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Paris, 1937. Andras Levi, an architecture student, has arrived from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a...

Words of joy, love, devotion and celebration

Deciding how to express your feelings on one of the most important days of your...

London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's exceptional voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city

Encircling London...

The Book of Dave is Booker-shortlisted author Will Self's dazzling sixth novel

What if a demented London cabbie called Dave...

Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair's foray into one of London's most fascinating boroughs

Hackney, That Rose-Red...

A book to read and reread, this reissue brings back to print an unforgettable romance and a timeless masterpiece.
Abandoned...

Wild describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire. It...

Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese...

Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to...

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and...

The Ladies' Delight is the glittering Paris department store run by Octave Mouret. He has used charm and drive to become director...

Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial today...

'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding'

Dickens's story of...

One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological...

Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations Books I-III laid the foundations of...

An electrifying modern classic - Kneale's sweeping adventure story vividly brings a past age to life

In 1857 when Captain...

Daniel C. Dennett's Freedom Evolves tackles the most important question of human existence - is there really such a thing as free...

Pugin was one of Britain’s greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in...

'A reference bible... inspirational in the way that it opens up new possibilities for vegetables' - Daily Mail Jane Grigson's...

When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter...

Every day, in every court and tribunal, advocates represent us all - Crown and defendant, landlord and tenant, rich and poor,...

The Quincunx is an epic Dickensian-like mystery novel set in 19th century England, and concerns the varying fortunes of young...

In Consciousness Explained, Daniel C. Dennett reveals the secrets of one of the last remaining mysteries of the universe: the...

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....

Boll... , Aichinger...

Much maligned in pre-war Germany, the short story enjoyed a creative rebirth in 1945. Initially imported by the Allies, the form...

Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped...

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...

Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything.

The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception....