Josephine: 532 books

Meet Chloe, 21 from Leytonstone. She likes the simple things in life: cherry sambuca, hairbrush-in-the-mirror karaoke with Rihanna and winding her Dad up. Oh, and she's a boxer. London, 2012. Women will step into the Olympic boxing ring for the very first time. And it's in Stratford. Down the road....

Frog Under A Coconut Shell means in Malay, “Katuk Bawah Tempurong”, an idiom which likens someone to a frog that lives under a coconut shell, who believes the shell to be its entire world. It is a reference to the author’s own mother, who although herself uneducated and living in a parochial existence...

Beautifull written tale for younger readers, as a great bedtime story, or for older children to read for themselves.  

A collection of my personal poems and quotes from known people

The essays in this collection make up the first study of “dropping out” of late state socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. From Leningrad intellectuals and Berlin squatters to Bosnian Muslim madrassa students and Romanian yogis, groups and individuals across the Eastern Bloc rejected...

Everyone's heard about Black Beauty, probably the greatest horse that ever lived. But what about the rest of his family? Here we meet some of his other extraordinary relations, each with an amazing story to tell. There's his brother, Black Ebony, who is involved in a terrible mining accident; his...

"The sweet stories of God’s Word in easy language. The word Bible is from the Greek, and means The Book. It is made up of several small books, and when bound in two parts is known as The Old Testament and The New Testament. A testament is a will; and the bible is God's will made for...

An Idyll of All Fools' Day There flashed before Antony's eyes a quick panorama of the extended Frenchman, the kneeling doctor, the threatening men; his ears 37resounded with the gleeful cackle of that freckled Fate who had launched them, and then he faced an empty country road, silent but...

重新授權，全新重譯本 唐諾、詹宏志****專文導讀 小說家 甘耀明****推薦 推理史上第一奇書！歷史翻案小說代表作！ 「偵探領域的永恆經典！……而且是最精采的一本，歷久彌新。」——安東尼．鮑查（美國科幻、推理小說編輯、作家、評論家，美國推理作家協會創立者之一） 「不只是年度推理之最，更是經典推理之作！」——桃樂西．休斯（美國推理小說作者、評論家） 《時間的女兒》要談的是，多數我們認知的歷史，如何被人竊占了。至少它讓讀者去質疑歷史，而不是接受。――著名科幻小說作家舟．沃頓（Jo...

An autobiography told in poems, this selection of work spans more than 40 years, beginning with the avant-garde arts movement and political activism of the 1960s. A mixture of intense political poems, intimate love poems, and provocative reflections, it traces the journey of a woman intimately involved...

The accidental death of a teenage boy has a profound effect on a small Irish town in this compelling new novel from the bestselling author of Damage. As Sissy, the boy’s mother, struggles to overcome her senseless loss, her daughter, Olivia, works to keep her brother’s memory alive in a swiftly...

Two shocking novels of destructive obsession from a New York Times–bestselling author and “a remarkable talent” (The Washington Post Book World).   Sin: Ruth calls herself a malevolent creature, ruled since childhood by hatred and envy for her adopted sister, Elizabeth. She grew up in Elizabeth’s...