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C by Tom McCarthy
Category: Fiction
"C" follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him. Born to the sound of one of the very earliest experimental wireless stations, Serge finds ...Show more
Lonely Planet East Africa by Anthony Ham, Ray Bartlett, Stuart Butler, Jean-Bernard Carillet, Shawn Duthie, David Else, Mary Fitzpatrick, Anna Kaminski, Tom Masters, Carolyn McCarthy, Helena Smith
Category: Travel | Series: Travel Guide Ser.
Lonely Planet: The world's number one travel guide publisher* Lonely Planet's East Africa�is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Feel the pounding of hooves as wildebeest stampede across the plains of the Serengeti; get c ...Show more
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
Category: Fiction
A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it. Then, one night, an ordinary sight sets off a series of bizarre visions he can't quite place. How he goes about bringing his visions to life- and what happens afterwa ...Show more
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
Category: Fiction
Meet U. - a talented and uneasy figure currently pimping his skills to an elite consultancy in contemporary London. His employers advise everyone from big businesses to governments, and, to this end, expect their 'corporate anthropologist' to help decode and manipulate the world around them - all the mo ...Show more
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
Category: Fiction
"U. is a 'corporate anthropologist' who, while working on a giant, epoch-defining project no one really understands, is also tasked with writing the Great Report on our society. But instead, U. spends his days procrastinating, meandering through endless buffer-zones of information and becoming obsessed ...Show more
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
Category: Fiction
Meet U. – a talented and uneasy figure currently pimping his skills to an elite consultancy in contemporary London. His employers advise everyone from big businesses to governments, and, to this end, expect their 'corporate anthropologist' to help decode and manipulate the world around them – all the mo ...Show more
The Greatest Military Mission Stories Ever Told by Tom McCarthy
Category: Military | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The orders to proceed were nothing more than an invitation to die, and usually in unpleasant ways. But the soldiers proceeded nonetheless, because a higher cause was at stake. This stunning collection of stories is a tribute to the courage, steely resolve, and discipline of men who accomplished daunting ...Show more
The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told by Tom McCarthy
Category: True Crime | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Guilty as charged. If reading true crime is a guilty pleasure, this collection of stunning heists and unspeakable murders from the front pages of history will leave no doubt about the verdict. Three unsuspecting men's lives cut short at the hands of their lovers in Gangland Chicago, a mysterious and mur ...Show more
The Making of Incarnation by Tom McCarthy
Category: Fiction
The most ambitious and exciting book to date by the author of the bestselling and prize-winning novel 'C'Bodies in motion. Birds, bees and bobsleighs. What is the force that moves the sun and other stars? Where's our fucking airplane? What's inside Box 808, and why does everybody want it? Deep within t ...Show more
The Making of Incarnation by Tom McCarthy
Category: Fiction
The most ambitious and exciting book to date by the author of the bestselling and prize-winning novel 'C' Bodies in motion. Birds, bees and bobsleighs. What is the force that moves the sun and other stars? Where's our fucking airplane? What's inside Box 808, and why does everybody want it? Deep within t ...Show more
Tintin and the Secret of Literature by Tom McCarthy
Category: Reference
Herge's Tintin cartoon adventures have been translated into more than fifty languages and read by tens of millions of children aged, as their publishers like to say, 'from 7 to 77'. Arguing that their characters are as strong and their plots as complex as any dreamt up by the great novelists, Tom McCart ...Show more
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