Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England
9 best books like Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England (Steve Jones): The Crying of Lot 49, The Queen of the South, Consciousness Explained, Renegade, A Maigret Christmas: And Other Stories, Attrib. and other stories, Maigret Goes to School, Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology, Maigret si diverte
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd...
| Author | Arturo Pérez-Reverte |
| ISBN | 0330413147 |
Guero Davila is a pilot engaged in drug-smuggling for the local cartels. Teresa Mendoza is his girlfriend, a typical narco's morra-- quiet, doting, submissive. But then Guero's caught playing both sides, and in Sinaloa, that means death. Teresa finds herself alone, terrified, friendless and running...
| Author | Daniel C. Dennett |
| ISBN | 0316180661 |
"Brilliant...as audacious as its title....Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant." --George Johnson, New York Times Book Review
Consciousness Explained is a a full-scale exploration of human consciousness. In this landmark book, Daniel Dennett refutes the traditional,...
| Author | Mark E. Smith |
| ISBN | 0670916749 |
Reams of stuff have been written about me in the past, but never in my own words: this is the proper one’ Mark E. Smith Still going after thirty years, The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands, their music — odd, spare, cranky and circular — an acknowledged influence on The Smiths, The...
A Maigret Christmas: And Other Stories
| Author | Georges Simenon |
| ISBN | 0241282152 |
Three seasonal stories set in Paris at Christmas, from the celebrated creator of Inspector Maigret.
It is Christmas in Paris, but beneath the sparkling lights and glittering decorations lie sinister deeds and dark secrets...
This collection brings together three of Simenon's...
| Author | Eley Williams |
| ISBN | 1910312169 |
This debut collection from Eley Williams centres upon the difficulties of communication and the way in which one’s thoughts — absurd, encompassing, oblique — may never be fully communicable and yet can overwhelm.
Attrib. and other stories celebrates the tricksiness of language...
Maigret becomes entangled in the dramas of a small town on his quest to solve the murder of their former postmistress. The forty-fourth book in the new Penguin Maigret series.
Maigret is called from his usual duties in Paris to investigate a murder in a small village located close to La Rochelle....
| Author | Lisa Margonelli |
| ISBN | 0374282072 |
This book is about termites the way the Bible is about men with beards. Yes, it takes you into the mounds and inside the bugs, but also deep into the strange labs and pulsing, eclectic minds of the roboticists, geneticists, physicists, and ecologists who try to figure them out. Perhaps best of all, it takes...
| Author | Georges Simenon |
| ISBN | 8845920488 |
Sui giornali del mattino non c’era nulla. Si accontentavano di riproporre, con minori dettagli, quanto pubblicato il giorno prima sui fogli della sera.Improvvisamente si era creato un vuoto, come se il caso fosse giunto a un punto morto. Si sentiva frustrato. Il suo primo pensiero fu: «Ma che diavolo...
