Angus: 416 books

'Angus Wilson is one of the most enjoyable novelists of the 20th century... Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956) analyses a wide range of British society in a complicated plot that offers all the pleasures of detective fiction combined with a steady and humane insight.' Margaret DrabbleFirst published...

Timing. Bad timing. Married too young, married before all the possibilities can be explored, Jack and Carol Bishop part ways but after the raw wounds heal become friends. Meanwhile, Jack maintains a perpetual letch for Lorna, Carol’s bridesmaid. Years later he discovers she always felt the same...

How do you behave in a poker game with a genocidal murderer? General Mohammed Siad Barre of Somalia had a revolver lying beside his overflowing ashtray on the baize card table. Dictators bully and cheat, not only at cards. Field Marshal General Idi Amin Dada of Uganda, fleeing his overthrow, abandoned...

A tour group of US housewives is stranded in Mexico City by a revolution erupting north of the border. Rather than be confined to a refugee camp, they accept an offer from the mysterious Big Julie to set them up in a bordello. Big Julie will be their Madam; their customers will be expatriates from...

Mustapha is young and unmarried. He works diligently, preparing and selling hummus from a stall in the medina. One day Annisa, a newcomer to Meknes, offers him a proposition: marry her and she will share with him her secret recipe for outstanding hummus. She is nearly old enough to be his mother and...

Teaching English to non-native-speaker adults tends to focus on standard topics like business, shopping and travel. Brenda’s Owl rings the changes with 24 short, whimsical stories about the oddball side of life in an ordinary English garden. With patterns, phrases and idioms that are current and...

The Dare Boys in Virginia written by Stephen Angus Cox. The author of the Dare Boys is specially equipped through long study and research to write upon the life and adventures of the revolutionary period. Every item of historical reference is absolutely correct. The trials and inherent bravery of...

If you had the option to come back after death, what would you want to be? Still want to be human or would you like to try something different? How much is it worth to you? Live in the extra-solar human civilization and experience your next incarnation in Next You Interstellar, LLC.

The pairing of two novels in the Next You franchise, Having Nice Things and Utopian Estates, into one Volume. Having Nice Things The Earth is hurting from radioactive wastelands, over crowding and a xenophobic fear of the intersystem alliance. While adapting Next You Interstellar LLC donated...

The Earth is hurting from radioactive wastelands, over crowding and a xenophobic fear of the inter-system alliance. While adapting Next You Interstellar LLC donated technological innovation to reclaim areas of Earth made uninhabitable by wars of the past, religious and ethical movements threaten to...

Quentin Davies, a boyish lawyer, is considered by some of his fellow citizens in Tombstone to be a lovable pain in the neck. Others find him simply a pain in the neck. He defends Mexicans and Indians, and his detractors fear he will put foolish ideas about rights in the heads of these nuisances. One...

A man rides more than the waves after he enrolls in a summer surfing lesson.

The Martian Dream is to have your own home, work a nice steady job and raise 1.2 well behaved offspring. Fiona and Ashley feel well on their way to accomplishing this when they make a down payment on their new home. The dream state descends from there. Just add water and alien shenanigans will commence...

"A personality per day keeps the assassins at bay." One of many quotations embossed along the walls of the secretive 'Next You' Intelligence Division Operators academy on Cassius. Every government needs operators and they promise awesome compensation. They can because they normally don't...