Angus: 416 books

I loved her from the moment I saw her, and that love has never wavered. It has encased every choice I have ever made, and I have never done anything in my life which didn't involve her image somewhere... I'm so sorry for it all This is the latest English-language novel from award-winning Gaelic poet,...

Sophie Larkin, an elderly woman living alone, receives a computer as a gift from her youngest son and internet service from the rest of the family. In time she goes from fearing the system to mastering it. And finally she becomes so dependent on it that it consumes her life.

Josh, longing for the freedom of his rowdy hotrodding days, takes the ultimate muscle car for a joy ride. He drives it off a cliff but miraculously survives, rescued by Debra, a girl too young to drive but not too young to appreciate a cool guy like Josh. While he frets about what the police, the...

Dementia or a severe case of loneliness? A single, middle-aged woman with a vivid imagination discovers her electric heater talks to her. Does she succumb to madness?

Are we having fun yet? Is this what you wanted to be when you grew up? This book might help. Enough Already can help you build the foundation for creating change in your life. Whether you hate you body, your partner, your job or life in general this book will help you find freedom, power and choice. You’ve never read anything like it before.

In August 1942, the British launched Operation Pedestal in an attempt to deliver supplies to the stricken island of Malta, an Allied base which had been under Axis blockade for months. From August 9 to August 15, a convoy of some 50 ships ran the gauntlet of Axis bombers, submarines, E-boats, and...

The acoustics of a space can have a real impact on the sounds you create and capture. Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, Fifth Edition provides supportive tools and exercises to help you understand how music sounds and behaves in different spaces, whether during a performance or a recording, when planning...

Modernity in interwar Europe frequently took the form of a preoccupation with mechanizing the natural; fears and fantasies revolved around the notion that the boundaries between people and machines were collapsing. Reproduction in particular became a battleground for those debating the merits of the...

Is it possible that Scotland’s Bard, Robert Burns, could have been transported to Australia as a political prisoner along with other Scottish Martyrs for Liberty, like Thomas Muir? And then escaped on the same Boston trading ship as Muir to ultimately find peace, happiness and a purpose to his life...

Highly illustrated with colour images and specially commissioned maps throughout, this is a unique exploration of the pirate world. Often romanticised in print and on the silver screen, real-life pirates were a brutal menace that plagued the high seas. In this book, Angus Konstam separates...

A strategically important natural harbor in the Orkney Islands, Scapa Flow served as Britain's main fleet anchorage during World Wars I and II. In 1914 and again in 1939, the British began building a comprehensive defensive network by fortifying the entrances to Scapa Flow, and then extended these...

With Hitler's army rampaging across Europe, Winston Churchill ordered the creation of a special fighting force – the Commandos. These valiant men were volunteers drawn from the ranks of the British Army, formed into a Special Service Brigade and put through a rigorous but highly effective training...

By combining stunning cartography with engaging and authoritative text, The World Atlas of Pirates presents the story of piracy in a completely new way. Eighty maps plot the routes that pirates followed—whether crossing the world's great oceans or pursuing their prey through creeks and bays. Colorful...

In September 1943, in the first weeks of the Allied campaign to liberate Italy, an Anglo-American invasion force of over 80,000 men was nearly beaten back into the sea by the German defenders in a ferocious ten-day battle at Salerno, south of Naples. This is the story of the tense, bitter struggle...