Bloomsbury Publishing imprint: 244 books
Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar
Based on the Hilarious BBC Radio 4 Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Alexei Sayle reveals his true vocation: proprietor of an imaginary sandwich shop. Blending politics, comedy, philosophy and memoir, this is the Godfather of Alternative Comedy at his most anarchic and irresistibly entertaining
Alexei Sayle has been telling people he runs a sandwich bar on Gray's...
How to Resist
Turn Protest to Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
'This extraordinary book is the roadmap for a new kind of effective activism' - Brian Eno
'This book is for people who are angry with the ways things are and want to do something about it; for people who are frustrated with the system, or worried about the direction the country is going. Maybe...
Modernity Britain
Book Two: A Shake of the Dice, 1959-62
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
David Kynaston's history of post-war Britain has so far taken us from the radically reforming Labour governments of the late 1940s in Austerity Britain, through the growing prosperity of Family Britain's more placid 1950s, to the very cusp of the 1960s and the coming of a new Zeitgeist in Modernity...
Till Time's Last Sand
A History of the Bank of England 1694-2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The authorised history of the Bank of England by the bestselling David Kynaston, 'the most entertaining historian alive' (Spectator).
'Not an ordinary bank, but a great engine of state,' Adam Smith declared of the Bank of England as long ago as 1776. The Bank is now over 320 years old, and...
by Sheila Hancock
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
'Well now, prove it, Sheila. As John would say, "Put your money where your mouth is." Be a depressed widow boring the arse off everyone, or get on with life. Your choice.'
In The Two of Us Sheila Hancock relived her life with John Thaw - years packed with love and family, work and...
Zimbabwe
Years of Hope and Despair
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Zimbabwe is a country both blessed and cursed. British diplomat Philip
Barclay witnessed the downfall of what used to be Africa's finest
country, culminating in the tumultuous events of 2008 when Zimbabwe's
people voted against Robert Mugabe. But their desire for change was
denied as vicious squads...
The Two of Us
My Life with John Thaw
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
When John Thaw, star of The Sweeney and Inspector Morse, died from cancer in 2002, a nation lost one of its finest actors and Sheila Hancock lost a beloved husband. In this unique double biography she chronicles their lives - personal and professional, together and apart.
John Thaw was born...
As Green as Grass
Growing Up Before, During & After the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Uprooted from her beloved Great Western Beach, Emma Smith moves with her family from Newquay to the Devonshire village of Crapstone. But the dust has hardly settled when tragedy strikes, and Emma's father, a DSO-decorated hero of the Great War, is so frustrated by the hardship of life as a lowly bank...
Landskipping
Painters, Ploughmen and Places
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Landskipping is a ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise. In spirit as Romantic as rational, Anna Pavord explores the different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the land. In the eighteenth century, artists first...
by Mirabel Osler
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
A host of vividly caught characters are here: Mirabel's extrovert, free-spirited mother Phyllis; Aylmer Vallance, who with extraordinary love letters would rescue her mother from a twilight life; Stella Bowen, Phyllis's lifelong friend and fellow student under Ezra Pound, their introduction to the...
A Very English Hero
The Making of Frank Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Modest, handsome and a fine poet, eccentric Englishman Frank Thompson made an unlikely soldier. Brother of E. P. Thompson and lover of Iris Murdoch, Frank was an intellectual idealist, a rare combination of brilliant mind and enormous heart. Of his wartime experiences, Frank wrote prodigiously. His...
by Michael Peppiatt
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
It is a story I have been wanting to write for a long time, telling it as it really was before that whole world that I shared with Francis vanishes...
Michael Peppiatt met Francis Bacon in June 1963 in Soho's French House to request an interview for a student magazine he was editing. Bacon...
The Existential Englishman
Paris Among the Artists
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
A love letter to Paris and a memoir of a life spent at its bohemian heart, rich with adventures, misadventures and the beauty of one of the most enduringly romantic cities in the world
The Existential Englishman is both a memoir and an intimate portrait of Paris – a city that can enchant,...
Cobra in the Bath
Adventures in Less Travelled Lands
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Miles Morland is an adventurer. He was born in India to a naval father and a dangerously glamorous mother. When his parents divorced, Miles followed his mother to Tehran, which they had to leave in a hurry, and on to Baghdad, which they also had to leave in a hurry after the 1958 revolution. His early...