Stokers and Pokers; or, The London and North-Western Railway, the Electric Telegraph, and the Railway Clearing-House is a fascinating mid-19th-century travelogue and technical exploration by Sir Fra……続きを見る
著者:Dominic Head
出版社: Manchester University Press
発売日: 2013年07月19日
In this survey Ian McEwan emerges as one of those rare writers whose works have received both popular and critical acclaim. His novels grace the bestseller lists, and he is well regarded by critics,……続きを見る
Clementine Hunter (1887--1988) painted every day from the 1930s until several days before her death at age 101. As a cook and domestic servant at Louisiana's Melrose Plantation, she painted on hundr……続きを見る
著者:Rick Westhead
出版社: Random House of Canada
発売日: 2025年11月04日
**AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD
A hard-hitting and powerful look at hockey's moment of reckoning in Canada, and the ways in which a game that is so univ……続きを見る
The first major biography of legendary war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, whose life provides a unique and thrilling perspective on world history in an extraordinary time
Martha Gellhorn's heroic ca……続きを見る
Robert Barr has been almost completely overlooked by critics and anthologists of Canadian literature, in part because, although he was educated in Canada, he spent most of his life in the United Sta……続きを見る
This ambitious book presents the first sustained analysis of the evolving representation of Cuthbert, the premier saint of northern England. The study spans both major and neglected texts across eig……続きを見る
著者:Don Whitehead
出版社: Fordham University Press
発売日: 2009年08月25日
A Pulitzer Prize–winning combat correspondent recounts his personal experience of covering World War II on the front lines.
Legendary reporter Don Whitehead covered almost every important Allied inv……続きを見る
Martha Gelhorn's journalism tracks many of the flashpoints of the twentieth century; as a young woman she witnessed the suffering of the American Depression and risked her life in the Spanish Civil ……続きを見る
著者:Colson Whitehead
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2014年05月06日
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys • “Whitehead proves a brilliant sociologist of the poker world.” ーThe Boston Globe
In 2011, Grantland……続きを見る
Shortlisted for the 2017 PEN Ackerley Prize
‘The thing to remember about this story is that every word is true. If I never told it to a soul, and this book did not exist, it would not cease to be tr……続きを見る