Gibson Square: 57 books
American Vertigo
Traveling to the Great & the Gross
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
This acclaimed, brilliant US travelogue vividly describes the extremes of American society. Filled with a dazzling and entertaining array of different characters - from film celebrities Woody Allen and Sharon Stone, to presidential hopefuls, prostitutes and psychotic convicts - Bernard-Henri Levy...
A Lion Was Learning to Ski
And Other Lines for a Laugh
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
A Lion Was Learning to Ski. Humour, Limericks, Whimsical.
Outside in My Dressing Gown
Poems for Garden Lovers
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
What is more enjoyable first thing in the morning than slipping out to the garden in your dressing gown? Liz Cowley shares this and many other delightful moments as she takes us on a humorous journey through the gardener's year. Laugh through the seasons with Liz's poems, filled with acute observations...
My Innocent Absence
Exile on Three Continents
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
The routine for Miriam Frank as a child was to flee without family or home, except her mother. She was born in Barcelona, in the year the Spanish Civil War broke out. Her mother was German and her father American, both were of Jewish descent. But when Franco won she and her mother had to flee to France,...
#WeToo in the White House
Donald Trump to George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2018
'A racy new history.' Tony Rennell, Daily Mail. How do the USA's 44 Presidents score in the light of #WeToo? This riveting topical history reveals the sexual scandals & secrets (some funny, some sad and some just bizarre) that White House incumbents fought hard to keep away from the public eye, from Donald Trump to George Washington.
Climbing Everest
The Complete Writings of George Leigh Mallory
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
'Compelling pieces.' Stephen Venables, Mail on Sunday 'Invaluable... [a] surprise it has taken so long to see the light of day.' National Geographic 'Expressive and emotionally literate.' Scottish Mountaineer In Climbing Everest, George Mallory (18 June 1886 - 8/9 June 1924), possibly the first man...
The News Machine
Hacking, The Untold Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
There is one mystery figure at the heart of 'Hackergate' -Glenn Mulcaire, the News of the World's top private investigator. The former AFC Wimbledon footballer has never spoken publicly or in court about his work investigating and backing up front-page news stories (such as the News of the World's...
A Home for the Heart
11 Ideas to Balance Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2012
'What home can offer us.' BBC Women's Hour 'Making [home] a source of comfort and connection.' Observer 'How to achieve this...' Times. We all need a safe place to balance our private and work lives. Such a refuge is increasingly rare, however, due to the demands of modern life. Angela Neustatter...
The Rotten State of Britain
How Gordon Lost a Decade and Cost a Fortune
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Drily witty, based on 9 years of research from the vantage point of the Adam Smith Institute, Britain's oldest and most prestigious think tank, "The Rotten State of Britain" describes it as it is: under Gordon Brown leadership, Britain has achieved that sinking feeling. In this biting analysis...
Soul Music
The Pulse of Race and Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Can music change lives, and classical music in particular? In Soul Music, novelist and former activist of African descent, Candace Allen asks whether the pitched battles between 'our' music and 'their' music of her youth are alive among young people engaged in music study. She follows the beat of...
Spoilt Rotten
The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Not since Christopher Hitchens assault on Mother Theresa have so many sacred cows been slaughtered in such a short volume.' Spectator 'One of our most celebrated essayists.' Toby Young, Mail on Sunday '[A] cultural highlight.' Observer 'Surgical demolition.' Guardian In this perceptive and witty book,...
Litter
The Remains of Our Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
'What a book.' Clive Aslet, Country Life 'Characteristically brilliant.' Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times 'A little oasis of sanity.' Daily Mail. Driving the four hundred miles from Glasgow to London, Theodore Dalrymple found practically every yard of roadside to be littered with rubbish flapping in the...
The Knife Went In
Real-Life Murderers and Our Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
More than half a century ago, George Orwell wrote an essay about the decline of the English murder. Since the 1990s, Theodore Dalrymple has witnessed its modern variety in real life. For over a quarter of a century he has treated and examined many more murderers than most as a prison doctor, psychiatrist,...
by Susanna Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
The prodigiously gifted John Fleming and Hugh Honour were the last titans of art history, living in a beautiful, secluded Italian villa that cocooned their private lives as their world fame grew. To Susanna Johnston, however, they were simply John and Hugh, an inseparable couple and two of her closest...