Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk

The book that was made into the highly succesful movie Fight Club starring Brad Pitt and Edward NortonEvery weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as t...

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three m...

Mr Impossible (Mr Men & Little Miss)

Roger Hargreaves

Mr Impossible could do the most amazing things. For instance, Mr Impossible could jump over a house and he could make himself invisible. He can even sleep standing on his head. The Mr Men and Little Miss have been delighting children for generations with their charming and funny antics. Bold illustratio...

Candide, or Optimism

Voltaire (FRANCOIS VOLTAIRE)

Theo Cuffe's marvelous translation of Voltaire's satirical masterpiece. With its vibrant new translation and perceptive introduction this new edition of Voltaire's masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of...

Wendy

Gus Gordon

Wendy doesn't want to be just any old chicken. She wants ADVENTURE. She wants EXCITEMENT. She wants TO BE A STAR! And then a travelling circus comes to town ...'This chicken is destined for great things!' The Pecking Order Post 'Gus Gordon's delightful Wendy is a trill-seeking chicken with enough ambiti...

Good Omens

Terry Pratchett

2020 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) to the Amazon/BBC tv series adaptation starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen. "Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don’t let you go around again until you get it right." People have been predicting the end of the world almost from ...

My Life and Other Massive Mistakes (#3 Tom Weekly)

Tristan Bancks; Gus Gordon (Illustrator)

I'm Tom Weekly. You think you've made mistakes? I've made more.Every single word in this book is true. I do know someone with the worst case of nits in history. Stella Holling used chocolate to trick me into kissing her again. My sister, Tanya, truly is an evil genius. And as weird as it sounds, I reall...

What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents

Nina Power

A philosopher asks, what exactly do men get out of being men in the twenty-first century?Something is definitely up with men. From millions online who engage with the manosphere to the #metoo backlash, from Men's Rights activists and incels to spiralling suicide rates, it's easy to see that, while men s...