When the skeletal remains of a man brought down by shotgun surface on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway, writer, drinker, and ex-cop Mario Conte reluctantly accepts a reinstatement to investigate the forty-year-old crime. As the truth of the night of
It was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century and Tolstoy called it "the greatest of all novels." Yet today Victor Hugo's Les Misérables is neglected by readers and undervalued by critics. In The Temptation of the Impossible, one of the
'Fever Pitch with testosterone and eight pints of lager. Like Fever Pitch, it is not exclusively a novel about football. This is a chronicle of a lost tribe - the white, Anglo-Saxon, heterosexual who is fed up with being told he is crap. It is the story o
Mario Vargas Llosa, renowned as a novelist, is one of our most brilliant and provocative public intellectuals as well. In "Making Waves," the first collection of his essays, he explores, with characteristic brio and elegance, his long-standing preoccupati
Qui n'a pas connu l'été 1977 à Slough n'a pas connu la douceur de vivre. C'était l'époque des premières Doc Martens, du punk rock et du reggae, des bastons avec les Teds et des nuits électriques au pub, quand toutes les filles s'appelaient Debbie H
A riveting story of class-hatred and murder from the bestselling author of Human Punk and The Football Factory.A classic tale of good against evil pits nurse against consultant; working-class woman against upper-middle-class man. Ruby is a nurse who enjoy
“Tribal Leadership gives amazingly insightful perspective on how people interact and succeed. I learned about myself and learned lessons I will carry with me and reflect on for the rest of my life.”—John W. Fanning, Founding Chairman and CEO napster
In Skinheads, John King takes us inside skinhead culture today and explains how it never really went away.Skinheads is the story of a way of life, told through three generations of a family: Terry English, original ska-loving skinhead and boss of a mini-c
