Books from Eye Books (US&CA)
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Sour Grapes
By Dan Rhodes'Dan Rhodes is a true original' – Hilary Mantel When the sleepy English village of Green Bottom hosts its first literary festival, the good, the bad and the ugly of the book world descend upon its leafy lanes.
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What on Earth Can Go Wrong: Tales from the Risk Business
By Richard FenningRichard Fenning has spent three decades advising multinational companies on volatile geopolitics and severe security crises.
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Frigid Women
By Dawn French, Sue Riches, Victoria RichesSue Riches, recently recovering from a mastectomy, and her daughter Victoria were among them, and this is their inspirational story of personal accomplishment.
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Anyone for Edmund?
By Simon EdgeSplicing ancient and modern as he did in The Hopkins Conundrum and A Right Royal Face-Off, Simon Edge pokes fun at Westminster culture and celebrates the cult of a medieval saint in this beguiling and utterly original comedy.
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Hopkins Conundrum: A Tragic Comedy About Gerard Manley Hopkins and Five Shipwrecked Nuns
By Simon EdgeBlending the real stories of Hopkins and the shipwrecked nuns he wrote about with a contemporary love story, while casting a wry eye on the Dan Brown industry, The Hopkins Conundrum is a highly original mix of commercial fiction, literary ...
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Time of Lies: A Political Satire
By Douglas BoardSet against the 2020 general election, a monstrous rightwing demagogue with a hardcore following of violent young thugs stages an anti-elite coup to win power. A Very British Coup as rewritten by Tom Sharpe.
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We Are Animals
By Tim EwinsLeave.But maybe an annoying teenager is exactly what Jan needs to help him find the missing thief?Featuring a menagerie of creatures, each with its own story to tell, We Are Animals is a quirky, heart-warming tale of lost love, unlikely ...
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Stone Heart Deep
By Paul Bassett DaviesStone Heart Deep is a compelling and claustrophobic thriller with a remarkable twist, as if Iain Banks had rewritten The Wicker Man.
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Cry from the Highest Mountain
By Joanna Lumley, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tess BurrowsAs the crow flies, the border with Nepal and Chomolungma, the mighty Everest, is only 180 kilometres away, but their route was to take them round mountains, over passes and across steep and difficult terrain to Sikkim, the Indian 'arm' ...
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Noise Damage: My Life as a Rock & Roll Underdog
By James KennedyThe tale that follows is not another clichéd collection of rock'n'roll debaucheries (sorry) nor is it another tired fable of triumph over adversity (you're welcome).It's the story of a half-deaf kid from a tiny, remote village in South ...
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Please Do Not Ask for Mercy as a Refusal Often Offends
By Paul Bassett DaviesDetective Kilroy is assigned to investigate a horrible murder.
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Boy Who Biked the World: Part Two: Riding the Americas
By Alastair HumphreysWith engaging illustrations, maps, and handwritten journal entries throughout, this book provides an immersive experience for any young adventurer.
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Boy Who Biked the World: Part Three: Riding Home through Asia
By Alastair Humphreys, Tom Morgan-JonesBased on the author's personal experiences and with engaging illustrations, maps and handwritten journal entries throughout, this book provides an immersive experience for any young adventurer.
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Moods of Future Joys: Around the World by Bike Part One: From England to South Africa
By Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Alastair HumphreysThis book recounts an epic journey that succeeded through Humphreys' trust in the kindness of strangers, at a time where the interactions of our global community are more confused and troubled than ever.
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Riding with Ghosts
By Gwen MakaFrank and often outrageous, this is an account of a 40-something Englishwoman's epic 4,000 mile cycle ride from Seattle to Mexico, via the snow-covered Rockies, mostly alone and camping in the wild.
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Raindrop in the Ocean: The Extraordinary Life of a Global Adventurer
By Michael Dobbs-HigginsonA unique memoir in which a young adventurer from colonial Rhodesia charms his way around the world, sleeping in stately homes and public toilets, smuggling drugs across several borders, and losing a $50 million fortune to the CIA, before ...
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The Midas Game
By Abi SilverDid he target her because of her anti-gaming views and the work she undertook to expose the dangers of playing online games?
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Aftershock: One Man's Quest and the Quake on Everest
By Jules MountainJules Mountain is a survivor. The odds of surviving his type of cancer were one in five. The odds of dying on Everest are one in 60, but these are severely shortened when factoring in an avalanche triggered by the 2015 Nepal earthquake.
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All Will Be Well
By Michael MeeganTaking a unique approach to self-help, this guide demonstrates how conveying love and compassion to others—whether communicated through a simple smile or by holding a dying soul—can act as antidotes to the often painful human condition.
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Morgan Tsvangirai: At the Deep End
By T William Bango, Morgan TsvangiraiMorgan Tsvangirai's dramatic political battle with Zimbabwe’s dictatorial monolith Robert Mugabe stands as one of the most intriguing and important world events of recent times—this is his autobiography From village life as the son of a ...