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"Wuthering Heights" is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn...

A master storyteller, sympathetically in touch with real children and their interests, has created characters who are accepted as friends...

"A useful, important book that reminds us, at the right time, how hard [European unity] has been, and how much care must be taken to avoid...

A veteran correspondent for "The Atlantic" explores how American imperialism is pursued and how the global war on terrorism is fought worldwide...

A Book of Memories is made up of three first-person narratives: The first, that of a young Hungarian writer and his fated love for a German...

Even Barney Panofsky's friends tend to agree that he is 'a wife-abuser, an intellectual fraud, a purveyor of pap, a drunk with a penchant...

When Jerry, Jimmy and Kathleen are forced to spend their summer away from home they don't imagine they will have a particularly interesting...

Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of...

In 1988 Ericka and Julie Ingram began making a series of accusations of sexual abuse against their father, Paul Ingram, who was a respected...

The outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece from the...

In 1970, Sara Ehrenreich boards a small plane and returns to New York City with much fanfare; she will be featured in "Life "magazine. She...

This sequel to Faulkner's "Sanctuary", written 20 years later, takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in...

From the acclaimed author of Taipei, a bold portrait of a writer working to balance all his lives artist, son, loner as he spins the ordinary...

Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian community, thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from...

In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged...

The first great Brexit novel, and the final volume in the trilogy that began with The Rotters' Club and The Closed Circle Beginning nine...

The basis of Martin Scorcese's acclaimed 2003 film, The Gangs of New York is a dramatic and entertaining glimpse at a city's dark past.Focusing...

'At last, with A Barthes Reader, we have a sort of Michelin guide to one of the most beguiling minds of our era. Smartly introduced by Susan...

In her fourth collection, Leontia Flynn rehearses and resolves the concerns and forms of previous books, beginning with a sequence written...

The outstanding new Inspector Sejer novel from the award-winning Norwegian Queen of Crime

This is a great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and...

STRICTLY PRIVATE. KEEP OUT ON PAIN OF DEATH. I'm Tracy Beaker - have you heard of me? I'm stuck in The Dumping Ground just at the moment,...

From the bestselling author of "Of Paradise and Power" comes a major reevaluation of Americas foreign policy from the colonial era to the...

Professional cycling is a rich, dynamic and often controversial sport that lends itself to great writing. Some of the most famous and illustrious...

A black satire on the fall of communism in the former Soviet Union, set in Kiev. "A minor tragi-comic masterpiece" }Daily Telegraph{.

In the little Polish town of Goray, ravaged by a terrible pogrom, expectations of the 'End of Days' foretold aby cabalists run high. Grief...

An important składnik in Japanese baseball is wa--group harmony--embodied in the proverb "The nail that sticks up shall be hammered down."...

From a highly decorated general, a brilliant new way of understanding war and its role in the twenty-first century.Drawing on his vast experience...

On July 4th, 2012, one of physics' most exhilarating results was announced: a new particle - and very likely a new kind of particle - had...

Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited 'faces'. The Italianistas. The scooter-riding, all-night-dancing instigators of what became, from...

Acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel traces the careers of two brilliant young doctors--Sigmund Freud, neurologist, and William Halsted,...

The heroes of John Pilger's narrative are the many ordinary people he has witnessed coping with their lives in difficult and often brutal...

Trade paperback. Subtitled, }Why The World Went To War In 1914{. A riveting narrative of a crucial time in twentieth century history.

This title comes with an introduction aby Audrey Niffenegger. "Love" is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971. With...

A son's quest to avenge his mother's murder. In 1948, in a Greek mountain village, Eleni Gatzoyiannis was arrested, tortured and shot. She...

"An insightful, tender and inspiring memoir that explores the emotional side of a doctor’s working life. ‘Brilliant, compelling… A hugely...

An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him.

J.C. Masterman was chairman of the Double-Cross Committee at the height of World War Two. This is his account of the double agents, deception...

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Where have all the grownups gone? In answering that question with the same freewheeling erudition and intuitive brilliance that made Iron...

