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Tom Chamberlain was destined to be a soldier from the moment he discovered a faded picture of his father patrolling the streets...

Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history.

'She...

"Look after the dead," said the priests, "and the dead would look after you."
Young Prince Teppic is sent far away from his...

The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual centre of the western world. The writers collected here range from the...

Discover all sorts of water-based vehicles in this fun pop-up introduction to opposites!

With sturdy pop-ups, playful...

Discover all sorts of airborne vehicles in this fun pop-up introduction to colours!

With sturdy pop-ups, playful illustrations...

It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving...

'Barbecued billygoats!'

Can you imagine finding gold? That's just what the Swallows and Amazons and Dick and Dorothea decide...

Reunited for the summer, the Swallows and Amazons with Dick and Dorothea launch a prospecting expedition to find the lost gold...

When Jack and Joan Durbeyfield learn that their ancestors were the d'Urbervilles - a rich and well-known family - they hope it...

In these stories, Joyce describes the lives of ordinary Dubliners. Their lives are not always easy, and they have problems with...

Tohme... , Worner...

Has the office gone for ever? This book looks at the positive and negative sides of working remotely for employees, managers and...

Catherine Sloper is not pretty or clever, but she is rich. She lives in New York with her father, the respected doctor, Austin...

Newland Archer is going to marry the sweet, pretty May Welland. Everyone thinks that they are perfect together. Then, May's...

Frankie is nearly fourteen and teenage life certainly comes with its ups and downs. Her mum is seriously ill with MS and Frankie...

There are cities everywhere on Earth. More and more people live in cities around the world. But more and more animals make their...

A new Penguin edition of Ibsen's two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey...

Melancholy and funny, personal and surreal, Passing for Human is a neurological coming-of-age story in which Liana Finck goes in...

Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this...

A hilarious collection of the many articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio. It includes selected...

In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles’ life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive...

A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre,...

Passion, war and deadly secrets . . .

Wartime France, 1944

Trust absolutely no one.

This is the only advice newly...

India, 1992. The country is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terrible act of mob violence that...

An Englishman's home is his castle. But what if it's French?

One Place de L'Eglise is a thousand-year-old Languedoc ruin....

For better or worse. For richer or poorer. Till death us do part…
We've always done it, we're still doing it. Straight, queer,...

'I can feel the passage of time, as though it were coursing through my veins, along with my blood...'
One June day in 1955...

Isobel and Jen have spent their entire lives following the rules - of their marriages, and their religion.
But when Isobel's...

Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern...

You knew Hollywood would be difficult.

So when you land a job in television, you're ready for anything: pulling all-nighters,...