Search results for “Waters, John”

Role Models is a wild and witty self-portrait of John Waters, America's 'Pope of Trash', told through intimate profiles of his favourite personalit...

Review In Waters' world, dysfunction is beautiful, degradation is powerful, and there's nothing to fear because the grotesque is proudly on displa...

The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author...

Who would believe it could be so hard to get a drink of water? And to find it at last, cool and fresh but out of reach - that was a problem indeed ...

***THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** 'Three sparkling Grisham stories for the price of one . . . Appealing entertainment' IRISH INDEPENDEN...

'I was seduced from John Grey's first scene' Ann Cleeves 1670. Eastwold, once one of the greatest ports in England, has been fighting a losing bat...

From an award-winning author, Fingersmith is an extraordinary, ingenious tale of fraud, insanity and secrets London 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at...

'There came the splash of water and the rub of heels as Mrs Barber stepped into the tub. After that there was a silence, broken only by the occasio...

For millions of years, humankind has used a brilliantly successful survival strategy. If we like something, we chase after more of it: more status,...

Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the...

California's fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinies are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over the generations, between...

The disturbing post-apocalyptic novel The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, author of The Day of the Triffids and The Kraken Wakes and dramatised on BBC ...

Discover the answers behind the mysteries of the countryside in all their fascination and beauty... Ever wondered about the masses of twigs in bar...

'Among the wealthy elders, my views gave some offence. Two or three people walked out of my lecture in Hamburg. At a dinner in Oldenburg I was seat...

A revised and updated edition of Sir John Summerson's classic book. Derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture in antiquity, the ...

Review The Sweetness of Water is a fine, lyrical novel, impressive at the level of the sentence, and in its complex interweaving of the grand and ...

An elegy to a golden age of literature, Circus of Dreams divulges how the British literary scene underwent an unrecognisable transformation in the ...

Product Description In a sparkling, fast-paced narrative, Shakespeare's Kings chronicles the turbulent events that inspired Shakespeare's history ...

Wonderfully preserved Greek vases are a unique source of information about the mythology, religion, drama and daily life of the ancient Greek world...

John Vandeleur s letters home to his parents are a lively and engaging account of active service during the Napoleonic Wars, recounting everythi...

Review John Higgs's book lets in a glittering stream of revelatory light . . . [he] has us wrestling with flow states and default mode networks, N...