The Atlantic Ocean. Essays on Britain and America, Main, Paperback - Andrew O'Hagan

A stunning collection of reportage from an acclaimed journalist and novelist hailed by the New York Times as 'the best essayist of his generation'....

Maria Tambini is a thirteen-year-old girl with a great singing voice. Growing up on a small Scottish island, she is ready for the big time and keen...

'I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive' -- Christopher Hit...

When Andrew Mawson arrived in Bromley-by-Bow in the east end of London, in the 1980s, it was in a state of social, economic and material disrepair....

Now in paperback, Fire and Steam tells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's first railway network, one of the most i...

A groundbreaking exploration of the difficult decisions Britain faces outside the EU in a fast-changing world.Publisher: Atlantic BooksAuthor(s): P...

The entertaining story of British cuisine and the hidden role it plays in all our lives.Publisher: Atlantic BooksAuthor(s): Pen VoglerNumber of pag...

With shades of Mare of Easttown, this is a beautifully written and profoundly compelling novel about sisters, mothers and daughters, and the terrib...

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish c...

Originally part of a set, now sold separately, Volume 3 of Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide is dedicated to Western Africa, along the Atlanti...

In that dark hour America saw its chance to challenge British dominance: her troops invaded Canada and American frigates attacked British merchant ...

Clears a devastating path from the bygone Glasgow of the 1970s to the grim secrets of Gloucester in the mid 1990s.

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Our Fathers is a powerful reclamation of the past from one of Britain's most accomplished literary novelists. Hug...

The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of his friend Marilyn Monroe - Andrew O'Hagan

Reducere. Always trust a stranger, said David's mother when he returned from Rome. It's the people you know who let you down. Half a life later, David is Fat...

Longlisted for the Booker Prize, Be Near Me is a brilliantly moving story of art and politics, love and change, and the way we live now. When an En...

Reducere. Here, in one volume for the first time, are the most important works of Henry David Thoreau, America's greatest nature writer and a political think...

Publisher: DOM PublishersIllustration(s): 700 images; 700 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 456Collection: Architectural GuidePublication ...

Reducere. DescriptionStuck in a corporate job rut and an unraveling marriage, Roz Savage realized that if she carried on as she was, she wasn't going to end ...

A magnificent account of one American platoon's tour of duty in Baghdad. It is simply one of the most powerful, nerve-shredding pieces of war writi...

A delightful and entertaining collection of a lifetime of musings, meditations and in-depth profiles about animals, by the bestselling author of Th...

Reducere. his book is compilation of a number of essays by the Chamorro writer, Julian Aguon, the author of Just Left of the Setting Sun. These essays are wr...

Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliantf...

Reducere. An unforgettable coming-of-age novel that becomes a profound mediation on life, death, and lifelong friendship. Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the fr...

A meditation on faith, art, music, grief and much more - from cultural icon and bestselling author Nick CavePublisher: Canongate BooksAuthor(s): Se...

A brilliant and soulful biography of one of today's most acclaimed singer-songwriters, Nick Cave.Publisher: Atlantic BooksAuthor(s): Mark (author) ...

Reducere. DescriptionJohn Cole wrote with passion about his life, the outdoors, and the glorious rhythms of nature. In Maine, like all his essays and books, ...

Providing an understanding of the nature of the archetypal form-patterns that express themselves in the similarity between substance and psychosoma...

Reducere. In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories--from John Smith's account ...

From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong friendship.

The knowledge, resources, and computing power of billions of people are self-organizing into a massive collective force. This book investigates how...

Bestselling novelist Michel Houellebecq, and bestselling philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy ('BHL'), are two of the most celebrated and controversial i...

A novel about separation, love across borders and over walls, and finding a place to call home.Publisher: Atlantic BooksAuthor(s): Yara ZgheibNumbe...

Reducere. Essays on Latinx and Caribbean identity and on globalization by renowned women writers, including Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, and Jamaica Kinc...

The first account of the role Britain played in Einstein's life--first by inspiring his teenage passion for physics, then by providing refuge from ...

A celebration of writers and their encounters with politics and public life from one of our greatest criticsPublisher: Atlantic BooksAuthor(s): Chr...

In a time of discouragement, how can the Church renew itself and its outreach to all people? Bishop Robert Barron insists that a "dumbed down" Cath...