The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero & Myth-maker from the Crimea to Iraq
10 best books like The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero & Myth-maker from the Crimea to Iraq (Phillip Knightley): The Foundation Trilogy, Quichotte, Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories, Homage to Catalonia, The World of Yesterday, The Cossacks and Other Stories, Dual Citizens, Seven Types of Atheism, Albatross, Tell the Machine Goodnight
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0380508567 |
A THOUSAND-YEAR EPIC, A GALACTIC STRUGGLE, A MONUMENTAL WORK IN THE ANNALS OF SCIENCE FICTION
FOUNDATION begins a new chapter in the story of man's future. As the Old Empire crumbles into barbarism throughout the million worlds of the galaxy, Hari Seldon and his band of psychologists must...
In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age.
Inspired by the Cervantes...
| Author | Shirley Jackson |
| ISBN | 0553378333 |
Acclaimed in her own time for her short story “The Lottery” and her novel The Haunting of Hill House—classics ranking with the work of Edgar Allan Poe—Shirley Jackson blazed a path for contemporary writers with her explorations of evil, madness, and cruelty. Soon after her untimely death...
| Author | George Orwell |
| ISBN | 0156421178 |
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
George Orwell is one of my favourite writers. 1984 and Animal Farm were game-changers for me when I first picked them up at 12 years old, and they fostered an interest in politics...
| Author | Stefan Zweig |
| ISBN | 0803252242 |
Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars. Zweig's passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the brink of extinction....
| Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN | 0140449590 |
In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army. The four years he spent as a soldier were among the most significant in his life and inspired the tales collected here. In ?The Cossacks,? Tolstoy tells the story of Olenin, a cultured Russian whose experiences among the Cossack warriors...
Lark and Robin are half-sisters whose similarities end at being named for birds. While Lark is shy and studious, Robin is wild and artistic. Raised in Montreal by their disinterested single mother, they form a fierce team in childhood regardless of their differences. As they grow up, Lark excels at...
| Author | John N. Gray |
| ISBN | 0241199417 |
'A highly readable, fascinating book that jerks the debate on religion versus atheism right out of its crusted rut into the light of serious intellectual scrutiny' Observer
A meditation on the importance of atheism in the modern world - and its inadequacies and contradictions - by one of Britain's...
| Author | Terry Fallis |
| ISBN | 0771050968 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From two-time Leacock Medal winner Terry Fallis comes a funny and smart new novel about destiny--and what it means to forge your own path.
Adam Coryell is your average high-school student--well, except for that obsession with fountain pens--when his life changes...
Tell the Machine Goodnight
| Author | Katie Williams |
| ISBN | 0525533125 |
Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommendations for greater contentment. She's good at her job, her office manager tells her, successful. But how does one measure an emotion?
Meanwhile, there's Pearl's teenage son, Rhett. A sensitive...