Argues that mistranslation has distorted Freud's work in English and led students to see a system intended to cooperate flexibly with individual...

Karl Ove Knausgaard writes with exhilarating honesty about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship...

Psychologists have long been aware that most people maintain an irrationally positive outlook on life--but why? Turns out, we might be hardwired...

Filled with humor and pathos, the long-awaited new novel żeby the bestselling author of "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" tells a story about...

Drawing on first-hand experience of war zones around the world, the author explains the role of aid workers and discusses the shortcomings...

From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel. Lionel...

In 1879, armed only with their spears, their rawhide shields, and their incredible courage, the Zulus challenged the might of Victorian...

A brilliant, original history of the spice trade--and the appetites that fueled it. It was in search of the fabled Spice Islands and their...

The Sound of Gravity is a harrowing, dramatic and powerful tale of how a haunting splitsecondmemory can change the course of a lifetime...

'A brilliant and seemingly effortless accomplishment...steady uninterrupted delight' Sunday TelegraphFaculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner...

New York Times best-selling author Michelle Goldberg tells the globetrotting story of the incredible woman who brought yoga to the West....

"The Essential Hemingway" brings together a wide selection of Hemingway's works, providing the perfect introduction to his extensive writing....

James Van Praagh teaches that death is not the end, nor is it something to be feared, and that there is indeed life after death. He believes...

Twelve years of marriage, three children, a husband, Henrik, with whom she no longer finds anything in common: Anna is at the end of her...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2014 §§A stunning narrative that reveals China as we have never understood it before.§

Peter Mayle sets his latest irresistible tale in the thyme- and lavender-scented south of France. Bennett, a suave if slightly threadbare...

Award-winning historian Dalrymple presents a brilliantly researched, evocatively written study of the fall of the Raj and the beginning...

There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, is it possible that there is a secret one-hundredth name? In this tale of magic and mystery,...

'Serrailler, Hill's brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer's crime fiction novels' CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALL'Beautifully...

Foster's dramatic skill is well-known in London's West End theaters. So perhaps it wasn't so surprising when he was hired żeby an American...

Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds's poetry 'pure fire in the hands' and cheered the 'roughness and humour and brag and tenderness...

A VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES ORIGINAL A literary event: Raymond Carver's complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the recently...

Perhaps only someone who has worked for almost a decade as a medic in New York City's Hell's Kitchen--as Joe Connelly has--could write a...

Following the magisterial To the End of the Land, the universally acclaimed Israeli author brings us an incandescent fable of parental grief...

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In his customary pose as the grumpiest of grumpy old men, Raymond Briggs contemplates old age and death... And doesn't like them much. Illustrated...

Subtitled, }A Stephen Jay Gould Reader{. A dazzling and generous selection of the best and most representative writing by one of the best...

This sparkling novel about how four sane, intelligent, and good-hearted people manage to find love in spite of themselves abounds in good...

What would you do if you turned on the television and saw you were the most wanted terrorist in the country? After spending a night with...

The story of superclub Bayern Munich żeby the critically acclaimed author of Tor!

The award-winning novelist brings his trademark humour and lightly worn intelligence to the contemporary art world

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not...

Over the course of one summer, eight-year-old Pu Bergman makes the terrible realisation that his father and mother are no longer in love.

"This man could plainly do for mathematics what Brian Cox has done for physics." (Sunday Times). What goes on inside the mind of a rock-star...

Irresistible to women, the beautiful, young Yuichi embarks on a loveless marriage while he enters a homosexual underworld during postwar...

Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris' most feared prison, the Bastille. Finally...

But, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day, Islamic society in its Middle Eastern heartlands has in fact been...

The Greatest Footballer Never to Have Played Football. Carlos Kaiser was a truly remarkable footballer. From the early '80s to the late...

The courtroom confrontations of America's most outspoken lawyer of last resort he lawyer who won the Claus von Bulow appeal. 'An over-used...

The scene is Treblinka; the character is Franz Stangl. The theme is the mass extermination of men, women and children. As Commandant of...

