Worlds of Arthur
10 best books like Worlds of Arthur (Guy Halsall): Downbelow Station, Underland, Kill Your Friends, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, Twilight Company, The Kingdom of Little Wounds, Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100-1550, Hidden Messages in Water, Socialism: A Very Short Introduction, The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
| Author | C.J. Cherryh |
| ISBN | 0756400597 |
This book was too damn long.
If you take a glass of whiskey and take a sip and it is too strong, add some water or ice and it makes it more enjoyable. But if you were to take the glass of whiskey and mix it with a gallon of water, then you will likely not even taste the whiskey.
If an author takes...
| Author | Robert Macfarlane |
| ISBN | 0393242145 |
An exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself.
In this sequel to The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through...
It's not dog-eat-dog around here...it's dog-gang-rapes-dog-then-tortures-him-for-five-days-before-burying-him-alive-and-taking-out-every-motherfucker-the-dog-has-ever-known.
Meet Steven Stelfox.
London 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop...
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 1435510143 |
He awoke—and wanted Mars. The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Great and greater yet: the dream grew as he became fully conscious, the dream and the yearning. He could almost feel the enveloping presence of the other world, which only Government agents and high officials...
A companion novel inspired by the hotly anticipated videogame Star Wars: Battlefront, this action-packed adventure follows a squad of soldiers caught in the trenches of the ultimate galactic war between good and evil.
The bravest soldiers. The toughest warriors. The ultimate survivors.
...
The Kingdom of Little Wounds
| Author | Susann Cokal |
| ISBN | 0763666947 |
On the eve of Princess Sophia’s wedding, the Scandinavian city of Skyggehavn prepares to fete the occasion with a sumptuous display of riches. Yet beneath the veneer of celebration, a shiver of darkness creeps through the palace halls. A mysterious illness plagues the royal family, threatening...
Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100-1550
| Author | Yuval Noah Harari |
| ISBN | 1843834529 |
Alongside the familiar pitched battles, regular sieges, and large-scale manoeuvres, medieval and early modern wars also involved assassination, abduction, treason and sabotage. These undercover operations were aimed chiefly against key individuals, mostly royalty or the leaders of the opposing...
| Author | Masaru Emoto |
| ISBN | 0743289803 |
In this New York Times bestseller, internationally renowned Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto shows how the influence of our thoughts, words and feelings on molecules of water can positively impact the earth and our personal health.
This book has the potential to profoundly transform your...
| Author | Michael Newman |
| ISBN | 0192804316 |
Today, most people think of socialism as an outdated ideology. In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Newman seeks to place the idea of socialism in a modern context for today's readers. He explains socialist ideas in the framework of its historical evolution, from the French Revolution to the present...
The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
| Author | Pico Iyer |
| ISBN | 1476784728 |
A follow up to Pico Iyer’s essay “The Joy of Quiet,” The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug.
Why might a lifelong traveler like Pico Iyer, who has...
Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
| Author | Karen Swallow Prior |
| ISBN | 1400206251 |
With a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of "Bonhoeffer" and "Amazing Grace."
The enthralling biography of the woman writer who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain's upper classes, and taught a nation how to read.
The history-changing reforms of Hannah More...
Wales:An Illustrated History
| Author | Henry Weissler |
| ISBN | 0781809363 |
Thousands of Americans visit Wales each year, and countless millions of people in America and all over the world are descendants, at least in part, from the people of this small, beautiful part of the British Isles. Yet how many know the history that has made Wales and the Welsh what they are? Here is a clear,...
| Author | Mark Verheiden |
| ISBN | 1569711747 |
Wilks was a space marine with a near-fatal flaw: he had a heart. Billie was a child, the only survivor of a far-flung colony outpost. Thrown together in the last hellish night of an Alien invasion, Billie and Wilks helped each other get out alive. Thirteen years later, Wilks is in prison and Billie lives...
Way of the Wolf: Become a Master Closer with Straight Line Selling
| Author | Jordan Belfort |
| ISBN | 1501164287 |
Jordan Belfort immortalized by Leonardo DiCaprio in the hit movie The Wolf of Wall Street reveals the step-by-step sales and persuasion system proven to turn anyone into a sales-closing, money-earning rock star.
For the first time ever, Jordan Belfort opens his playbook and gives readers access...
1066 and Before All That: The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England
| Author | Ed West |
| ISBN | 1510719911 |
A riveting account of the most consequential year in English history, marked by bloody conflict with invaders on all sides.
1066 is the most famous date in history, and with good reason, since no battle in medieval history had such a devastating effect on its losers as the Battle of Hastings,...
I do not know or remember or care enough to search, when was the last time I rated Walking Dead this high, and I shouldn't. I know I shouldn't. But I REALLY liked this issue. I hate that I did because it's been so long that I'm disappointed by this series again and again issue after issue.
It was sad...
Chaos: A Very Short Introduction
| Author | Leonard A. Smith |
| ISBN | 0192853783 |
Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause and effect can be subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its behaviour, and sometimes giving rise to astonishing structures of large-scale order. Our growing understanding of Chaos Theory is having fascinating...
