Books from Bloomsbury
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Smoke in the Valley
By David KynastonContinuing his groundbreaking series about post-war Britain, Kynaston presents a breathtaking portrait of our nation through eyewitness accounts, newspapers of the time and previously unpublished diaries. Drawing on the everyday...
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Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Facsimile of the First Edition 1852
By Peter Mark RogetRoget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Facsimile of the First Edition 1852
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Spilt Milk, Black Coffee
By Helen CrossHandsome Amir, somewhere in his twenties, somewhere in a Yorkshire town, is torn between duty and lust. While his tradition-bound family urges him to choose a wife from a parade...
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This Is Happiness
By Niall WilliamsHarking back to a simpler time, This Is Happiness is a tender portrait of a community - its idiosyncrasies and traditions, its paradoxes and kindnesses, its failures and triumphs - and a coming-of-age tale like no other.
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An Ocean of Air: A Natural History of the Atmosphere
By Gabrielle WalkerIn 1960 Joe Kittinger fell to earth from the edge of space and lived. Inside a pressure suit, attached to a huge helium balloon, Kittinger freefell from where the earth's...
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Ashes of the Amazon
By Milton HatoumAshes of the Amazon is the story of a long rebellion and the struggle to understand it. The rebel is Mundo, the embittered offshoot of a family split down the...
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Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman : Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy
By Ben MacintyreEddie Chapman: rogue, criminal, confidence trickster, hero to both sides and betrayer of all. At the start of the Second World War, Chapman was recruited by the German Secret Service....
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The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989
By Frederick TaylorThe appearance of a hastily-constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was both dramatic and unexpected. Within days, it had started...
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Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes
By Ferdinand MountA pitch-perfect memoir, brilliantly funny, wise and moving, of family, friends and political life over the last sixty years. Ferdinand Mount's parents belonged to what came to be called 'Hobohemia',...
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Marie-Thérèse: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
By Susan NagelIn January, 1796, Marie-Therese, the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI arrived in Vienna in the care of her first cousin, the Holy Roman Emperor Francis II,...
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Loyalists
By Peter TaylorBased on a three-part BBC TV series, this is an inside account of the thinking, strategies and ruthless violence of the paramilitaries in Northern Ireland. The author draws on a...
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The Piano
By Jane CampionA young mute woman and her child travel to New Zealand in the 1800s for an arranged marriage to a farmer there. After the marriage she meets another man, and...
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Typically British?: The Prudential MORI Guide
By Eric Jacobs, Robert M. WorcesterBased on a specially commissioned MORI poll, the first edition of an annual publication which looks at trends and developments in Britain's view of itself and others. Includes regional comparisons.
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Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot
By Anna R. BeerA fresh and engaging account of the life, times, politics, loves, and letters of the great English poet John Milton on the four hundredth anniversary of his birth.John Milton is...
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What on Earth Evolved?: 100 Species that Changed the World
By Christopher LloydWhat is life? Why have creatures evolved as they are? Which species have been the most successful? Where does humanity fit in? Christopher Lloyd leads us on an extraordinary journey,...
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The Death of Sigmund Freud: Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Fundamentalism
By Mark EdmundsonWhen Hitler invaded Vienna in the winter of 1938, Sigmund Freud, old and desperately ill, was among the city's 175,000 Jews dreading Nazi occupation. For their part, the Nazis hated...
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Thinking About God: An Introduction to Theology
By Dorothee SölleGrowing out of a series of public lectures presented to a large audience of non-theologians, this book is one of the most attractive introductions to theology to appear in recent...
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No Time to Wave Goodbye
By Ben WicksWithin hours of the German invasion of Poland in 1939, children were being evacuated out of the cities into the countryside in a carefully planned operation. For all these children,...
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East is East
By Thomas Coraghessan BoyleEast is East
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Nixon: An Oliver Stone Film
By Oliver Stone, Christopher Wilkinson, Stephen J. RiveleThis is the companion book to the Hollywood film "Nixon". It includes the annotated screenplay, an interview with Oliver Stone, essays by prominent figures associated with Nixon and Watergate, previously...