High-Rise
From the author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Cocaine Nights’ comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control.
Urban communities
Plot 29: A Memoir: LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD AND WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE
‘When I am disturbed, even angry, gardening has been a therapy. When I don’t want to talk I turn to Plot 29, or to a wilder piece of land by a northern sea. There, among seeds and trees, my breathing slows; my heart rate too. My anxieties slip away.’
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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 Revolution.
The Crash of Hennington
Love is political, obsessive and utterly strange in the first novel from the author of the Chaos Walking trilogy and new novel ‘More Than This’.
Stuart: A Life Backwards: Unabridged edition
A unique biography of a homeless man and a complete portrait of the hidden underclass.
Mark Steel’s In Town
On the way to a show in Skipton, in North Yorkshire, I noticed a road sign to a town called Keighley. So later, during the show, I mentioned this, asking the audience, ‘Is that your rival town?’ And the room went chillingly quiet, until one woman called out with understated menace, ‘Keighley is a sink of evil.’
Threepenny Memoir: The Lives of a Libertine
The extraordinary life and times of Carl Barat, Libertine.
Threepenny Memoir: The Lives of a Libertine: Unabridged edition
The extraordinary life and times of Carl Barat, Libertine.READ BY CARL BARAT!
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town
The incredible true story of a a football team in the United States made up of refugee children.
Hopping
The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys – the locals of the old East End.
Silvertown: An East End family memoir
Melanie McGrath’s critically acclaimed East End family memoir now in paperback.