343 títulos para "Thistle Publishing"

How to Remove a Brain

Haviland, David

“Hilarious, and sometimes stomach-turning, vignettes.” New Scientist "I never thought a book titled How to Remove a Brain would be so incredibly brilliant. David Haviland, I don't know you, or why you create books like this and Why Dogs Eat Poop, but you are clearly smarter tha...

Legion of the Lost

Salazar, Jaime

Revised edition, with a new foreword and afterword from the author. 'From an air-conditioned Chicago office, Mr. Salazar took the express elevator straight to hell. Legion of the Lost is his story, the improbable, very funny tale of a sensitive, bookish child of Mexican immigrants who walked away...

The Warehouse Industry

Macbeth, William

Once there was a man.  When the man was a boy he killed a duck. He called the duck Peter, but it was too late. The duck was dead.  He got a job at a pie factory. Not a great job, but they didn’t ask too many questions, which was the main thing. He didn’t last long there, and le...

Princess

Dismore, Jane

As a 13-year-old girl, Princess Elizabeth fell in love with Prince Philip of Greece, an ambitious naval cadet, and they married when she was 21. When Elizabeth suddenly became Queen at 25, their lives changed forever. With previously unpublished material and unique interviews with friends and relati...

George Fox and the Children of the Light

Fryer, Jonathan

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND WAS TORN BY POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONFLICT But against this background cacophony a firm, pure voice spoke out, denouncing the ostentations of the rich, and the stranglehold of the Church on people's lives, declaring that every person could communicate directly with God....

The Mad Bad Line

Roberts, Brian

‘You had yourself often told me,’ Oscar Wilde wrote to Lord Alfred Douglas, ‘how many of your race there had been who had stained their hands in their own blood; your uncle certainly, your grandfather possibly; many others in the mad, bad line from which you come.’ Wilde&rsqu...

Mapreaders & Multitaskers

Evans, Gavin

In Mapreaders and Multitaskers, Gavin Evans argues that male and female minds do not emerge from different planets, and that our emotional and intellectual capacities are moulded more by culture than biology.    A great many of the supposedly innate gender differences between men and wom...

Randolph

Roberts, Brian

‘Born to succeed; doomed to failure’. For all its cruel accuracy, this quip about Randolph Churchill is not quite fair.  He was certainly born to succeed. A member of a great patrician family, good-looking, intelligent, energetic, with great oratorical gifts and quickness of mind,...

The Serpent's Tail

Dillon, Martin

A gripping thriller based on a true sequence of events in which two young Belfast Catholics are recruited as informers and find themselves at the heart of a ‘sting’ involving the IRA, the SAS and MI5. The Serpent’s Tail is the first work of fiction by the man Conor Cruise O’B...

Hollywood Hang Ten

Goldberg, Eve

Los Angeles, 1963.  John F. Kennedy is President, and Jan & Dean’s “Surf City” is at the top of the charts. Ryan Zorn, a 23-year-old Venice Beach surfer working in his uncle’s detective agency, lands his first solo case when a divorced mother with plenty to hide...

Rosebery

McKinstry, Leo

With a story full of colour, contradictions and controversy, the Fifth Early of Rosebery is the ideal subject for a biography. Gifted with dazzling charisma, oratorical power, intellectual brilliance and fabulous wealth, he was the last Liberal peer to become Prime Minister, succeeding William Glads...

Dambuster

Ottaway, Susan

FEW MEN HAVE A BETTER CLAIM TO BE CALLED A LEGEND IN THEIR OWN LIFETIME THAN GUY GIBSON.Leader of the famous Dambuster Raid of May 1943, which became part of the popular folklore of the Second World War after the film in which Richard Todd took the part of the hero, Gibson himself was tragically in...