verbal verve remain as exhilarating as they were then and the play has become a

Dance While You Can (Lewis Susan)(Paperback / softback)

It all started with a silly prank, a play and a dance - a love so enduring, so indestructible that it would survive against all odds. Elizabeth Sorrill is the junior matron at Foxton's elite School for

The White Album (Didion Joan)(Paperback)

First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan

Fury of Battle - A D-Day Landing As It Happened (Kershaw Robert)(Paperback / softback)

World As It Is - Inside the Obama White House (Rhodes Ben)(Paperback / softback)