Books
The Twyning
A story of love, war and rats.
This is the story of Efren, a young ratling born into the Court of Tasting, in the kingdom of rats below the city streets. The kingdom is in turmoil after the death of the old king, assassinated by a human scientist, Dr Henry Ross-Gibbon. Read more...
Though born into privilege and inheriting a fortune, Willie Donaldson ended up dying alone in a seedy rented flat, his computer still logged on to a lesbian porn site.
To some, he had been one of the great, underrated comic writers of our time, and to others, a dangerous force of corruption and decadence. Read more...
Gregory Keays is a writer whose brilliant future is behind him. But when an extraordinary student enters his life, Gregory is offered one last, glorious chance to save his career. Soon, however, Gregory’s Faustian pact with success unravels around him, and he must turn to darker, more duplicitous means to secure his fame. Set in the dangerous world where real life and literary ambition collide, Kill Your Darlings is an unforgettable novel of ego and delusion, villainy and the betrayal of love. Read more...
The return of Margaret Cowper, a woman from medieval times, in the form of a beautiful and enigmatic young stranger changes everything in the East Anglian village of Burthorpe. Secrets emerge, affairs are uncovered, the illusion of rural peace is shattered. Is Margaret an angel of death or a harbinger of love? This darkly comic novel takes the ghost story into a new and distinctly contemporary territory. Read more...
The death of Ollie Sincton seems at first an unpromising little murder. Who cares after all, about a fringe media character with a murky private life? But Sincton’s literary bequest, a series of computer disks revealing how certain public figures had enjoyed his professional or personal attentions, changes all that.
For the police, the case has celebrity cachet – in an age of visibility, one man’s murder can be another man’s career break – but, among the truly powerful, the death of a ghost has acquired a more worrying significance. Read more...
No up-to-date edition of Who’s Who would be complete without an entry for the man whose astonishing career has touched most of the great events of recent times. The gang wars of the fifties, the flowering of the love generation, the rise of feminism, espionage, the yuppie era – Fixx was there, sometimes in the thick of the action but more often playing a subtle, behind-the-scenes role. Read more...
The Meaning of Cantona
Meditations on Life, Art and Perfectly Weighted Balls
Terence Blacker & William Donaldson
Dr Kit Bryson has moved among Cantona's followers - the so-called Cantonistes - collecting aphorisms, reflections and snatches of changing-room badinage. Here is the contradictory essence of this simple, yet complex, character: artist and man of action; team leader and solitary maverick.
101 Things You Didn't Know About the Royal Lovebirds
Talbot Church
Talbot Church, court correspondent, is the man the Royals trust. Quoting extensively from confidential, off-the-record interviews, Church answers the questions the others dare not ask about a great royal wedding.
Written with Willie Donaldson
Let's Get Divorced
The Complete Divorce Workout Book by TV's Own Jonathan and Libby Hughes
Nigel Planer & Terence Blacker
In this send-up of the "Hello" world of celebrityhood, a fictional breakfast-TV pair show how couples can separate and still have fun. Read more...
