Not the End of the World
10 best books like Not the End of the World (Christopher Brookmyre): Complicity, Half of the Human Race, Cider With Roadies, Aberystwyth Mon Amour, The Woman Reader, Bucket of Face, Black Butterfly, London Lies Beneath, Medea, The Red and the Green
| Author | Iain Banks |
| ISBN | 0349105715 |
COMPLICITY n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act.
Local journalist Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have the same MO - he commits brutal murders on behalf of the underdog. As the two...
| Author | Anthony Quinn |
| ISBN | 0224087290 |
This is an intelligent and assured novel which eschews the melodrama that tends to accrue around subjects like the suffragettes and the first world war. Instead this feels subtle and deeply-felt with a kind of emotional and historical integrity to it.
Spanning a nine year period, this opens...
| Author | Stuart Maconie |
| ISBN | 0091897459 |
Cider with Roadies is the story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop. A life lived through music from Stuart's audience with the Beatles (aged 3); his confessions as a pubescent prog rocker; a youthful gymnastic dalliance with northern soul; the radical effects of punk on his politics, homework...
| Author | Malcolm Pryce |
| ISBN | 0747557861 |
Schoolboys are disappearing all over Aberystwyth and nobody knows why. Louie Knight, the town's private investigator, soon realizes that it is going to take more than a double ripple from Sospan, the philosopher cum ice-cream seller, to help find out what is happening to these boys and whether or not...
| Author | Belinda Jack |
| ISBN | 0300120451 |
How have women read differently from men through the ages? In all manner of ways, this book asserts.
This lively story has never been told before: the complete history of women's reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the...
| Author | Eric Hendrixson |
| ISBN | 1936383314 |
Thirteen years after a police officer searching a suspected child molester's home spilled a vial of silver pollen, America is still struggling with how to recognize its sentient fruit population. Charles is just a normal guy working at a doughnut shop until an apple and a banana shoot each other in a...
| Author | Mark Gatiss |
| ISBN | 0743257111 |
DNF three chapters in. I remember enjoying the first in this series though I now can't imagine why. Lots of 'is it really misogynist if I do it with lots of irony'. (Yes. Yes, it is.) Also there's a fine line between parodying racist colonialist sexist pulp and seeming like you just really want to write it....
| Author | Stella Duffy |
| ISBN | 0349007845 |
In August 1912, three friends set out on an adventure. Two of them come home.
Tom, Jimmy and Itzhak have grown up together in the crowded slums of Walworth. They are used to narrow streets, the bustle of East Lane market, extended families weaving in and out of each other's lives. All three boys...
| Author | Liz Lochhead |
| ISBN | 1854596020 |
I liked this adaptation of Medea (which is not one of my favorite Greek plays), but I really only have two things to say about it. 1) Lochhead's adaptation seems to move quicker than Euripides' play and many of the other adaptations I've read, which I really like. Plays that drag are challenging, and I feel...
| Author | Iris Murdoch |
| ISBN | 0099429136 |
As the Easter Rebellion looms, tension mounts in the rain-soaked streets of Dublin. Tension is also ratcheting up at home. Pat Dumay is a Catholic and an Irish patriot. His relentlessly pious mother pursues her own private war with his stepfather, a man sunk in religious speculation and drink. Meanwhile...
| Author | Kathleen Jowitt |
| ISBN | 0993533906 |
A new year at the University of Stancester, and Lydia Hawkins is trying to balance the demands of her studies with her responsibilities as an officer for the Christian Fellowship. Her mission: to make sure all the Christians in her hall stay on the straight and narrow, and to convert the remaining residents...
| Author | Stuart Evers |
| ISBN | 0330525158 |
couldn't resist this - it is packaged like a packet of fags (cigarettes, US people) and when you take the book out it has filter tips etc. Take that, Kindle!
..Ok, a bit of a gimmick, but this bloke can write. All the stories feature smoking - the last one is about Raymond Carver's...
| Author | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| ISBN | 0198319673 |
Great! Thoroughly entertaining... My goodness these medieval folks fooled around a lot -- or at least enjoyed stories of those who did :) I'm curious about Chaucer's repeatedly using the word ape ; Harvard University's Interlinear Translation page interprets ape in two ways : "ape" and "fool". How...
| Author | Colin Bateman |
| ISBN | 0755346777 |
Black Books meets Lead Balloon meets Gavin and Stacey.
The Small Shop Keeper With No Name is back. Hired to find the vandals responsible for spraying graffiti on an aspiring insurance magnate's advertising hoarding, he soon finds himself up to his ears in intrigue and battling to solve murders...
| Author | Giovanni Boccaccio |
| ISBN | 0141397829 |
Four hilarious and provocative stories from Boccaccio's Decameron, featuring cuckolded husbands, cross-dressing wives and very bad priests.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin...
