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  • The Fathers

    by John Niven ...
    ‘Very funny’ Guardian‘Inkwell black and surprisingly tender’ ADAM KAY‘Outrageous’ MARINA HYDE‘A blockbusting explosion of toxic masculinity’ SpectatorIn a busy maternity ward, first-time father Dan meets Jada, a dad welcoming his fifth – no, sixth? – child into the world. But Dan and Jada come from very different places: both called Glasgow. Dan is a successful TV writer with ... ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Kill Your Friends

    A Novel

    by John Niven ...
    AS the twentieth century breathes its very last, with Britpop at its zenith, twenty-seven-year-old A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through London’s music industry. Blithely crisscrossing the globe in search of the next megahit—fueled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine—Stelfox freely indulges in an unending orgy of self-gratification. But the industry is changing fast ... Read more

    Was $12.49 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • The Amateurs

    A Novel

    by John Niven ...
    Gary Irvine's wife refuses to sleep with him, so he pursues an even stingier mistress: golf. But despite his spending unconscionable amounts of time and money, his game is wretched. Until the day he takes a perfect swing . . . and then everything goes black.After waking up from a coma a few weeks later, with a golf-ball-sized dent in his temple, Gary discovers that his last perfect swing has been ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Salmon P. Chase

    A Biography

    by John Niven ...
    Salmon P. Chase was one of the preeminent men of 19th-century America. A majestic figure, tall and stately, Chase was a leader in the fight to end slavery, a brilliant administrator who as Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury provided crucial funding for a vastly expensive war, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the turmoil of Reconstruction, and the presiding officer of the impeachment ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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    Spaceships Over Glasgow

    Mogwai, Mayhem and Misspent Youth

    Unabridged

    9 hours 56 min

    Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for a life of psychedelic adventuring on the furthest frontiers of noise in MOGWAI, one of the best loved and most ground-breaking post-rock bands of the past three decades.Modestly delinquent at school, Stuart developed an early appetite for 'alternative' music in what might arguably be described as ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Salmon P. Chase : A Biography

    A Biography

    by John Niven ...
    Salmon P. Chase was one of the preeminent men of 19th-century America. A majestic figure, tall and stately, Chase was a leader in the fight to end slavery, a brilliant administrator who as Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury provided crucial funding for a vastly expensive war, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the turmoil of Reconstruction, and the presiding officer of the impeachment ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Fathers

    by John Niven ...
    Narrated by Angus King ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 16 min

    FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF O BROTHERIn a busy maternity ward, first-time father Dan meets Jada, a dad welcoming his fifth – no, sixth? – child into the world. Dan and Jada come from very different places: both called Glasgow. Dan is a successful TV writer with a townhouse in the West End and a shiny Tesla ready to drive his wife and baby home. Jada is a hustling, small-time ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Straight White Male

    A Novel

    by John Niven ...
    From the bestselling author of Kill Your Friends, a wildly funny look at the midlife crisis of a loveable rogue. "A high-octane novel of excess" (Ian Rankin).Irish novelist Kennedy Marr is a first rate bad boy. When he is not earning a fortune as one of Hollywood's most sought after scriptwriters, he is drinking, insulting, and philandering his way through Los Angeles, 'successfully debunking the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Kill Your Friends

    A Novel

    by John Niven ...
    Narrated by Joe Jameson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 58 min

    As the twentieth century breathes its very last, with Britpop at its zenith, twenty-seven-year-old A&R (artist and repertoire) man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through London's music industry. Blithely crisscrossing the globe in search of the next megahit—fueled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine—Stelfox freely indulges in an unending orgy of self-gratification. But the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    O Brother

    by John Niven ...
    Narrated by John Niven ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 3 min

    AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA GUARDIAN BEST MEMOIR OF 2023A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023AN iNEWS BEST BOOK TO GIFTJohn Niven’s little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes terrifying. In 201... ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Three Trips in Time and Space

    Each major advance in the technology of communication or transportation has brought profound transformations and dislocations to human society. Three of science fiction's greatest authors--Larry Niven, Jack Vance, John Brunner--explore what would happen if teleportation were invented.Suppose it were possible, technologically and economically, to transport oneself to any point on the earth's ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frederick John Niven, Collection

    Frederick John Niven, (born March 31, 1878, Valparaíso, Chile—died Jan. 30, 1944, Vancouver, B.C., Can.), was a regional novelist who wrote more than 30 novels, many of them historical romances, set in Scotland and Canada. Three of his best-known novels—The Flying Years (1935), Mine Inheritance (1940), and The Transplanted (1944)—form a trilogy dealing with the settlement of the Canadian west ... Read more

    $2.99 USD