Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “simon okotie”
Skip side bar filters

  • After Absalon

    by Simon Okotie ...
    Series series Absalon Trilogy
    The story of a man walking down a ramp, After Absalon is the culmination of Simon Okotie's extraordinary trilogy of novels. Marguerite, a down-at-heel detective, is on the trail of Harold Absalon, the Mayor's transport advisor, who is missing presumed dead. Encountering a woman in a tight-fitting pinstriped suit entering a pedestrian underpass, he decides to follow her. Pursued in turn, and ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Whatever Happened to Harold Absalon?

    by Simon Okotie ...
    Series series Absalon Trilogy
    Harold Absalon, the Mayor's Transport Advisor, has gone missing. Down-at-heel detective Marguerite is trying to find him. Aware that his every action is being monitored by those reading the novel, Marguerite's mind and world is at constant risk of disintegration. Disturbed by attempts to understand himself and the nature of the objects he encounters, Marguerite's minute and comically digressive ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Absence of Absalon

    by Simon Okotie ...
    Series series Absalon Trilogy
    Longlisted for the 2017 Republic of Consciousness PrizeIn the Absence of Absalon revolves around an unnamed investigator, a set of keys and a townhouse. He is investigating a series of disappearances: of his colleague, Marguerite; of Harold Absalon, the Mayor's transport advisor, whose disappearance Marguerite had been investigating prior to his own disappearance; of Richard Knox, the owner of the ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Best British Short Stories 2021

    by Nicholas Royle, Julia Armfield, A. J. Ashworth, Iphgenia Baal, Emma Bolland, Tom Bromley, Gary Budden, Jen Calleja, Robert Dewa, John Foxx, Josephine Galvin, Uschi Gatward, Meave Haughey, Hilaire, Alice Jolly, Isha Karki, Yasmine Lever, Simon Okotie, Mel Pryor, Douglas Thompson, Matthew Turner ...
    Series Book 11 - Best British Short Stories
    The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eleventh year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Future of the Novel

    by Simon Okotie ...
    Series series The FUTURES Series
    Author and essayist Simon Okotie interprets the signposts – evident through the history of the novel – that point to the form’s future.We’re used to the novel being declared dead, dying, or endangered. Seemingly every few years, a critic will read it the last rites – yet the form remains more popular than ever with readers. In The Future of the Novel, author Simon Okotie presents a bold future for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Best British Short Stories 2025

    by David Bevan, Rose Biggin, Christopher Burns, Ian Critchley, Pippa Goldschmidt, Linden Hibbert, Hannah Hoare, Catrin Kean, Roger Luckhurst, Baret Magarian, Wyl Menmuir, Alison Moore, Okechukwu Nzelu, Simon Okotie, Imogen Reid, C. D. Rose, Iain Sinclair, Elizabeth Stott, Mark Valentine, Naomi Wood, Nicholas Royle ...
    Series Book 15 - Best British Short Stories
    The definitive showcase of the year's finest British short stories'Bravo to Salt's beacon of delight and intrigue – its annual collection of the UK's best short stories, from established and emerging voices.' —Duncan MinshullNow relaunched for a new era, Best British Short Stories returns with a bold new look and a renewed commitment to celebrating the art of the short story. As we enter our ... Read more

    $11.29 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Whatever

    by Michel Houellebecq, Won Prix Goncourt in 2010 for The Map and the Territory ...
    Series series Serpent's Tail Classics
    Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until, that is, he's packed off with a colleague - the unimaginably ugly, sexually-frustrated virgin Raphael ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • How Cav Won the Green Jersey

    Short Dispatches from the 2011 Tour de France

    by Ned Boulting ...
    This is not a 100,000-word, minute-by-minute, blow-by-blow account of the 2011 Tour de France.This is not the story of Cadel Evans.This is not the story of Alberto Contador, Andy Schleck, or Bradley Wiggins.And it's not even the story of Mark Cavendish.(Although he is in it quite a lot.)This is the story of the lesser-known heroes; the Johnny Hoogerlands, the Thomas Voecklers, the hitchhikers, the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • How to Travel

    by The School of Life ...
    Going travelling is one of the few things we undertake in a direct attempt to make ourselves happy - and frequently, in fascinating ways, we fail. We get bored, cross, anxious or lonely. It isn't surprising our societies act as if going travelling were simple, just a case of handing over the right sum of money. But a satisfying journey isn't something we can simply buy: it's the result of an art ... Read more

    $6.81 USD

  • Based on a True Story

    by Delphine de Vigan ...
    Translated by Mr George Miller ...
    The international sensation that sold half a million copies in France and the subject of a new film by Roman Polanski: a chilling story about a friendship gone terrifyingly toxic.Winner of Le Prix Renaudot 2015Winner of Le Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2015Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L., who embodies ... Read more

    $16.09 USD

  • Concise Townscape

    by Gordon Cullen ...
    This book pioneered the concept of townscape. 'Townscape' is the art of giving visual coherence and organization to the jumble of buildings, streets and space that make up the urban environment. It has been a major influence on architects, planners and others concerned with what cities should look like. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • How To Pass The UK Car Driving Test

    by Jeffrey Hammond ...
    A concise Plain English pocket guide to passing the UK Car Driving Test, written by a working Driving Instructor with 18 years of teaching experience. Available in print from bookshops, or online retailers. ISBN 9780956501707 ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus