The Plastic Tomato Cutter
A delightful story of love and snooker, of old customs giving way to outrageous youthful behaviour.
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Terence Rattigan: A Biography
SHORT-LISTED FOR THE 1995 WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY PRIZE
‘Wansell provides much the fullest portrait of Rattigan so far… taking you as close to the man as you are likely to get.’ Sunday Telegraph
The Wrong Kind of Shirts: Outrageous Football Excuses, Rants and Verbal Own Goals
A hilarious collection of the confusing outpourings of British football managers and pundits.
Mrs Merton’s Friendship Book
A guaranteed Christmas bestseller from Mrs Merton, queen of the chat show and the latest comedy sensation to hit TV: ‘Brilliant… forget Alan Partridge, this is the most subversive chat show ever.’ Daily Mail
New Britain: My Vision of a Young Country
The book from the very heart of the New Labour Party; the most personal and extensive portrait of a leader in advance of a General Election. Tony Blair gives his thinking about the future of Britain.
We Should Know Better: Solving the education crisis
Does for Education what ‘The State We’re In’ did for Economics
The Hat of Victor Noir
A surreal black comedy set in Paris by the most talented British newcomer since Louis de Bernieres.
The Cove Shivering Club
The certificate read: ‘Having attained the age of ten years and having completed the crossing off the Cove, JUNIOR NASH is thereby deemed a member of the Cove Shivering Club and entitled to vote in the Presidential Election.’
Misbegotten
A brilliantly constructed thriller by a 26 year old Harvard law student exposing the dark side of suburbia and depicting an inconceivably chilling character in episodes of mounting horror. This is Stephen King meets Ira Levin; ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ with a background of artificial insemination.
The Sunken Road
A consummate masterpiece of structure and style, ‘The Sunken Road’ belongs firmly in the bestselling tradition of Carol Shields’s ‘The Stone Diaries’.
Homosexuality: A History
A survey from the earliest times of male and female homosexuality and its culture worldwide.
Songs in Ordinary Time
The international No.1 bestseller and the most astonishing publishing success story since The Bridges of Madison County.
Jackie Under My Skin: Interpreting an icon
A dazzling, witty and highly original tribute to Jackie Onassis, one of the twentieth-century’s most alluring and enigmatic cultural icons.
Engines of Creation
‘Engines of Creation is by far the best book I have seen about the consequences of new technologies. It is ambitious and imaginative and, best of all, the thinking is technically sound.’ Marvin Minsky, Donner Professor of Science, MIT