Valentine Ackland: A Transgressive Life (Bingham Frances)(Paperback)

Valentine Ackland: A Transgressive Life (Bingham Frances)(Paperback)

'One November evening in 1925, two young women from London arrived at the village of Chaldon, in Dorset. They brought with them two suitcases, a gramophone, and a wooden boxful of records; the bare necessities. Both wore trousers and had Eton-cropped hair. The taller of the two, Mrs Turpin, had

Life Discarded - 148 Diaries Found in a Skip (Masters Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the suspense of a murder mystery. Written with his characteristic warmth, respect and humour, Masters asks you to join him in celebrating an unknown and important life left on the scrap

Rule of Law (Bingham Tom)(Paperback / softback)

Jungle of Worries (Bingham Laura)(Paperback / softback)

Mountains of Dreams (Bingham Laura)(Paperback / softback)

Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight (Valentine Jenny)(Paperback / softback)

Two boys. One identity. He can change his life if he says

Little First Stickers Building Site (Bingham Jane (EDFR))(Paperback / softback)

'Tis (McCourt Frank)(Paperback / softback)

Frank McCourt continues his life story in the brilliant, bestselling sequel to the million-selling 'Angela's

Spies and Stars - MI5, Showbusiness and Me (Bingham Charlotte)(Paperback / softback)

Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. A Magical Childhood (Baum L. Frank)(Paperback / softback)

My Life in France (Child Julia)(Paperback)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Julia's story of her transformative years in France in her own words is 'captivating ... her marvelously distinctive voice is present on every page.' (San Francisco Chronicle). Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook

Poems and Selected Letters (Franco Veronica)(Paperback)

Veronica Franco (whose life is featured in the motion picture Dangerous Beauty) was a sixteenth-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collection captures the frank eroticism and impressive eloquence that set her apart from the chaste, silent woman prescribed by Renaissance gender

Life in Revolutionary France (Harder Mette)(Paperback)

The French Revolution brought momentous political, social, and cultural change. Life in Revolutionary France asks how these changes affected everyday lives, in urban and rural areas, and on an international scale. An international cast of distinguished academics and emerging scholars present new

Certain Idea of France - The Life of Charles de Gaulle (Jackson Julian)(Paperback / softback)

My Good Life in France (Marsh Janine)(Paperback)

One grey dismal day, Janine Marsh was on a trip to northern France to pick up some cheap wine. She returned to England a few hours later having put in an offer on a rundown old barn in the rural Seven Valleys area of Pas de Calais. This was not something she'd expected or planned for. Janine

Penguin Readers Level 2: The Extraordinary Life of Anne Frank (ELT Graded Reader)(Paperback / softback)

Life in a Medieval City (Gies Frances)(Paperback)

'Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention... Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City, both by Joseph and Frances Gies.' --George R.R. Martin, author of the series A Song of Ice and FireMedieval history comes alive in Frances and Joseph

Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth (Cottrell Boyce Frank)(Paperback / softback)

An out-of-this-world funny book from master storyteller Frank Cottrell Boyce, with illustrations throughout by Steven Lenton, shortlisted for the 2017 Carnegie Medal and selected for the Tom Fletcher Book

Frances: The Tragic Bride (Hyams Jacky)(Paperback)

She was young, very beautiful, and had everything to live for but the life of Frances Shea, briefly married to Reggie Kray, remains one of the most tragic stories of the Swinging Sixties. Courted by Reggie as a schoolgirl, her eight year relationship with him drew Frances into a world of

Island Years Island Farm (Darling Frank Fraser)(Paperback)

Unhappily land-locked in his early adult life, Frank Fraser Darling's fortunes changed when he began visiting Scotland's west coast in the 1930s. Surviving treacherous boat journeys, a broken leg, and hell-bent storms, he made temporary homes with his family on some of the remotest Hebridean

Bleakwarrior (Rennie Alistair)(Paperback)

Praise for Alistair Rennie and BleakWarrior 'Transgressive and hard-edged' - Jeff VanderMeer, Nebula award winning author of the Southern Reach trilogy 'Flabbergasting Black Metal New Weird' - Edward Morris, author of the Blackguard series 'Death, violence, and inappropriate sex' - Neil

100 Boyfriends (Purnell Brontez)(Paperback)

Transgressive, foulmouthed, and brutally funny, Brontez Purnell's 100 Boyfriends is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting the urge to self-sabotage. As they tiptoe through minefields of romantic, substance-fueled misadventure-from dirty warehouses and

Motel Life (Vlautin Willy)(Paperback / softback)

Opening like an early Tom Waits barstool-tale, The Motel Life tells the story of two brothers, Frank and Jerry

The Life of Henry Brulard (Stendhal)(Paperback)

The Life of Henry Brulard is the autobiography of one of France's greatest writers, Stendhal, author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. Here, writing at white heat and with such ferocious honesty and indignation that his book was to remain unpublishable for more than a century