Twelve Bar Blues
10 best books like Twelve Bar Blues (Patrick Neate): Cold Comfort Farm, More Tales of the City, The Double Comfort Safari Club, Alcoholics Anonymous, How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Quantity Theory of Insanity, An Almost Perfect Moment, Pimp: The Story of My Life, Mr Finchley Discovers His England, Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life
| Author | Stella Gibbons |
| ISBN | 0143039598 |
Update I've just watched the film. It's even better than the book, by a long way. It's very affectionate, and very much played for gentle laughs. The cast is fantastic, some of the best actresses around including Eileen Atkins and Joanna Ab Fab Lumley, Stephen Fry and Ian McKellan. The attention to detail...
A surreal sequel to the first volume of the series, More Tales of the City heightens the stakes of the original: mystery, romance, and drama now feature even more prominently in the intertwining storylines of the residents of 28 Barbary Lane. Maupin established his characters' personalities and their...
The Double Comfort Safari Club
| Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
| ISBN | 0375424504 |
Readers will agree that this touching and dramatic new installment in Alexander McCall Smith’s beloved and best-selling series is the finest yet. In this story, Precious Ramotswe deals with issues of mistaken identity and great fortune against the beautiful backdrop of Botswana’s remote and...
| Author | Alcoholics Anonymous |
| ISBN | 1893007170 |
It's more than a book. It's a way of life. Alcoholics Anonymous-The Big Book-has served as a lifeline to millions worldwide. First published in 1939, Alcoholics Anonymous sets forth cornerstone concepts of recovery from alcoholism and tells the stories of men and women who have overcome the disease....
How Proust Can Change Your Life
| Author | Alain de Botton |
| ISBN | 0679779159 |
Words Are Your Homeland
One of the most important deficiencies in the philosophy of science (and business, which prides itself as a practical science) is the idea of efficiency of inquiry in scientific method - how to get an answer to a question at hand with the least possible effort. Efficiency...
| Author | Will Self |
| ISBN | 0679750940 |
What if there is only a limited amount of sanity in the world and the real reason people go mad is because somebody has to? What if a mysterious tribe in the Amazon rainforest turn out to be the most boring people on the earth? What if the afterlife is nothing more than a London suburb, where the dead get new...
| Author | Binnie Kirshenbaum |
| ISBN | 0060520876 |
In Brooklyn, in the Age of Disco, Valentine Kessler -- a sweet Jewish girl who bears a remarkable resemblance to the Virgin Mary of Lourdes -- has an unerring gift for shattering the dreams and hopes of those who love her. Miriam, her long-suffering mother, betrayed and anguished by the husband she adores,...
Pimp: The Story of My Life
| Author | Iceberg Slim |
| ISBN | 0862415934 |
“A pimp is happy when his whores giggle. He knows they are still asleep...all whores have one thing in common just like the chumps humping for the white boss. It thrills ‘em when the pimp makes mistakes. They watch and wait for his downfall.
A pimp is the loneliest bastard on Earth. He’s...
Mr Finchley Discovers His England
| Author | Victor Canning |
| ISBN | 0330233963 |
3+ Stars. "What is a holiday without change and excitement?" Ask Edgar Finchley, Esquire. MR. FINCHLEY DISCOVERS HIS ENGLAND was Victor Canning's first novel and a runaway best seller in 1934; and now, his novels are being re-released. This one, first in a trilogy is old-fashioned and silly....yes,...
Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life
Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins's long-awaited tale of his wild life and times, both at home and around the globe
Tom Robbins's warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels–including Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Another Roadside Attraction, and Jitterbug...
