Bloomsbury Paperbacks imprint: 99 books
Short Sentence
10 stories of dastardly deeds
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
From Obsession and Payback to Secrets and Lies, Deception and Bad Judgement, these thrilling tales will shock and surprise you with their cunning. Short Sentence was launched in 2012 by Bloomsbury Publishing, in association with the Writers' and Artists' Yearbook. Following a short story written by one...
Countess Dracula
The Life and Times of Elisabeth Bathory, the Blood Countess
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This is the story of Elisabeth Bathory, a 17th-century Transylvanian countess. She was tried as a vampire and became an inspiration for depraved murderers up to the present day.;Based on research conducted at archives in Eastern Europe, this account includes both the recorded truth and the legend...
... And the Policeman Smiled
10,000 Children Escape from Nazi Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
For ten months before the Second World War, there was an organised movement of mainly Jewish children out of Nazi Europe. The children were bundled onto trains, waved goodbye to their parents and set off across Germany and Holland to the ferries which took them to England. Only a few spoke English,...
Renegade
The Life and Times of Darcus Howe
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Born in Trinidad during the dying days of British colonialism, Darcus Howe has become an uncompromising champion of racial justice. The book examines how Howe's unique political outlook was inspired by the example of his friend and mentor C.L.R. James, and forged in the heat of the American civil...
Nick Drake
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Nick Drake was barely 26 years old when he died in 1974. The British singer-songwriter made only three albums during his short life time: "Five Leaves Left", "Bryter Layer" and "Pink Moon". All are now recognized as classics.;Since his death, Nick has been cited as a...
Maradona
The Hand of God
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Diego Maradona, is arguably the greatest and certainly the most widely-known footballer of the modern age. During his tempestuous career he played for top clubs in South America and Europe, and was a central figure in four World Cups. With the fortunes he has earned from sponsorship and transfer deals,...
Off The Rails
10,000 km by Bicycle across Russia, Siberia and Mongolia to China
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This is the true story of two twenty-year old Australians who travelled for fourteen months on recumbent bicycles from Russia, across Siberia and Mongolia, to Beijing. It is as much a story of perseverance, passion, and belief as it is about the people and remarkable landscapes of Siberia and Mongolia....
by Tomás Eloy Martínez
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Bruno Cadogan has flown from New York to Buenos Aires in search of the elusive and legendary Julio Martel, a tango singer whose voice has never been recorded yet is said to be so beautiful it is almost supernatural. Bruno is increasingly drawn to the mystery of Martel and his strange and evocative...
Looking for the Big B
Bollywood, Bachchan and Me
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
'Jessica,' he pronounced, 'you have known me for seven years. My life has changed seven times. You will never finish this book.'
There is no reason why Amitabh Bachchan and I should appear in the same sentence. He is India's most legendary film star - a mixture of Clint Eastwood, Al Pacino...
Manuscripts Don't Burn
Mikhail Bulgakov: a Life in Letters and Diaries
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
The Russian playwright and novelist Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) is now widely acknowledged as one of the giants of twentieth-century Soviet literature, ranking with such luminaries as Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn. In his own lifetime, however, a casualty of Stalinist repression, he was scarcely published...
by Caroline Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Over four hot summers from 1975 to 1979, teenager Caroline Sullivan and her friends criss-crossed the USA in the Rollers' wake. They staked out airports and hotels, tricking airline clerks and wheedling information out of PR companies.
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah's first novel is an unwavering contemplation of East African coastal life
Poverty and depravity wreak havoc on Hassan Omar's family. Amid great hardship he decides to escape.
The arrival of Independence brings new upheavals as well as the...
Mr Mojo
A Biography of Jim Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
In Paris's Père-Lachaise cemetery, Jim Morrison's graffiti-scrawled tombstone is a place of pilgrimage for local devotees, adolescent hedonists and wayward backpackers alike. Found dead in his bathtub aged only 27 having achieved worldwide stardom as lead singer of The Doors, Morrison was quickly...
Dazzling Stranger
Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
The guitarists' guitarist and the songwriters' songwriter, the legendary Bert Jansch has influenced stars as diverse as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Paul Simon, Sandy Denny, Nick Drake, Donovan, Pete Townshend, Neil Young, Bernard Butler, Beth Orton and Laura Marling. Unassuming, enigmatic and completely...