Bloomsbury: 14715 books
by John Hickman
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Bloomsbury High Low books encourage and support reading practice by providing gripping, age-appropriate stories for struggling and reluctant readers, those with dyslexia, or those with English as an additional language. Printed on tinted paper and with a dyslexia friendly font and illustrations, The...
Wild Hearts
An If Only novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Enjoy Wild Hearts and the other standalone titles in Bloomsbury's contemporary If Only romance line centered around an impossible problem: you always want what you can't have!
Brie Carter's father's land development business has taken her family all over the world,
but as soon as they arrive...
by Chris Powling
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
All the kids in school have a pair of Rainbow Boots – well, all of them except Denzil! So he pretends that his are being customised and soon he's trapped in a web of lies. But are the Rainbow Boots really worth all this hassle? A hilarious school comedy from popular writer Chris Powling with illustrations...
Gotham Writers' Workshop: Writing Fiction
The Practical Guide From New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Gotham Writers' Workshop has mastered the art of teaching the craft of writing in a way that is practical, accessible, and entertaining. Now the techniques of this renowned school are available in this book.
Here you'll find: - The fundamental elements of fiction craft-character, plot, point of view,...
Prague Pictures
Portraits of a City
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
From one of the foremost chroniclers of the modern European experience, a panoramic view of a city that has seduced and bewitched visitors for centuries.
The fourth book in Bloomsbury's Writer and the City series.
Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, "devotee...
The Flaneur
A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
A flaneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles through city streets in search of adventure and fulfillment. Edmund White, who lived in Paris for sixteen years, wanders through the streets and avenues and along the quays, into parts of Paris virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many...
The Brontes Went to Woolworths
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
'How I loathe that kind of novel which is about a lot of sisters'; so proclaims Deirdre at the beginning of The Brontës Went to Woolworths, one of three sisters.
London, 1931. As growing up looms large in the lives of the Carne sisters, Deirdre, Katrine and young Sheil still share an insatiable...
The Secret Sharer
Including screenplay by Peter Fudakowski
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Atlantic. All its phases were familiar enough to me, every characteristic, all the alternatives which were likely to face me on the high seas-everything! except the novel responsibility of command. But I took heart from the reasonable thought that the ship was like other ships, the men like other...
Rio de Janeiro
A City on Fire
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2008
Ruy Castro delves into the past and present of Rio, where even in periods of comparative calm there has always been a palpable excitement in the air - the feeling of a city on fire.
In this spellbinding fifth entry in Bloomsbury's The Writer and the City series, Rio de Janeiro's vibrant history unfolds....
Ghosty Men
The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders, An Urban Historical
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
A true tale of changing New York by Franz Lidz, whose Unstrung Heroes is a classic of hoarder lore.
Homer and Langley Collyer moved into their handsome brownstone in white, upper-class Harlem in 1909. By 1947, however, when the fire department had to carry Homer's body out of the house he hadn't left...
QFINANCE
The Ultimate Resource
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
QFINANCE: The Ultimate Resource (5th edition) is the first-step reference for the finance professional or student of finance. Its coverage and author quality reflect a fine blend of practitioner and academic expertise, whilst providing the reader with a thorough education in the may facets of finance.
Understanding Music
Philosophy and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997)Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the...
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...
Rough Amusements
The True Story of A'Lelia Walker, Patroness of the Harlem Renaissance's Down-Low Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
When A'Lelia Walker died in 1931 after a midnight snack of lobster and chocolate cake washed down with champagne, it marked the end of one of the most striking social careers in New York's history. The daughter of rags-to-riches multi-millionaire Madame C.J. Walker (the washerwoman who marketed the...