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Being a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to...

Kenneth Graham's The Wind in the Willows is one of the most celebrated works of literature for children, and this Penguin...

'He lay crumpled on his back. Very lonely, very dead. The safe door was wide open. A metal drawer was pulled out. It was empty...

One life. One choice. One sacrifice.

To save those closest to her, Simi sacrificed everything - her freedom, her life as mami...

This is the story of an old English manor house by the sea, with crumbling chimneys, draping ivy and a library full of dusty...

Ford Madox Ford's extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The Good Soldier, is edited with an introduction by David Bradshaw...

Surrounded by the dramatic beauty of Guernsey, a teenager discovers a secret and finds his betrayal has the power to ruin adult...

From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, his acclaimed novel of a young couple trying to survive life in 1930s...

After spending five years researching and writing about the food of Spain, Claudia Roden has produced this definitive, passionate...

A classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime, The Long Good-Bye is the sixth novel featuring laconic PI...

They say the Hollow Sea is cursed. A wild expanse separating the remote islands of St Hia, not even the locals brave its...

Ceylon, 1935. Louisa Reeve, the daughter of a successful British gem trader, and her husband Elliot, a charming, thrill-seeking...

'Vanity, not love, has been my folly'

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him...

'Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us, creating a picture I will never forget for the rest of my life.'

In 2020, an...

Inside lies a secret that won't stay hidden…
The Great War is ending, but it has taken Ivy's son. Ivy is consumed by discovering...

'Everything was quiet and sunny and calm. No cause for excitement whatever. It's only Marlowe, finding another body. He does it...

Daiyu was named after a ghost…
Little Daiyu is twelve when her parents disappear. So she runs, disguising herself as a boy, to...

Luna, Rory and Jodie are supposed to be having the time of their lives. Instead they're all completely bloody miserable.

Luna...

The Forest House tells of an era of upheaval and change. The Roman grip on their empire was slackening; the Druidic Order - far...

James Baldwin's electrifying first novel.

'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'

Drawing on...

Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his...

'Home looks nice. Allus does though, don't it? Perfick'

And so the Larkins - Pop, Ma, Mariette, Zinnia, Petunia, Primrose,...

'Happiness - was it right to name it without knowing it? It sounded shameless in my mouth, like when someone shows off about...

Austria, 1938: The Vienna Writers Circle meets at Cafe Mozart to share hopeful stories during a hopeless time.
But when the take...

A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and...

The powerful writings collected together in this volume chronicle George Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the...

Charlotte Pettifer belongs to a secret society skilled in witchcraft.

When rumours of the Amulet of Black Beryl start to...

In the summer of 1820, Keats published this collection, his third and final volume of poetry. A few months earlier, he had...

Красочный атмосферный календарь содержит подробные данные о лунных днях и фазах и советы о том, как жить согласно лунному циклу....

Появление тревоги может застать нас врасплох в любое время и в любом месте: на утренней пробежке, когда вы едете на работу и даже...