Blood Meridian : Or, the Evening Redness in the West

Literature & Fiction

cormac-mccarthy

Genre Fiction

Picador UK

A Man in Full

1st Picador 1999 trade edition paperback, fine In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Tom Wolfe

Contemporary

Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel

Bridget Jones wants to have it all - and once she's given up smoking and got down to 8st 7 she will. Based on Helen Fielding's diary in the Independent newspaper, this is a novel about a year in the life of a single girl on an optimistic but doomed quest for self-improvement and Inner Poise. First published in 1996.

Bridget Jones's diary: A novel

helen-fielding

Humor & Satire

Cormac McCarthy's award-winning, bestselling trio of novels chronicles the coming-of-age of two young men in the south west of America. John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, two cowboys of the old school, are poised on the edge of a world about to change forever. Their journeys across the border into Mexico, each an adventure fraught with fear and pain, mark a passage into adulthood, and eventual salvation. In All the Pretty Horses, young John Grady Cole, dispossessed by the sale of his family's Texas ranch, heads across the border in search of the cowboy life, where he finds a job breaking horses, and a dangerously ill-fated romance. In The Crossing, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch and, instead of killing it, decides to take it on a perilous journey home to the mountains of Mexico. These two drifters come together years later in Cities of the Plain, a magnificent tale of friendship and passion. In the vanishing world of the Old West, blood and violence are conditions of life. Beautiful and brutal, filled with sorrow and humour, The Border Trilogy is both an epic love story and a fierce elegy for the American frontier. McCarthy makes the sweeping plains a miracle' Scotsman

The Border Trilogy

MCCARTHY, CORMAC

Dark horses: An experience of literary journalism

This work offers Karl Miller's recollections of author's such as Kingsley Amis, Seamus Heaney and Muriel Spark, as well as his reflections on football and the new "laddism". Miller is a former literary editor of "The Spectator" and the "New Statesman".

Karl Miller

Essays & Correspondence

The Late Hector Kipling

David Thewlis

Museum Guard Norman Howard

NORMAN, Howard

Kate Linden is a 35 year old single mother, who dreams of a rosy future with a dream man who will love both her and her son Sam. But while she's waiting for the arrival of that unknown saviour, she finds herself entangled with her handsome, domineering cousin Julian, the son of her dead mother's twin sister. As she returns to Julian's childhood home in Norfolk for a family weekend, Kate is drawn back into the mysteries that haunt her. What was the truth of the relationship between her mother and Julian's father? Who was responsible for her mother's death in a car crash? How will the patterns of that dark past repeat themselves, or can she escape them? Justine Picardie writes with a clear, beautiful voice about family intrigues and intricacies. WISH I MAY is a story about the shadows cast by the past, but also of a sustaining hope for the future, and the magical transformations of love. 'A seductive tale about secrets and the ghosts of childhood' Independent 'A beautiful, elegiac and intensely readable novel. Justine Picardie writes very movingly about the bonds between the living and the dead, the horrors and rewards of family life, and one woman's search for happiness' Zoe Heller

Wish I May

Picardie, Justine

Nowhere Man

Hemon, Aleksandar

Ibn Battutah—ethnographer, bigrapher, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist—was just 21 when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgramage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another 29 years, traveling instead through more than 40 countries on the modern map, covering 75,000 miles and getting as far north as the Volga, as far east as China, and as far south as Tanzania. He wrote of his travels, and comes across as a superb ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian, and occasional botanist and gastronome. With this edition by Mackintosh-Smith, Battuta's Travels takes its place alongside other indestructible masterpieces of the travel-writing genre.

The Travels of Ibn Battutah

Battutah, Ibn

Sports & Outdoors

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