Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

In the near future, after a storm strikes New York City, the strangenesses begin. A down-to-earth gardener finds that his feet no longer touch the ground. A graphic novelist awakens in his bedroom to a mysterious entity that resembles his own sub-Stan Lee creation. A seductive gold digger is soon

Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 - Salman Rushdie

Newly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction from the first two decades of the twenty-first century—including many texts never previously in print—by the Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling authorSalman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order,

Golden House (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

Joseph Anton - A Memoir (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life forever: Ayatollah Khomeini, a leading Muslim scholar, had issued him with a death sentence. This book offers an account of how he was forced to live in hiding for over a

Iron Gods - (The Spin Trilogy 2) (Bannister Andrew)(Paperback / softback)

The Spin - an ancient artificial cluster of eighty-eight planets and twenty-one suns - is in decline. For millennia, the people of Three Quarter Circle Harbour have watched the stars from their world, hidden in a forgotten corner of the

Home - Vintage Minis (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

A self-described 'emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two', the author explores the true meaning of home. He looks at what it means to belong, whether roots are real and homelands imaginary, what it is like to reconfigure your past from fragments of memory and what happens when East meets

Grimus (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

But after 777 years of sailing the world's seas, he becomes weary of life, and sets out to find the mystical Calf Island, a place where his fellow immortals have gathered and created their own version of the human race. But Calf Island is a strange place - like its inhabitants, it is both blessed

Shame (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie's phantasmagoric epic Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared

Eight Men (Wright Richard)(Paperback / softback)

'All eight men and all eight stories stand as beautifully, pitifully, terribly true... Here are Richard Wright's stories of eight men - black men, living at violent odds with the white world around

Americana (DeLillo Don)(Paperback / softback)

David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his

A Forger's Tale: Confessions of the Bolton Forger (Greenhalgh Shaun)(Paperback)

In 2007, Bolton Crown Court sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the crime of producing artistic forgeries. Working out of a shed in his parents' garden, Greenhalgh had successfully fooled some of the world's greatest museums. During the court case, the breadth of

Satanic Verses (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

Just before dawn one winter’s morning, a hijacked aeroplane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea: Gibreel Farishta, India’s legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices

Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (Mantel Hilary)(Paperback / softback)

From the two-time Man Booker Prize winner author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodiesand The Mirror & the Light, a prescient and haunting novel of life in Saudi

Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women's Lives: Eight Monologues (Featherstone Vicky)(Paperback)

A collection of eight ambitious and challenging monologues written by women to mark 100 years of Suffrage, produced by the BBC and curated by Royal Court Artistic Director, Vicky Featherstone, in association with the Royal Court

Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell George)(Paperback / softback)

A new and definitive edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four, introduced and annotated by Orwell's prize-winning biographer. With additional content from Orwell

Black Elfstone: Book One of the Fall of Shannara (Brooks Terry)(Paperback / softback)

Through twenty-eight novels written over the course of forty years, Terry Brooks's Shannara series has entranced millions of readers around the world. Now, with The Black Elfstone - the first book in the Fall of Shannara - Terry begins to bring his epic vision to a grand

Moor's Last Sigh (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

A family tale of mad passions and volcanic family hatreds, of titanic matriarchs and their mesmerised offspring, of premature deaths and curses that strike beyond the

Muse Guitar Songbook(Paperback / softback)

Muse Guitar Songbook contains twenty-eight accurate guitar transcriptions of their classic guitar songs, including Starlight, Madness and Uprising. All songs are transcribed for guitar and voice in standard notation and

Burning Your Boats - Collected Short Stories (Carter Angela)(Paperback / softback)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SALMAN RUSHDIEAs well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four wonderful collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several anthologies. The stories were scattered amongst different publishers, and a couple of the volumes are now

Around the Coast in Eighty Waves (Bennett Jonathan)(Paperback)

Living in an old, unheated camper for fourteen months, during the coldest winter in thirty years, Jonathan Bennett traveled clockwise around Britain, surfing every beach he could catch a wave. From the Isle of Harris to the Lizard Peninsula, from Orkney to Anglesey, from Sandwood Bay to Sussex, he

Haroun and Luka (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

Haroun: What's the use of stories that aren't even true? I asked that question and the Unthinkable Thing happened: my father can't tell stories anymore. That means no more laughter in the city of Alifbay and now the place stinks of sadness. So it's up to me to put things

East, West (Rushdie Salman)(Paperback / softback)

This dazzling collection of short stories explores the allure and confusion of what happens when East meets West. With one foot in the East and one foot in the West, this collection reveals the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between the

Witches Bible (Farrar Janet)(Paperback / softback)

This collection includes two books in one volume, Eight Sabbats for Witches and The Witches' Way and is the most comprehensive and revealing work on the principles, rituals and beliefs of modern

Being Billy (Earle Phil)(Paperback / softback)

Eight years in a care home makes Billy Finn a professional lifer. And Billy's angry - with the system, the social workers, and the mother that gave him away. As far as Billy's concerned, he's on his own. His little brother and sister keep him going, though they can't keep him out of trouble. But he