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Jazz Age celebrity Idina Sackville dazzled men and women alike, and made a habit of marrying whenever she fell in love--five husbands in...

Many people had reasons for killing Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. But there are complications--like...

The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice.

"this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you..." In this dramatic adaptation of her...

A man is discovered adrift in the wreckage of a boat, babbling of horrors scarcely imaginable...this is his story.

To many people, hallucinations imply madness, but in fact they are a common part of the human experience. These sensory distortions range...

He's a charming monster... A macabre hero... A serial killer "who only kills bad peopleDexter Morgan has been under considerable pressure....

"A magical novel on the theme of androgyny. Funny, subtle, poignant..." - Nadine Sautel, Magazine litteraire. "Jacqueline Harpman drags...

One of Mitford's most enduringly popular works, "The Pursuit of Love" is a classic comedy about growing up and falling in love among the...

If there's one distinctive feature of the British countryside, it has to be the hedgerow. In fact, hedgerows are such an established part...

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational...

Love and jealousy erupt into violence in The Crazy Kill, a classic thriller in Chester Himes's trailblazing Harlem Detectives series. One...

Already an international bestseller, "Embers"--first published in Budapest in 1942--finds an aristocrat and his friend fighting a duel of...

Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s is a stark depiction of African-American...

SELIN IS THE LUCKIEST PERSON IN HER FAMILY:The only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's her second year, 1996,...

40 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDEHe's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it's up to Inspector Macbeth and his...

The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed...

'There is no such thing as autobiography, there is only art and lies'. Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters,...

In this inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories, Simon Sebag Montefiore--one of...

John Julius Norwich's A History of Venice has been dubbed "indispensable" żeby none other than Jan Morris. Now, in his second book on the...

Arguably America's greatest living poet, Sharon Olds enters her eightieth year with a book for our times: a book of fear, fragility and...

One of the country's most distinguished scholars presents a brilliantly original approach to the twin dilemmas of abortion and euthanasia,...

Pierson presents this wildly original and hilarious debut novel about the unintended consequences of big imaginations.

This unique and penetrating book surveys 100 years of military inefficiency from the Crimean War, through the Boer conflict, to the disasterous...

Examines the seedier side of Victorian life, and a turbulent period of history when revolution was in the air. In 1887, Government inspectors...

A poignant story of arranged marriage and forbidden love, set in rural China, which paints a vivid picture of a China which remains hidden...

Reissue of his debut novel, set in Paris in 1968. Christopher and Toni are eager to challenge the constraints of suburbia, but middle age...

In these ten arresting stories filled with exuberant imagination and emotional depth, debut author Russell takes readers to the ghostly...

While Virginia Woolf -- one of our century's most brilliant and mercurial writers -- has had no shortage of biographers, none has seemed...

Essential information about the principles and practice of homoeopathy, and grounded guidance for owners, breeders and veterinary surgeons.

I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditchdigger...

In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright...

From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse...

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award Goldstein presents a novel that transforms...

The latest chapter in the Trainspotting story.

Like "The Pencil," Petroskis "The Toothpick" is a celebration of a humble yet elegant device. As old as mankind and as universal as eating,...

Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a...

In this perceptive and provocative look at everything from computer software that requires faster processors and more support staff to antibiotics...

At a time when the Middle East has come closer to achieving peace than ever before, eminent Israeli historian Benny Morris explodes the...

The final classic collection of stories.

Spanning his entire life and divided into decades from the forties to the nineties, this book brings together Jarman's poetry, prose, memoirs,...

The first and only full-scale and definitive biography of the most important composer-lyricist in musical theater today. Drawing on personal...

We can't stop shopping but we must stop shopping - the consumer dilemma that defines our lives and our future. What would happen if we did?We...

What is silence? Where can it be found? Why is it now more important than ever? In this astonishing and transformative meditation, Erling...

'I'm alive inside. A bird is my heart. Mama and Daddy is not win.I'm winning.'This is the story of Precious, a sixteen-year-old illiterate...

Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City saw its first AIDS patient in August 1985. Working in Johnson...

'Striking...brilliantly done' The TimesAn ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and...

In his first collection of stories, William Boyd, winner of the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards, introduces unlikely heroes desperate...

New edition of a classic study, first published in 1932, with revised translation and new index.

Authoritative and immediate, this is a brilliant account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T. R. Fehrenbach traces the...

Winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, "Babel-17" is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language...

England im Jahr 1663: Der Giftmord an dem ehrenwerten Mitglied des New College Dr. Robert Grove versetzt ganz Oxford in Aufruhr. Von den...

Die Pest in Paris! Das Gerücht hält die Stadt in Atem, seit auf immer mehr Wohnungstüren über Nacht eine seitenverkehrte Vier erscheint...

"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It on the Mountain, originally...

How can we create a better world for LGBTQ+ people? Olly Alexander, Peppermint, Owen Jones, Beth Ditto, Holland and more share their stories...

From the misty mountains of the north to the southern seascape of the Algarve, the travels of Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago are a passionate...

Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman returns to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child--a retreat from the grief,...

Definitive biography which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award. Draws on a mass of previously unseen material to offer a strikingly...

This new collection of eleven stories by the author of The Blue Afternoon takes readers back in time from a contemporary Hollywood film...

Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why...

Arriving in Istanbul as a boy, Mevlut Karataş is enthralled żeby both the old city that is disappearing and the new one that is fast being...

Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland...

'A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them'....

*AS SEEN ON ITV'S THIS MORNING* - THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * The groundbreaking bestseller from Tim Spector, author of The Diet Myth...

THE UNTOLD STORY OF BRITAIN'S MOST SECRETIVE SPECIAL FORCES UNITJune 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich falls across Europe. In desperation,...

Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative NonfictionFrom Chicago to Mexico, the places Sandra Cisneros has lived have provided...

It's a subject that has occupied some of the greatest philosophers of all time, from Aristotle to Paul McKenna. In an attempt to find out,...

** Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month **The exhilarating new Inspector Adamsberg novel from France's multi-million-copy bestselling crime...

For the love of fine and wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson loses his life savings to a con man who knows the secret of turning ten-dollar bills...

With sharp and soulful insight, T. R. Luhrmann examines the world of psychiatry, a profession which today is facing some of its greatest...

On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Neville Chamberlain stepped off an aeroplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the...

Winner of the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction A profound and profoundly important book--a moving personal detective story, an...

From Deborah Moggach, bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, comes another hilarious and romantic comedy, this time set in...

Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she loved, Captain Wentworth. Now...

We'd like to introduce you to Elizabeth Finch.We invite you to take her course in Culture and Civilisation.She will change the way you see...

As a pianist, Glenn Gould was both a showman and a high priest, an artist whose devotion to music was so great that he eschewed the distractions...

A vivid and bewitching tale of innocence, creativity and desire, Stromme brings the tumultuous love affair that inspired one of the most...

Noir fiction telling the story of two born losers travelling together through an alternative American dream.

National BestsellerOne of the Best Books of the Year: "New York Times," "Washington Post," "Los Angeles Times," "USA Today," "Boston Globe,"...

In this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years...

The extraordinary final volume of 'the most significant literary enterprise of our times' (Guardian)The End is the sixth and final book...

'Extraordinary... One of her finest novels' Guardian"If everybody in the world didn't keep watching to see what everybody else did, we'd...

'During certain hours, at certain years in our lives, we see ourselves as remnants from the earlier generations that were destroyed... I...

Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global...