The Ascent Of Rum Doodle

5 best books like The Ascent Of Rum Doodle (W.E. Bowman): The Diary of a Bookseller, The Restraint of Beasts, The Black Sheep, Glaxo, Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

The Diary of a Bookseller

Author	Shaun Bythell
ISBN	1781258627

Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these...

The Restraint of Beasts

Author	Magnus Mills
ISBN	0684865114

Once upon a time in Scotland, there were three men who built high-tension fences, the kind that keep animals in and humans out—or maybe the other way around. Magnus Mills gives us a wiry novel of tensile strength that proves him a writer of ferocious talent. Eerie, resonant, spare yet rich in tones both...

The Black Sheep

Author	Honoré de Balzac
ISBN	0140442375

The novel begins in 1792 with a long and rather dull preamble givinge history to the Rouget family, and as it happens this is vital to understanding the last part of the tale. Agathe Rouget is the daughter of a rather nasty doctor, that seems to be putting it mildly, and Balzac laces the tale of Doctor Rouget...

Glaxo

Author	Hernán Ronsino
ISBN	9872514011

Desde la puerta de la peluquería frente a la Glaxo, Vardemann había observado durante días cómo una cuadrilla de obreros levantaba las vías del tren. Ya no más ese sonido capaz de tapar hasta el ruido de un balazo, ni aquel previo a la detención, “tan estridente, que hace doler las muelas. Sólo...

Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

Author	Rose George
ISBN	0805092633

Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilization

On ship-tracking websites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial economies, we...