AS the twentieth century breathes its very last, with Britpop at its zenith, twenty-seven-year-old A&amp;R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through Londons music industry. Blithely crisscrossing the globe in search of the next megahitfueled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaineStelfox freely indulges in an unending orgy of self-gratification. But the industry is changing fast and the hits are drying up, and the only way hes going to salvage his sagging career is by taking the idea of cutthroat to murderous new levels.

Kill Your Friends: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Niven, John

Dramas & Plays

Harper-perennial

Gary Irvine's wife refuses to sleep with him, so he pursues an even stingier mistress: golf. But despite his spending unconscionable amounts of time and money, his game is wretched. Until the day he takes a perfect swing . . . and then everything goes black. After waking up from a coma a few weeks later, with a golf-ball-sized dent in his temple, Gary discovers that his last perfect swing has been imprinted on his brain. However, his newfound prowess is accompanied by some troubling side effects, most noticeably Tourette's. As Gary miraculously advances to the final round of the British Open, his delinquent brother, Lee, stumbles from one botched drug deal to another, his orbit drawing ever nearer to the terrifying local crime lord Ranta Campbell. With their lives on the line, Gary and Lee must rediscover the ties that bind to survive a blood-soaked final round.

The Amateurs: A Novel

“Brilliant.” —GQ 
"Hilarious.” — The Times (London) 
“A novel about golf that is not only hilarious, but gripping, sexy, violent, and outrageous. . . . Niven combines his increasingly bizarre plots, and some shocking behavior, with considerable skill and, of course, large helpings of humor.” — The Mirror 
From Kill Your Friends author John Niven, The Amateurs is a side-splitting and whip-smart examination of golf, infidelity, and how little white balls make some men insane.

The Amateurs

Vintage

Kill Your Friends

Humor & Satire

Windmill Books

Straight White Male

Literary

WINDMILL

_____________________________'Hilarious' ADAM KAY'Mind-blowingly brilliant' DAILY MAIL'Highly entertaining' EVENING STANDARD'Loved it' ROBERT WEBB_____________________________Frank Brill, a retired small-town newspaper editor, has just been given a terminal diagnosis.Rather than compile a bucket list of all the things he's ever wanted to do in his life, he instead has at the ready his 'fuck-it list'. Because Frank has had to endure more than his fair share of personal misfortune, not to mention having to live through two terms of a Trump presidency.Armed with the names of all those who are to blame for the tragedies that have befallen him, it's time for revenge.

The F*ck-it List

RANDOM HOUSE UK

The Sunshine Cruise Company

Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy

A full-scale life and times biography of an important Civil War figure.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Oxford University Press

A biography of the eighth president of the United States examines Van Buren's distinguished political career in terms of the era in which he lived and worked

Martin Van Buren: The Romantic Age of American Politics

Leaders & Notable People

Salmon P. Chase was one of the preeminent men of 19th-century America. A majestic figure, tall and stately, Chase was a leader in the fight to end slavery, a brilliant administrator who as Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury provided crucial funding for a vastly expensive war, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the turmoil of Reconstruction, and the presiding officer of the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. Yet he was also a complex figure. As John Niven reveals in this magisterial biography, Chase was a paradoxical blend of idealism and ambition. If he stood for the highest moral purposes--the freedom and equality of all mankind--these lofty ideas failed to mask a thirst for power so deeply ingrained in his character that it drove away many who shared his principles, but mistrusted his motives. Niven provides a vivid description of Chase's early years--his childhood in New Hampshire (where his father's failed business venture and early death left the family all but destitute) and in Ohio (where he was sent to live with his uncle Philander, an Episcopal bishop), his education at Dartmouth, and his early law career in Cincinnati. Niven shows how the plight of the slaves stirred this reticent young lawyer, and how Chase gradually moved to the forefront of the antislavery movement. At the same time, we see how he used his growing prominence in the antislavery movement to forward his political ambitions. Niven illuminates Chase's long tenure as a public man. Twice elected United States Senator, twice chosen governor of Ohio (then the third most populous state in the Union), Chase organized the widespread but diffuse anti-slavery movement into a workable political organization, the Free Soil party (whose slogan "Free Soil, Free Labor, Freemen" Chase coined himself). We read of Chase's work in Lincoln's war cabinet and his tenure as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and we also follow his many political maneuvers, his attempts to undercut rivals, and his poorly run campaigns for presidential nominations. Niven also provides an intimate portrait of Chase's family life--his loss of three wives and four of his six children, and the unfortunate marriage of his beautiful daughter Kate to a rich but dissolute man--and a vivid picture of life at mid-century. What emerges is a portrait of a tragic figure, whose high qualities of heart and mind and whose many achievements were ultimately tarnished by an often unseemly quest for power. It is a striking look at an eminent statesman as well as a revealing glimpse into political life in 19th-century America, all set against a background of the anti-slavery movement, the Civil War, and the turmoil of Reconstruction.

Salmon P. Chase: A Biography

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