Alex - Libros y biografía

Alex Wong's first collection, Poems Without Irony (2016), was a book that took nothing for granted, that broke through to the particularity of things and experiences, distrusting and defying generality....

What's gone wrong?' This is the question posed by Alex Boraine. A question on the lips of millions of South Africans. Boraine attempts to answer this urgent question from the vantage point of wide experience...

DARKER ENDS is the third title by Alex Nye, again inspired by the landscape and history of Scotland. This time Glencoe is the background setting, and the ghosts of the recent past mingle with the dark...

So you think you've got problems? In this book, you will be: Imprisoned by a sadistic logician. Challenged to raise dogs from the dead. Trapped on a burning island. And much more besides...

The door flew open, and Granny stared out at Cat with wild eyes. 'So,' she said, almost in a whisper, 'they're back.'   For the first time in over fifty years, the Trooping Fairies are in...

Fjaka: the sublime state of aspiring to do absolutely nothing. Warmduscher: a 'warm showerer', meaning a bit of a wimp. Tener mano izquierda: literally 'to have a left hand'; to be skilfully persuasive....

In 2015, when Alex Silberman was twenty-seven years old, he hitchhiked alone from East Coast America's chilly Boston Harbor, north and west past Southern Ontario, before finally materializing from a desert...

Arcidiocesi d'Aquitea. Trecentocinquant'anni dall'Ultima Battaglia. La neve, quell'anno, era caduta fitta, portando una servitù di gelo, cupe tenebre e bocche affamate. Con lei era giunto il vento glaciale...

Undici Racconti. Unidici storie unite solo dalla provenienza, la penna dell'autore. Undici racconti che ruotano attorno all'amore e la morte, apici alternanti dell'esistenza. La Morte che tutto appiana....

Alex Henshaw had the luck to grow up in the '20s and '30s during the golden age of flying. The Blue Riband of flying in the British Isles between the two World Wars was the King's Cup: Henshaw set his...

The Science of Stretching is a research-based book that brings together the scientific principles of many different modalities of stretching and its application to the general and sporting populations....

'Bir Çocu?un Zaman Yolculu?u Maceralar?' kitab?nda onber ya??nda normal bir okul çocu?u olan Morris Kemp'in komik zaman yolculu?u maceralar? anlat?l?yor.Çift Cam i? deneyiminde kendisine ve ak?l hocas?...

Prima parte di una serie giunta al quindicesimo volume. Una giovane ribelle vede la propria vita scombussolata da una misteriosa eredità, per cui scopre che la madre le aveva nascosto la sua vera identità,...

Krátký p?íb?h ze sv?ta speciálních jednotek SAS plný akce a nap?tí. Sledujte za?átek kariéry Aidana Snowa. Severní Irsko, listopad 1994. ?lenové SAS, Aidan Snow a Paddy Fox, do?asn? p?evelení k DETu,...

O Governo o fez mortal, vampiros o fizeram imortal… Um novo herói e um novo gênero do autor best-seller Alex Shaw. Brad Black, codinome ‘Peter Pan’ é um membro de uma unidade de elite; a Força Delta dos...

Meet Death, as you have never met her before.Even the Birds Grow Silent is a collection of narrative fragments told by Death herself. Death feels she gets a very bad press nowadays, and is keen to tell...

NATHAN TREEVES IS DEAD, murdered by the Master of Mordew, his remains used to create the powerful occult weapon known as the Tinderbox.His companions are scattered, making for Malarkoi, the city of the...

GOD LIES DEFEATED, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew.On the surface, the streets of this the sea-battered city are slick with the Living Mud and the half-formed, short-lived creatures...

Do you want to travel the world but feel overwhelmed and unclear where to begin? Don't let fear stop you. Filled with useful advice and tasks, Plan Safe Travel: Solo is a straightforward 5-stage planning...

From forgotten jellybeans to sparking daydreams, Alex's poems, written for primary school age children, are both funny and thoughtful, and aim to spark familiarity and inclusion. And the illustrations...

The Book of the Farm, written by the 19th-century farming expert Henry Stephens, was the indispensable farming 'bible' referred to by the historians living and working on the BBC series Victorian Farm....

Nancy Jansen is the beating heart of her family. She is the centre around whom many lives turn. Mother Therapist Daughter Sister Wife But Nancy has a new role: Lover Everybody...

In his highly acclaimed novel Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day) created a remarkable story of love, loss and hidden truths. In it he posed the fundamental question: What makes us...

In the queue for the toilets at Gatwick, a teenage girl catches 57-year-old Margaret Benson's eye in the mirror and mouths the world help. Margaret's reaction leads to the dramatic rescue of the teenager...

When Walter Watters - aka 'Wattie' - finds out that the hiding place of gold from a major robbery is known to another, he's instantly on the trail. As the sheriff of a small town, he knows that he has...

The second title in this gorgeously imaginative middle grade fantasy adventure series combining the best of Peter Pan, Lemony Snicket, Northern Lights and Alice in Wonderland. Stella Starflake Pearl...

Drawing on more than 160 interviews with many of the most significant figures of the era, 'Independence Days' documents the UK independent record label boom from the late 1970s onwards. While many leading...

In the third magical Stella Starflake adventure the explorers meet gargoyles, sea-gremlins, mermaids, red devil squids - even a Gentleman Flamingo! Ice princess Stella Starflake and her father Felix...

In their fifth thrilling adventure, the explorers journey deep into the Bubble Ocean on their quest to stop the evil Collector, but time is running out . . .The Poison Tentacle Sea was home to the powerful...

In this fourth explorers adventure we meet Ursula, a part mermaid girl who is determined to follow in Stella's footsteps and help her to defeat the Collector!Ursula knew the submarine wasn't designed...