Iceberg Slim's first three novels ("Pimp", "Trick Baby" and "Mama Black Widow") offered some of the rawest and bleakest visions of urban America ever put to paper. Their refusal to compromise, coupled with their reflection of society's underworld and underbelly, rapidly won him a major following. "T[...]

This charming story about a penguin colony in Antarctica illustrates key truths about how deal with the issue of change: handle the challenge well and you can prosper greatly; handle it poorly and you put yourself at risk. The penguins are living happily on their iceberg as they have done for many y[...]

The first and definitive biography of one of America's bestselling, notorious, and influential writers of the twentieth century: Iceberg Slim, ne Robert Beck, author of the multimillion-copy memoir"Pimp"and such equally popular novels as"Trick Baby"and"Mama Black Widow." From a career as a, yes, rut[...]

A new edition of the classic business parable that has sold more than a million copies since 2006.Our Iceberg Is Melting is a simple fable about doing well in an ever-changing world. Based on the award-winning work of Harvard's John Kotter, it is a story that has been used to help thousands of peopl[...]

The towering iceberg drifting in the North Atlantic was a floating tomb. Embedded in the great gleaming mass was a ship - sealed in so solidly that not even its mast protruded. Here was a sea mystery to rank alongside the Bermuda Triangle and the Marie Celeste. But for Major Dirk Pitt, top troublesh[...]

Winner of the Wellcome Prize A finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Award A memoir quite unlike any other. It has the strength of an arrow: taut, spiked, quavering, working to its fatal conclusion...an extraordinary story told in an extraordinary way. "The Sunday Times" The most hea[...]

Iceberg Slim's last published novel is perhaps his greatest. "Death Wish", written in Slim's typically hard-hitting and highly compulsive prose, tells the story of Chicago's Mafia and the power struggle that ensues when the greedy Don, Jimmy Collucci, attempts to become the king-pin of Chicago's "Ho[...]

"Doom Fox" is the final instalment in Iceberg Slim's searing sequence of highly-charged books that began with his critically acclaimed and multi-million selling autobiography, "Pimp". Slim's powerful, raw prose and eye-opening reflections of black ghetto realities have helped to redefine modern Amer[...]

In Iceberg Slim's first novel, "Trick Baby", he told the unforgettable tale of White Folks, a white Negro who uses his colour as his trump card in the tough game of the Con. Blue-eyed, light-haired and fair-skinned, White Folks was to become the most incredible con man the ghetto ever spawned. "Long[...]

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating, wild, and wonder-filled journey into Alaska, America's last frontier In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organized a most unusual summer voyage to the wilds of Alaska: He converted a steamship into a luxury[...]

A thought-provoking fable about change describes the experiences of a colony of beautiful emperor penguins living in Antarctica that are suddenly confronted by a potentially devastating problem threatening their home, and the efforts, ingenuity, and perseverance of a single bird to overcome the situ[...]

This charming story about a penguin colony in Antarctica illustrates key truths about how deal with the issue of change: handle the challenge well and you can prosper greatly; handle it poorly and you put yourself at risk. The penguins are living happily on their iceberg as they have done for many y[...]