Patrick: 6740 books

'A storyteller who knows the humour, the fear and the frenzy of men in battle.' - Bernard Cornwall As their ship docked in Bombay, the shocking news of the rising by the Indian mutineers and their massacre of women, children and civilians reached Anthony Morgan and his company.  Even...

La novela original en la que se basa la película, inspirada en una idea de Siobhan Dowd e ilustrada por Jim Kay. Esta edición especial de Un monstruo viene a verme contiene material adicional exclusivo, por Patrick Ness, Jim Kay y el director J.A. Bayona, así como entrevistas con Liam Neeson,...

The Mani, at the tip of Greece’s—and Europe’s—southernmost promontory, is one of the most isolated regions of the world. Cut off from the rest of the country by the towering range of the Taygetus and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, it is a land where the past is still very much a...

An entertaining and unfiltered look at professional tennis as only Patrick McEnroe can offer. Patrick McEnroe has been in the world of professional tennis in one way or another for most of his life. As a player, coach, and ESPN commentator, he's seen it all. The significant tennis books of...

« Moi, Président, je demanderai à Patrick Rambaud de ne pas m’écrire de chronique du règne de François Ier… » C’était impossible en effet : François Ier était pris, tout comme le méconnu François II, l’impossible François III. Et François IV fut roi de Modène. Patrick Rambaud...

The Mobile Innovation guru Patrick Meyer  shares rarely detailed "future focused insights" from Steve Jobs and the world of mobile/social. Patrick Meyer is  "The CEO Futurist" and disciple of The Apple CEO, and Business 3.0 advisor to Fortune 500 and emerging tech venture...

In December of 2006, Patrick Doyle arrived in Haiti to take up duties as a Close Protection Operative for a company based in the capital city, Port au Prince. At the time, Haiti had become known as the kidnap capital of the world, with over 8,000 United Nations peacekeeping troops deployed across...

‘A wonderful book – I was helplessly absorbed’ – Bill Bryson   In his memoir The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Gunner, former football journalist Patrick Mangan relives the agony and the ecstasy of growing up in rural Australia in the 1970s as an Arsenal-FC-supporting English...

"Wine," Benjamin Franklin wrote, "is proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy." The late Patrick Baude added that wine writing is not really "about wine as such" but rather "the good life to which wine might be a tool." In this wide-ranging collection, the much-loved professor at the Indiana...

First published as a collection of blogs raising concerns about police reforms, The Rest Is Silence led to J.J. Patrick's two year fight against the Metropolitan Police Service and one of the most extraordinary examples of whistleblowing in the history of policing. With Patrick prevented from...

Patrick Bisher’s career as a Navy SEAL should have ended after a parachuting accident nearly crippled him. But overcoming adversity, even an injury as serious as a broken hip, was nothing new for him. He’d spent a portion of his childhood in leg braces. Doctors told him he’d never walk again...

Now in paperback, Patrick Leigh Fermor and Deborah Devonshire's witty, informative, and altogether delightful correspondence. In the spring of 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters, invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore...

An immediate precursor to Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series, displaying all the splendid prose and attention to detail that O'Brian's readers expect. Patrick O'Brian's first novel about the sea, The Golden Ocean, took inspiration from Commodore George Anson's fateful circumnavigation...

Patrick Branwell Brontë was born on June 26th. 1817. He was part of Englands greatest literary family together with his sisters Anne, Charlotte and Emily Jane. However that perhaps was to prove also his greatest misfortune. Although he was the first to be published as a poet in the 1840s he could make...