Wall: 390 books

London is an exciting, vibrant and often noisy city but this busy metropolis also has a quiet side. Siobhan Wall encourages Londoners and visitors to the capital to wander away from the crowds and discover calm amid the hustle and bustle. This is a guide to over 100 quiet places to enjoy the art and...

Dos casos sin resolver, tres policías en apuros y un asesino suelto dispuesto a matar de nuevo. El comisario Martin Beck y su equipo se hallan en una encrucijada en que nada parece tener relación en sí, pese a que todo apunta a lo contrario: un banco ha sido atracado en una parte de la ciudad,...

The British anti-psychiatric group, which formed around R.D. Laing, David Cooper, and Aaron Esterson in the 1960s, burned bright, but briefly, and has left a long legacy. This book follows their practical, social, and theoretical trajectory away from the structured world of institutional psychiatry...

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An Irish Independent Book of the Year. As the great John McGahern used to say, there's verse, and there's prose, and then there's poetry; William Wall is a poet in both mediums' John Banville. 'An underrated veteran at the peak of his powers' Sunday Times. 'It's this mood of lives irreparably...

A startling and gripping novel, Suzy, Suzy follows a teenage girl trying to understand the chaos of her family life. Suzy lives in a dysfunctional household. She can't stand her mother; her father is keeping secrets; and her brother only seems to egg on their parents' erratic and unpredictable behaviour....

To a penniless twenty-year-old like Jamie Long, surrogate motherhood seemed both an act of altruism and a financial opportunity. But once pregnant and under contract to Amanda Hartmann, the head of a famous evangelical family, Jamie realizes that she's getting more than she bargained for. Whisked...

"From Healing to Hell" tells the tragic story of the fall of a good an decent man, and goes further to reveal the shocking details of how he was done a cruel injustice at the hands of a covert CIA government experiment with the drug LSD. The book tells the story of illegal activity by officials in power who operated under the guise of protecting the country.

You don’t forget your first time. Remember yours? Of course you do. Featherstone certainly does. It happens in the 1960’s, when most girls keep their knees pressed firmly together during passionate embraces. They try to hold out until they marry. That ‘other kind of girl’ is incredibly...

Visible Cities captures moments of joy and sadness that occur each day on city streets, exploring the humble triumphs and mundane tragedies of urban life. Photographs taken in locales from Regina to Venice, from Ottawa to Paris, inspire poems that reveal the unexpected beauty of the everyday experiences...

The Swinging Sixties: Not all it’s cracked up to be? Or the greatest time ever to be young? Featherstone thinks it is. He’s an art student, past his First Time barrier, and thinks he knows it all. The Sixties are in full swing: Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll. Featherstone does his bit...

Who could ever tire of endless sex and more money than it’s possible to imagine? Featherstone does. He leaves Swinging Sixties England, allowing Fate to dictate his destiny. She leads him to Amsterdam, sin capital of the world. Seduced, robbed, rescued, nurtured. Featherstone marvels...

Featherstone is lead singer with a fabulous 60’s rock band. This all-round lovable rogue with no ear for music but balls that make up for it, sets out to take his friends into the big time, and it is up to him to get them there with no map. Finding sexual encounters is no longer a problem,...

Nachdem Andrea aus Deutschland eingetroffen ist, um endgültig bei Kerstin in Südafrika zu bleiben, scheint das Glück perfekt. Andrea beginnt bei einer Entwicklungshilfeorganisation zu arbeiten, und das erste gemeinsame Weihnachtsfest bei 40 Grad im Schatten rückt immer näher. Dann jedoch überschlagen...