A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring nov el, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World ...
Randall Munroe is. ''Nerd royalty'' Ben Goldacre ''Totally brilliant'' Tim Harford ''Laugh-out-loud funny'' Bill Gates ''Wonderful'' Neil Gaiman AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The world''s most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic ...
Book Five in the Magnificent Dune Chroniclesthe Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and ...
Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger''s New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme. With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE ...
By the author of THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET, David Mitchell''''s bestselling and Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, one of Richard & Judy''''s 100 Books of the Decade, CLOUD ATLAS has now been adapted for film. The major motion picture, directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, stars Tom Hanks, ...
Exclusive Hufflepuff House Edition of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – a highly collectable must-have for all Harry Potter fans! Let the magic of J.K. Rowling’s classic series take you back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Issued to mark the 20th anniversary of first publication ...
