Bloomsbury Usa imprint: 1683 books
by Susanna Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2008
"Vivid and amusing...Magically funny."-Ursula K. LeGuin, Los Angeles Times
An enchanting collection of stories, set in the same world, from the author of the award-winning, internationally bestselling Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.
Following the international bestseller Jonathan Strange...
That Deadman Dance
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Set in Western Australia in the first decades of the nineteenth century, That Deadman Dance is a vast, gorgeous novel about the first contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the new European settlers.
Bobby Wabalanginy is a young Noongar man, smart, resourceful, and eager to please....
by Mireille Juchau
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
It has been six months since Tess Müller stopped speaking. Her silence is baffling to her parents, her teachers, and her younger sister Meg, but the more urgent mystery for both girls is where their mother Evangeline goes each day, pushing an empty pram and returning home wet, muddy and dishevelled.
Their...
The Sugar Barons
Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent and shocking history. For some 200 years after 1650, the West Indies were the strategic center of the western world, witnessing one of the greatest power struggles of the age as Europeans...
London's Triumph
Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
The dramatic story of the dazzling growth of London in the sixteenth century.
For most, England in the sixteenth century was the era of the Tudors, from Henry VII and VIII to Elizabeth I. But as their dramas played out at court, England was being transformed economically by the astonishing...
U-Turn
What If You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life?
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
In this impressively researched and incisive book, Bruce Grierson draws on over three hundred stories of so-called "U-turners," who have risked their livelihoods to answer a sudden wake-up call. We meet people who change political parties and careers, doctors who quit to become poets, men...
Guernica
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
In 1935, Miguel Navarro finds himself on the wrong side of the Spanish Nationalists, so he flees to Guernica, the most ancient town of the Basque region. In the midst of this idyllic, isolated bastion of democratic values, Miguel finds more than a new life-he finds a love that not even war, tragedy...
Purgatory
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Purgatorio is Martínez's most moving, most autobiographical novel and yet it is also a ghost story, the ghost story which has been Argentina's history since 1973. It begins, 'Simón Cardoso had been dead for thirty years when Emilia Dupuy, his wife, found him at lunchtime in the dining room of Trudy...
Methland
The Death and Life of an American Small Town
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
A New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
Winner of the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
Named a best book of the year by:
the Los Angeles Times
the San Francisco Chronicle
the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch
the Chicago Tribune
the Seattle Times
"A stunning...
The Wild Duck Chase
Inside the Strange and Wonderful World of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
THE WILD DUCK CHASE is the basis for “The Million Dollar Duck,” a documentary feature film, directed by Brian Golden Davis and written by Martin J. Smith, premiering at The Slamdance Film Festival in January 2016. The book takes readers into the peculiar world of competitive duck painting as it...
The Man with the Golden Typewriter
Ian Fleming's James Bond Letters
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
On August 16, 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, "My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold." He had bought the golden typewriter as a present to himself for finishing his first novel, Casino...
The Prince's Boy
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
In May 1927, nineteen-year-old Dinu Grigorescu, a skinny boy with literary ambitions, is newly arrived in Paris. He has been sent from Bucharest, the city of his childhood, by his wealthy father to embark upon a bohemian adventure and relish the unique pleasures of Parisian life.
An innocent...
The Death of Sigmund Freud
The Legacy of His Last Days
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
When Hitler invaded Austria in March of 1938, Sigmund Freud was among the 175,000 Viennese Jews dreading Nazi occupation. Though Freud was near the end of his life-eighty-one years old, battling cancer of the jaw-and Hitler's rise on the world stage was just beginning, the fates of these two historical...
The Trouble with Tom
The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2010
A Book Sense Fall 2005 History Channel Top Ten Pick
Paul Collins combines present-day travelogue with an odyssey down the forgotten paths of history as he searches for the physical remains of founding father Thomas Paine. Paine's missing body, like a saint's relics, has been scattered in pieces around...