Withnail and I: the Original Screenplay

10 best books like Withnail and I: the Original Screenplay (Bruce Robinson): The Stepford Wives, Venus in Furs, The Little Drummer Girl, More Than Human, The Boys from Brazil, I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank the Irishman Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa, Ape and Essence, Portrait Of An Artist, As An Old Man, Little Wilson and Big God, Dark Fields of the Republic

The Stepford Wives

Author	Ira Levin
ISBN	0060080841

For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret—a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same.

At once a masterpiece of psychological...

Venus in Furs

Author	Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
ISBN	0140447814

'Venus in Furs' describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires to be enslaved to a woman. Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the merciless Wanda von Dunajew. This is a passionate and powerful portrayal of one man's struggle to enlighten and instruct...

The Little Drummer Girl

Author	John le Carré
ISBN	0671042785

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim.

In this thrilling and thought-provoking novel of Middle Eastern intrigue,...

More Than Human

Author	Theodore Sturgeon
ISBN	0375703713

There's Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people's thoughts and make a man blow his brains out just by looking at him. There's Janie, who moves things without touching them, and there are the teleporting twins, who can travel ten feet or ten miles. There's Baby, who invented an antigravity engine...

The Boys from Brazil

Author	Ira Levin
ISBN	0394402677

Alive and hiding in South America, the fiendish Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project—the creation of the Fourth Reich. Barry Kohler, a young investigative journalist, gets wind of the project and informs famed Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman, but before...

I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank the Irishman Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa

Author	Charles Brandt
ISBN	1586420895

The first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran were, "I heard you paint houses." To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that...

Ape and Essence

Author	Aldous Huxley
ISBN	0929587782

In February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. It is over a century since the world was devastated by nuclear war, but the blight of radioactivity and disease still gnaws away at the survivors. The expedition expects to find physical destruction but they are quite...

Portrait Of An Artist, As An Old Man

Author

Joseph Heller

That questionable comma aside, Heller’s last and posthumous novel is a winner—a bitterly candid portrait of an over-the-hill, clapped-out and confused senior novelist struggling to settle on one idea for his farewell feature. Heller’s Pota is a cranky soul who swoops down on various ideas,...

Little Wilson and Big God

Author	Anthony Burgess
ISBN	0802132405

The first volume of the two-volume autobiography.

In an extraordinarily candid book of confessions, Anthony Burgess tells the story of a disaffected Manchester Catholic from his birth in 1917 up to 1959 and the commencement of his career as a professional writer. He details his burgeoning...

Dark Fields of the Republic

Author	Adrienne Rich
ISBN	0393038688

A new book of poems by one of America's most distinguished poets.

"When does a life bend toward freedom? grasp its direction?" asks Adrienne Rich in Dark Fields of the Republic, her major new work. Her explorations go to the heart of democracy and love, and the historical and present endangerment...

Coal Black Mornings

Author	Brett Anderson
ISBN	1408710501

Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant from rock star success, and in Coal Black Mornings he traces the journey that took him from a childhood as 'a snotty, sniffy, slightly maudlin sort of boy raised on Salad Cream and milky tea and cheap meat' to becoming founder and lead singer of Suede.

Anderson...

The Future Chronicles: Special Edition

Author

Samuel Peralta

The Future Chronicles has grown, from a single collection of robot stories, into a series whose unique take on major science fiction and fantasy themes – A.I., aliens, time travel, dragons, telepaths, zombies, immortality, galactic battles, cyborgs, doomsday – has made it one of the most acclaimed...