Simon: 5480 books
Chasing Hornbills
Up to My Neck in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Chasing Hornbills charts Simon Fenton's further adventures in Senegal. Now a father, and expanding his business interests to include a taxi firm and a restaurant, he continues to face the everyday frustrations and exhilarations that made Squirting Milk at Chameleons such a compelling and entertaining...
by Simon Crompton
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Why some men cannot love, why we still love them, and what we can do about it. What do you do if you are in love with an emotional vampire? Can he actually control his behaviour? Why does he behave the way he does? Since the ancient Greeks told the story of Narcissus, we have recognised that some...
Cruelty and Laughter
Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental—the creation of an emerging middle class. Simon Dickie disputes these assumptions in Cruelty and Laughter, a wildly enjoyable but shocking plunge into the forgotten comic literature of the age. Beneath the surface of Enlightenment...
Ring of Fire
Liverpool into the 21st century: The Players' Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Following the success of Simon Hughes’ Red Machine and Men in White Suits, books which depicted Liverpool FC’s domination during the 1980s and its subsequent fall in the 1990s, Ring of Fire focuses on the 2000s and the primary characters who propelled Liverpool to the forefront of European football...
Cycling Climbs of Wales
A Road Cyclists's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
This time tackling the green hills of Wales, Simon Warren picks out 75 more challenges in the third book of his UK regional cycling climbs series. Expanding on previously documented routes as seen in bestselling 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs as well as over 50% new material, it's clear the UK still...
Practical Tortoise Raising
and other philosophical essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010. He offers engaging and illuminating discussions of various problems which arise when such familiar notions as representation, truth, reason, and assertion are applied in the sphere of practical thought. It is puzzling...
Mirror, Mirror
The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
Everyone deplores narcissism, especially in others. The vain are by turns annoying or absurd, offending us whether they are blissfully oblivious or proudly aware of their behavior. But are narcissism and vanity really as bad as they seem? Can we avoid them even if we try? In Mirror, Mirror, Simon...
To the Letter
A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
The New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map offers an ode to letter writing and its possible salvation in the digital age.
Few things are as exciting—and potentially life-changing—as discovering an old letter. And while etiquette books still extol the practice,...
Moral Desperado
A Life of Thomas Carlyle
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
'A brilliant and scholarly biography of an extraordinary figure.' Lord Blake, Country Life'A fresh, engaging, conscientious account of one of the great Victorians.' Michael Foot, London Review of Books'A thorough and convincing account of 'the sage''. Peter Ackroyd, Times Thomas Carlyle was...
by Simon Raven
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Simon Raven’s wonderfully funny cricketing memoir covers a golden age from the early 1930s to the 1950s. With his unerring eye for observation, Raven hilariously recounts matches played at Charterhouse, Cambridge and cricket grounds as far afield as Bangalore, Kenya and Corfu. The autobiography...
De nos jours les routes ne sont pas sûres...
Une enquête de Sylvie Choupin
Language: French
Release Date: February 8, 2014
Un matin du printemps 1981, un vieil homme qui promène son chien, découvre dans un fossé le cadavre d'un homme, nu et mutilé.
Une inspectrice-stagiaire et un vieux flic au bout du rouleau sont chargés de l'enquête. Ils découvrent rapidement que ce meurtre fait partie d'une longue série...
by Simon Callow
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
A short biography of Charles Dickens by acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow that offers a fresh perspective on one of the greatest novelists in the English language in a lively, highly readable account. "It has all the gusto that a popular biography of Dickens—a man who “could do nothing...
Plato's Republic
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who ever lived and The Republic, composed in Athens in about 375 BC, is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect city--and the perfect mind--laid the foundations for Western culture and has been the cornerstone of Western...
Love
A History
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
“What is love? May plunders Western poetry, philosophy and psychology to find answers . . . Thought-provoking stuff” (The Sunday Telegraph).
Love—unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting—is worshipped today as the West’s only universal religion. To challenge...