Category Archives: Caribbean
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through My Childhood
Bill Bryson`s first travel book opened with the immortal line, `I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.` In this deeply funny and personal memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, in the curious world of 1950s Middle America. It was a happy time, when almost everything was
Made in America: An Informal History of American English
โ€Funny, wise, learned and compulsive.โ€ (GQ). Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big Country, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and
Things Can Only Get Worse?: Twenty confusing years in the life of a Labour supporter
`Hilarious, insightful and has that rare quality of making politics fun. A brilliant book everyone should read, whoever you vote for.` Owen Jones, author of The EstablishmentFrom the giddy heights of New Labour`s landslide victory in 1997 to the shock result of the 2017 snap election, these are the frank and funny memoirs of one
Recollections of My Non-Existence
In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco, her home for the next twenty-five years. There she began the process of forging a voice in a society that preferred women to be silent. Liberated by West Coast activism, growing gay pride and punk rock, she broke through oppression and over time transformed
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* `Savage, funny, frequently on the verge of teetering into lunacy…` VogueDiscover this deliciously dark satire on modern privilege from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen It`s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? Our narrator has many of the advantages of life:
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
`Brilliant and disturbing` Yuval Noah HarariThe past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, the answer is Russia.In this visionary work of contemporary history, Timothy Snyder shows how Russia works within the West to destroy the West; by supporting
The Book of Night Women
By the Man Booker-winning author Marlon James, this is the powerful story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the Night Women – a clandestine council of fierce slaves plotting an island-wide revolt – recognize a dark force in her that
Cyber Sufis: Virtual Expressions of the American Muslim Experience
The internet has changed every aspect of life in the modern world, providing us with myriad new ways to communicate, work and learn. For a growing number of people it is also transforming the way they practise their religion. In America today, online spaces serve as critical alternatives for tech-savvy Muslims seeking a place to
John Crow`s Devil
The debut novel of the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015 Jamaica, 1957 On a day beginning with a bad omen – black vultures, known locally as John Crows, crash through the local church windows – a handsome and charismatic stranger drags the village preacher from his pulpit and takes over both church and
Pedro Paramo
Swearing to his dying mother that he`ll find the father he has never met, a certain Pedro Paramo, Juan Preciado sets out across the barren plains of Mexico for Comala, the hallucinatory ghost town his father presided over like a feudal lord. Between the realms of the living and the dead, in fragments of dreams
That`s The Way It Crumbles: The American Conquest of the English Language
Are we tired of hearing that fall is a season, sick of being offered fries and told about the latest movie? Yeah. Have we noticed the sly interpolation of Americanisms into our everyday speech? You betcha. And are we outraged? Hell, yes. But do we do anything? Too much hassle. Until now.In That`s The Way
I Hate the Internet: A Novel
In New York in the middle of the twentieth century, comic book companies figured out how to make millions from comics without paying their creators anything. In San Francisco at the start of the twenty-first century, tech companies figured out how to make millions from online abuse without paying its creators anything. In the 1990s,
American Heiress: The Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
Domestic terrorism. Financial uncertainty. Troops abroad, fighting an unsuccessful and bloody war against guerrilla insurgents. A violent generation gap emerging between a discontented youth and their disapproving, angry elders. This was the early seventies in America, and it was against this backdrop that the kidnapping of nineteen-year-old Patty Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Front –
Before Night Falls
Reinaldo Arenas was born to a poverty-stricken family in rural Cuba. By the time of his death in New York four decades later, he had become one of Cuba`s most important poets, an outspoken critic of Castro`s regime and one of the leading gay voices of the twentieth century. In Before Night Falls, Arenas tells
Churchill: Great Lives in Graphic Form
The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world`s greatest thinkers and creative. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of them in vivid snapshots. Many people know that Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was a
Hasselblad & the Moon Landing
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people ever to set foot on the Moon, their iconic โ€small stepsโ€ captured forever by the camera the astronauts carried with them: the Hasselblad 500EL. This book looks at the history of the Apollo 11 mission through the lens of the Hasselblad, while
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
โ€In an iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in American culture to a disturbing examination of recent Holocaust compensation agreements. It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel`s evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy,
Road Kill
I should have known that Eli would be a believer in favours. Not just the odd favour here and there, but the life-or-death ones you have to drag around with you forever. Eli and Ronnie are two lawless Brits on the road in America. Their mission is to find Trent, a guy who screwed Eli
Insight Guides Puerto Rico
Blessed with glorious beaches, spectacular mountain ranges and lush, green rainforest, Puerto Rico offers fantastic outdoor activities, cultural sights, plus great food and music. Insight Guide Puerto Rico provides detailed coverage of this fascinating country, while full-colour photography and maps help you navigate with ease. Our detailed Travel Tips give you all the practical information
Silver Bullets
For Detective Edgar โ€Leftyโ€ Mendieta, tormented by past heartbreak and dismayed by all-pervasive corruption, the murder of lawyer Bruno Canizales represents just another day at the office in Culiacan, Mexico`s capital of narco-crime. There is no shortage of suspects in a city where it`s hard to tell the gangsters from the politicians. Canizales was the
