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Tom McCarthy
Film Tie-in edition to be published to coincide with the release of the film Remainder. Praised by Zadie Smith as one of the great English novels of the past ten…
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Painstakingly selected from the most moving battle accounts written about American heroism and breathtaking courage during the largest war in the world history, this breathtaking anthology brings readers to the…
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Follows the life of Serge Carrefax, a man who surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that obliterate him. Born to the sound…
A magnificent collection of gripping accounts of battles great and small throughout history
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…
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These are enduring stories of cats that have passed the test of time and have attracted discerning readers for generations.
Developing the Whole Person: A Practitioner’s Tale of Counseling, College, and the American Promise explores the achievements and difficulties of postwar counseling psychologists in advancing a whole person development model…
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Each of the true tales in Pirates and Shipwrecks, including stories about pirate Barbarossa and adventurer John Franklin, is paired with interesting facts about the setting, industry, and time period.
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These five tales of real adventure include the story of how Ernest Shackleton and his crew became trapped in the ice of Antarctica.
Why have the people of the Roanoke colony never been found? Weird Disappearances: Real Tales of Missing People introduces readers ages 9 to 12 to the mystery and suspense of…
Have you heard of the famous robbers D.B. Cooper or Marm Mandelbaum? Daring Heists: Real Tales of Sensational Robberies and Robbers, introduces readers ages 9 to 12 to the mystery…
Audacious pirate stories that fire our sense of adventure and romance.
In The Greatest Medal of Honor Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about heroes awarded the highest military honor that capture readers…
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From the early years of Western Expansion to the present day, our history is marked by the heroic exploits of the rescuer and the rescued in some of the most…
In The Greatest Sniper Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about snipers that capture readers imaginations, meticulously culled from books, magazines, movies…
Great American Shipwreck Stories is a magnificent collection of gripping accounts of a ship’s encounter with a great whale or an overwhelming monsoon or a disastrous passage through the Straits…
The Greatest Heist Stories Ever Told is a captivating collection of true stories celebrating the best heists ever pulled off-many still unsolved. It allows readers to appreciate the efforts that…
*Shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker prize* *Shortlisted for the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize * *‘A horrifyingly comic novel of ideas with its fingers jammed into the light-socket of the age’…
In The Greatest Air Combat Stories Ever Told, the editor has compiled the finest tales of heroism and valor in the skies over the battlefield! It is an unforgettable collection…
From the Booker Prize-nominated author of Remainder and Satin Island, a wide-screen odyssey through the medical labs, computer graphics studios, military research centers, and other dark zones where the frontiers…
The Greatest Military Mission Stories Ever Told is a recounting of the heroics of American forces’ missions of all kinds.
Discovering electricity. Ending up the richest man in the world. Becoming a candidate for sainthood. Leading the fight for Civil Rights. Getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of…
Rich in history and drama on the high seas, Sea Stories entertains, enlightens, and inspires. These are enduring stories that have passed the test of time and have attracted generations…
Haunted ships and ghoulish pirates abound in this thrilling collection.
Few people would want to test their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat with an Arctic explorer, sail the Straits of Magellan with Joshua Slocum, or watch with Owen Chase as…
The Greatest Polar Exploration Stories Ever Told is a visceral, exciting, and stunning collection of twelve stories recounting the bravery, resoluteness, and strength of the men who willingly traversed frozen…
In The Greatest Special Ops Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about Special Operations that capture readers imaginations, meticulously culled from books…
An extraordinary collection of fifteen stories that celebrate America’s unquenchable thirst for excitement, Great American Adventure Stories contains page-turning accounts of the Galveston Hurricane, the Alaska Gold Rush, a robbery…
An arresting collection of murder and mayhem from the front pages of history that captured the whole world’s attention.
Tom Mccarthy
In this essay, award-winning British novelist Tom McCarthy ( Remainder, C, Satin Island ) unearthes a pattern, a rationale that is working both in and against the canon of modern(ist)…
spends his days procrastinating, meandering through endless buffer-zones of information and becoming obsessed by the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis: oil spills, African traffic…
A first-ever compilation of the most courageous and stunning Coast Guard rescue stories. The Coast Guard is one of the nation’s five military services, which exist to defend and preserve…
The Greatest Sea Survival Stories Ever Told is a tribute to incredible men and women. Utterly absorbing and eminently entertaining, here is a collection of inspirational stories of life and…
Features the author’s own selection of the best of the essays he has published over more than a decade in such places as The Believer and the London Review of…
Or a sublimely mythical exploration of the animation, contemplation and possession of flesh - ours and others’ - traumatised, erotic, beautiful, obscene… Audacious and mesmeric, The Making of Incarnation weaves…
The vast majority of people that are trying to accomplish something big will fail and it’s not even their fault. People with big dreams always encounter daunting challenges. When you…
Men in Space is the first novel written by Booker Prize finalist McCarthy, author of Remainder and C –a clever entre into the art world, and a look at the…
The third of four special publications to accompany a year-long display of works from Barcelona’s la Caixa Collection at Whitechapel Gallery, selected by and featuring newly commissioned fictional works by…
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A prize-winning modern classic by the Man Booker shortlisted author Tom McCarthy. It contains a foreword by American scholar McKenzie Wark.
Exciting early work by the Man Booker-shortlisted author, discussing Herge’s hugely popular children’s books. McCarthy asks the question: is Tintin literature? and delves into a story of hushed-up royal descent…
McCarthy’s prose in his novel debut is being hailed as Rprecise and unpretentiousS ( The Independent [London]). Remainder explores the secret world individuals harbor within and what might happen if…
Presents the environmental history of the automobile that shows how consumer desire created impacts across the product lifecycle, from raw material extraction to manufacturing to consumer use to disposal. This…
