English Journey
7 best books like English Journey (J.B. Priestley): The Shape of Water, Agent Running in the Field, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis, Blast #1, The Secret Commonwealth, Giudici, Internal Medicine: A Doctor's Stories
Author | Andrea Camilleri |
ISBN | 0142004715 |
The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano.The goats of Vigàta once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes...
Agent Running in the Field
Author | John le Carré |
ISBN | 1984878875 |
A new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author John le Carré
Set in London in 2018, Agent Running in the Field follows a twenty-six year old solitary figure who, in a desperate attempt to resist the political turbulence swirling around him, makes connections that will take him down...
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
Author | Jared Diamond |
ISBN | 0316409138 |
A Bill Gates Summer Reading Pick
A "riveting and illuminating" (Yuval Noah Harari) new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse.
In his international...
Author | Wyndham Lewis |
ISBN | 0876855214 |
An incredible piece of hybrid art and literature. Way ahead of its time, but equally, capturing a paradoxically overlooked zeitgeist. Lewis (and others) ride the crest of early 20th-century revolution, in the ways that words can become art. Some of it is painfully boring. Some makes no sense. Some...
Author | Philip Pullman |
ISBN | 1448194512 |
It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey.
It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end...
Author | Andrea Camilleri |
ISBN | 8806205978 |
Il giudice Efisio Surra è catapultato da Torino a Montelusa, e con il suo candore e la sua tenacia vince la prima battaglia dell'Italia unita contro la Fratellanza, non ancora «Maffia».
Un giudice ragazzina si trova di colpo ridotta in clandestinità, nel bel mezzo di una guerra senza esclusione...
Internal Medicine: A Doctor's Stories
Author | Terrence Holt |
ISBN | 1863956905 |
A collection of essays about life as a surgical intern.
Terrence Holt, whose In the Valley of the Kings was hailed as a “work of genius” (New York Times) and made Amazon’s Top Ten Short Story Collections of the year, brings a writer’s eye and a doctor’s touch to this powerful account...