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Irvine Welsh "Trainspotting" | George Orwell Explores everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic, from freedom of the press to what patriotism really means. |
David Foster Wallace * The cult novel by one of America's most acclaimed authors, reissued with a fresh new jacket look | Martin Amis This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordinaire. Rolling around New York and London, he makes deals, spends wildly and does reckless movie-world business, all the while grabbing everything... |
Patrick Hamilton; J.B. Priestley London 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation with Netta who is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George... | Thomas De Quincey Describes the surreal hallucinations, insomnia and nightmarish visions, the author experienced while consuming daily large amounts of laudanum. This book presents an account of the pleasures and pains of opium... |
William S. Burroughs; Oliver Harris A novel that offers an account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses. | Charles Bukowski Low life writer and alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. At the age of fifty, he is living the life of a rock star, running three hundred hangovers a... |
Ernest Hemingway Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous... | James Frey An intense, instantly engaging, hard-hitting, yet beautifully written memoir of a life beyond the brink that touches every nerve. |
Howard Marks During the mid-1980s, Marks had 43 aliases and 25 companies, all laundering money from dealing cannabis. After a world-wide operation, he was arrested and sentenced to 25 years at a... | |
Jay McInerney You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. So begins our hero's trawl through the brightly... | Kingsley Amis A gift for anyone who loves good liquor and high-proof prose: a collection of hilarious and deeply informed writings about drink from one of the all-time authorities. With an Introduction... |
Chuck Palahniuk Victor Mancini has devised a scam to pay for his mother's medical care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who "saves"... | Alan Sillitoe With a new introduction by Richard Bradford. Alan Sillitoe's classic novel of the 1950s, reissued to coincide with the 50th... |