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Manx Heritage Foundation, November 2009
978-0-9562064-4-2
The Manx Giant is John’s second non-fiction book, following The Manx Connection, published in 2007. John was approached to write the book by a descendant of the Giant, who had gathered research about Caley over a period of several years. A former journalist, John now works in advertising and PR. He has also recently established a small publishing house, with the first two titles due for release soon
Born in Sulby, Isle of Man in 1824, Arthur Caley was a phenomenon, a force of nature the likes of which the Island will probably never see again. At 7ft 11ins and weighing in at more than 400lbs, he was the tallest Manxman who ever walked, but he left to find his fame and fortune in freak shows around the UK and in Europe....
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St Martin's Press, August 2009
978-0-312-38547-7
When the British Science Association ran a poll asking the general public which science question they'd most like answered, they said 'what came before the Big Bang?' Brian wanted to bring out the fascinating truth behind this question and to show just how the Big Bang theory is just one of a range of ever more startling theories that cosmologists have for the origins of the universe.
From the earliest creation myths, through the eighteenth century astronomer William Herschel's realization that the Milky Way was one of many galaxies, to ongoing debates about black holes, this is an exploration of the origins of the universe and the many enigmas it poses.
The idea of a Big Bang doesn't so much answer questions as pose new ones. Brian challenges the concept of the Big Bang...
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Headline Review, hardback 2008, paperback 2009
ISBN: 978-0755345557 (paperback)
Rosy Thornton wrote her third novel after being lambasted by her family for always falling into conversation with strangers – on buses, at supermarket checkouts, and even on the phone to the insurance call centre!
This is the story of Peter, a Cambridge geography don who crashes his car into a tree stump when swerving to avoid a cat, and Mina, the girl at the Sheffield call centre who deals with his insurance claim. It tracks their parallel lives, as well those of their families - because both Peter and Mina are single parents.
An old-fashioned fairy tale of love across the class divide, it is also a book about the small joys and tribulations of parenthood; about one-ness and two-ness;...
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Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd, July 2009
ISBN 978-0224085304
An award-winning short story writer, Chika Unigwe, 34, was born in Enugu, Nigeria, and now lives in Belgium with her husband and four children.
On Black Sisters’ Street is her second novel, but the first to be published internationally in English. It recounts the stories of four African prostitutes living in Belgium, whose lives are shattered when one of them is murdered.
Jonathan Cape describes On Black Sisters’ Street as ‘a moving story of the illusion of the West through African eyes, and its annihilation’ but calls it ‘a story of courage, of unity and of hope’. American rights have been sold to Random House, New York, and it’s already been published in Italian and Dutch.
Chika used Litopia as a sounding board for the first draft of the novel. ‘I received some...
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