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A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics...
Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old...
Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in...
An absorbing historical novel of power and betrayal, loyalty and political intrigue in thirteenth-century England, Wales and...
In Consciousness Explained, Daniel C. Dennett reveals the secrets of one of the last remaining mysteries of the universe: the...
McPherson recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War including the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas...
1752, the Liverpool Merchant sets sail from Merseydale. A slaver, she is bound for Africa to buy men and transport them in chains...
Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, The Pigeon is Patrick Suskind's tense, disturbing...
Who rose to enduring fame on Blood and Typewriters?
Who told the pregnant Portia of the Chambers it would come out in the...
The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search...
If you want to discover the captivating history of the French Revolution, this is the book for you . . .
Concise, convincing...
The eight stories in this volume offer a varied and representative collection of twentieth century German authors from a range of...
Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and...
Discover a chilling twentieth century classic, delving into the dark and complex heart of childhood
'Some people are coming...
These eight stories by leading 20th century French writers offer fascinating insights into French life and literature and are...
Billy Casper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say; part of the limbo generation of school leavers too old for lessons...
In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs....
Originally written to entertain, move or chill, the eight short stories in this collection accompanied by parallel English...
In 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish...
Much maligned in pre-war Germany, the short story enjoyed a creative rebirth in 1945. Initially imported by the Allies, the form...
Vonnegut's riotous urban fairytale about the various fiascos of the Nixon years - a firm fan favourite
Walter J. Starbuck's...
Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped...
A party of English people board the Euphrosyne bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, young, innocent and wholly...
A village pageant is to take place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for time beyond memory. Written and...
Where the Jackals Howl is prize-winning author Amos Oz's first collection of stories. On publication it received immediate...
Harry is a black and white dog who hates having a bath - so when he sees his owner with the dredded bath, he runs away. But in...
When eccentric Professor Dupont tries to track down his troupe of brightly-coloured cockatoos, they're always just one step ahead...
'And if Ferdinand decides to make
a chocolate fudge banana cake
What do we do? For goodness sake!
We All Join In!'
This...
Fima, our eponymous hero, is a receptionist at a gynaecology clinic. A preposterous, yet curiously attractive figure, he spends...
Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything.
The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception....
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