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

'The noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers ... ethically he is supreme' Bertrand Russell

Published shortly after...

'When Dickens has described something you see it for the rest of your life' George Orwell

In 1844, Charles Dickens took a...

Making her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the...

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

Blackman... , Gatehouse...

The Puffin Book of Stories for Five-year-olds edited by Wendy Cooling brings together stories perfectly suited for every...

Mr Majeika is the most magical teacher around!

As a rule, magic carpets don't turn up in schools, but this is exactly what...

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...

The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron Lady

In June 1983 Margaret...

English Food reveals the richness and surprising diversity of England's culinary heritage. Fully updated and revised by Jane...

'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...

Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in...

The definitive guide to mathematical problem solving, from one of the great teachers of the twentieth century

George Polya's...

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....

R... , Эме...

Originally written to entertain, move or chill, the eight short stories in this collection accompanied by parallel English...

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....

Following the bizarre accidental death of his wife, Israeli secret service agent Yoel Ravid retires to the suburbs with his...

A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and...

Unto Death contains two beautiful short novels linked by death and destruction.

Crusade is set in 1096 - a year of sinister...

As the Germans advance into Poland in 1939, Elisha Pomeranz, a Jewish mathematician and watchmaker, escapes into the wintry...