An unprecedented and masterfully told biography of Jacques Cousteau that reveals for the first time the fascinating and compelling individual...

'I've been telling everyone I know about Mary Lawson... Each of her novels is just a marvel' Anne TylerClara's rebellious older sister is...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION aby LIONEL SHRIVER Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a...

Ogres, giants and bogeymen embody some of our deepest fears, dominating popular storytelling in various media, from classic fairy tales...

Ernest Hemingway witnessed many of the seminal conflicts of the twentieth century, as a Red Cross ambulance driver during the First World...

The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Founding Brothers" delivers a landmark biography that brings to life in all his complexity the...

Groucho Marx may be the funniest man who ever lived. Here in one volume are the classics of Marxian mayhem: excerpts from the scripts of...

Following the success of 'Healing for Horses', in this book, Margrit Coates explains how readers can learn to interact with equines on a...

During the 1970s and 1980s, Peter Matthiessen took part in a number of expeditions to Africa, witnessing first-hand the continent's many...

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Krishna, an English teacher in the town of Malgudi, nagged by the feeling he's doing the wrong work, is nonetheless delighted by his domestic...

From the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian...

Following his subject from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph Ellis unravels the contradictions...

The third in the series, following on from }Flora{ and }Bugs{. Not a biological guide, this instead looks at the natural world through the...

This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. She is pregnant aby her...

Marie 'Missie' Vassiltchikov as a White Russian emigree caught with her family in Hitler's Germany at the outbreak of the war. She was a...

'This night will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.' It's Christmas time in the Stanton family house: presents, carol singing,...

The Arnolfini portrait, painted by Jan van Eyck in 1434, is one of the world's most famous paintings. This haunting gem of medieval art,...

Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom aby thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to...

The most dramatic, revealing and little-known story in Turkey's history - which illuminates the nation'Through the spellbinding career of...

From the zeros of the mathematician to the void of the philosophers, from Shakespeare to the empty set, from the ether to the quantum vacuum,...

David Wardale - writer for the UK's number one Fantasy Football site, Fantasy Football Scout - meets previous winners to discover how they...

As the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an initimacy with his subject granted to few biographers. Originally published in...

It's a world you'll never tire of exploring' IAN RANKINBeware the Badger! The acclaimed steampunk series from graphic-novel pioneer Bryan...

Over the years, the author has not been able to stop thinking about Roger Federer, the greatest and most graceful tennis player of all time....

When Sophie Brinkmann meets Hector Guzman, she knows everything that she needs to: he's handsome, he's charming and he makes her happy....

This book explores the question of why religious faith persists despite modern scientific knowledge.

A collection of twenty-five essays on Spain, from the author of }Rituals{ and }The Following Story{. Written between 1979 and 1992, these...

Here is the remarkable life story of Benoit Mandelbrot, the creator of fractal geometry, and his unparalleled contributions to science mathematics,...

The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to Otoko, a young woman with whom he had...

Who were the ancient Greeks? They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. But what was it that enabled them to...

In these coolly observant essays, Didion looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and...

Lanterne rouge: French / noun: The red lantern that hangs on the rear of a train; The competitor who finishes last in the Tour de France....

Crime scene investigator Dexter Morgan is not unaccustomed to seeing evil deeds--particularly because he commits them himself. But at a...

'A potent, vaporous fever dream; a meditation on truth, lies, illusion and time' - NEW YORK TIMES'Herzog's writing bristles with the same...

Rafah, a town at the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Seemingly a footnote to a long history of killing, that day...

Lily Bart has no fortune, but she possesses everything else she needs to make an excellent marriage: beauty, intelligence, a love of luxury...

Classic crime from the author best known for }Winnie-The-Pooh{, reissued for a new generation. The Red House is full of secret passages,...

Bouncing at a local club żeby night and living żeby the grace of his best friend Leonard Pine and his good woman Brett Sawyer żeby day,...

This volume includes three of Capote's best-known stories, "House of Flowers," "A Diamond Guitar," and "A Christmas Memory," in addition...