Nigel: 1192 books

Written by Nigel Watson of the Antarctic Heritage Trust, and illustrated with Jane Ussher's stunning photographs, historic images and never-before-seen ephemera, this is the first book to fully document and celebrate the contribution Sir Edmund Hillary and the New Zealand team made to Antarctic history,...

Des vies cassées offre un portrait de Montréal que l’on voit rarement. Itinéraires de vies broyées. Tout un peuple d’immigrants invisibles croupissent à côté de leurs rêves. Manière différente de vivre et de voir l’exil quand on est anglophone noir dans un Montréal francophone blanc....

Murder, mayhem, and Rock n Roll, add in a serial killer from Hell and all combine to make a very interesting read in this tense thriller from Hertfordshire-based author Nigel Ledsham-Darter. It’s nineteen-seventy-nine and Margaret Thatcher has just come to power. On the back of the punk movement...

The story of today’s Jeep Wrangler has an intriguing and unusual beginning, when the demands of the American army during the Second World War led to the production of a simple, yet multi-purpose, go-anywhere vehicle that could easily (and cheaply) be mass-produced. This book looks at how the original...

Carlos is a young teenage mastermind with relentless ambition who is determined to become a hood legend. Carlos grooms his best friend Kendrick into the perfect partner in crime, but the stakes rise when they unknowingly rob a crooked cop named Officer Miles. Carlos has immortality on his mind, a...

I still can't believe I'm standing in Miss Moore's kitchen in this bathrobe. Even more unbelievable is the fact I'm actually living out my boyhood fantasy. I can hardly wait to see what my teacher has in store for me. It makes me wonder where things are headed, but then again. Who cares, right?

Set in the early nineties, Nigel J Borthwick's novel explores the intricacies of human nature. The story addresses big questions about the mysteries and nuances of life, especially the deeper aspects of the human soul and consciousness. It merges thought-provoking perceptions with philosophical concepts...

Seeking to create a new life for himself following the tragic events that lead to the death of his fiance and his best friend, John immigrates to South Africa and accepts a new job, but soon finds himself drawn into his employer clandestine diamond smuggling operation. From the shadows of...

Nigel Gray has breathed new life into an almost extinct literary form, the epistolatory novel. The time is 1988/1989. Adrian is trapped in Thatcher’s Britain. Harri has flown to a new life in Australia. The contrast between the old world and the new is sharply drawn. The protagonists come alive...

Karl Gut retrouve l’insaisissable Butterface à Chicago, le temps des explications est arrivé... L’ambiance devient de plus en plus chaleureuse ce qui revient à dire que la température ressentie a augmenté d’au moins trois degrés. Au bout d’un moment, on a tous chaud malgré les...

Karl Gut traque les criminels et les « poulettes »... La troublante Butterface lui joue un mauvais tour... Premier épisode de la série. Je venais de quitter Gulch City, en quatrième vitesse, la glace au cul. Le mec de la donzelle que j’avais sautée cette nuit-là est rentré du boulot...

Historiadores de la talla de José Álvarez Junco, Santos Juliá, Javier Tusell, Nigel Townson, Charles Powell, Pablo Martín Aceña, Juan Pan-Montojo y Fernando del Rey nos describen en Historia virtual de España (1807-2004) una posible Historia de España que no ocurrió, pero que podría haber...

Este libro enfoca desde una nueva perspectiva uno de los capítulos más importantes de nuestra historia y cubre un vacío fundamental en la historiografía de este periodo. Frente a la tan manida idea de las dos Españas, Nigel Townson nos ofrece un deslumbrante análisis de las causas que...

Eine Entdeckungsgeschichte des Weltalls, unterhaltsam und spannend erzählt – für Neueinsteiger und Weltraumfans Das Weltall und die Bewegungen der Himmelskörper faszinieren die Menschen seit Jahrtausenden. Erst nach und nach kommen wir den Geheimnissen des Universums auf die Spur: Was passiert...