Angus: 416 books

A panoramic novel that stretches from 1912 to 1967 No Laughing Matter is perhaps Angus Wilson's most autobiographical novel. The novel chronicles the end of the bourgeois way of life as seen through the lives of the six Matthews children and their dysfuntional middle-class family. Their parents...

In a bold and boundary defining work, Angus Fletcher clears a space for an intellectual encounter with the shape of human imagining. Joining literature and topology—a branch of mathematics—he maps the ways the imagination’s contours are formed by the spherical earth’s patterns and cycles, and shows how the world we inhabit also inhabits us.

The Dare Boys With General Greene by Stephen Angus Cox.

It's 1915 and British troops are about to sail to Gallipoli. Billy is the youngest soldier in his platoon and is teased for not being old enough to drink or shave. The truth is, at fifteen he's not old enough to be a soldier, either, and he's terrified of the war he's about to fight. Then he...

The masterful conclusion to the Exiles saga: Angus Wells is one of today's masters of epic fantasy. Now, continuing the thrilling new adventure begun in Exile's Children, he weaves his beguiling powers of magic into an unforgettable tale... Escaping a life of servitude under the evil...

Written in the 1950s, the eight stories collected here are brilliantly of their time: the decade of rubber plants, espresso bars and skiffle, of Suez, Teddy Boys and Angry Young Men.With compassion and deadly accuracy, Angus Wilson charts the scandals and secrets of the respectable middle classes...

Nicki Cooper is a fiesty 18 year old who wants nothing more than to be a private eye, but her dad refuses to let her join his detective agency. When a simple theft case comes up at the new Country Club Health Spa and Retreat, and he's out of town, Nicki seizes the opportunity. What else is a girl...

Nine remarkable men produced inventions that changed the world. The printing press, the telephone, powered flight and recording and many others have made the modern world what it is. But who were the men who had these ideas and made reality of them? As David Angus shows, they were very different quiet,...

She’s Got Her Own is about self-discovery, about Lizzie Mae Brown, a woman obsessed with finding the True Mother and True Father of her dreams. In her search she encounters lawyers and bikers, avarice and selflessness, and links that click into place after years of incubating. There’s crime, low...

Perfection of the life, perfection of the work: is it an either/or choice? Must a person forswear one to attain the other? Byeford Pritchett wants both. He wants to live a life free of the creator’s angst while turning out a work of art worthy of the name.For more years than he cares to admit, Bye...

Jacob Gleason, restless youth seeking his destiny, is a moral blank slate when he stumbles upon Abrupt Edge, a Nevada wilderness Shangri La. It’s centerpiece is Carne Viva, a brothel for billionaires seeking sexual enlightenment. Edge Enterprise’s CEO, Isaac Wayman, offers him a job chronicling...

One day master mechanic Rigoberto Calderón incurs the wrath of God. He has long had two wives, one openly, one covertly. God and the good folk of San Martín look the other way. That fateful day he boasts to a gringo motorist whose truck he’s mending that two mates concurrently is superior to the...

Beseeched by a pair of Mexican boys on the Day of the Dead to assist their kin with a broken-down pickup, Californians newly crossed into Mexico are puzzled by the encounter until they learn the true nature of their visitors.

Angus McIntyre makes his debut with The Warrior Within, a mind-bending science fiction adventure about a man with many people living in his head Karsman has a dozen different people living in his head, each the master of a different set of skills and hoping to gain mastery of Karsman’s body....