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In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and...

India, 1855. The British rule, and all across the country, Indian magic is being stamped out.

More terrifying still, people...

An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his...

The Italian colour bible: a gorgeously illustrated exploration of colour and the modern gaze, from an award-winning...

September, 1941: Mary arrives in war-torn London nursing a broken heart and a painful secret.

When she is offered her dream...

To me, writing was pure pleasure. It thrilled me to be able to escape the horrors of my daily life in such a simple way. When I...

In November 1955, Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran's most celebrated tar players, is in search of a new instrument. His beloved tar...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's...

'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of...

A vivid, believable love story between an older woman and a younger man.

Lea de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan...

'We read in order to come to life.'
With fierce imagination, a woman revisits the moments that shape her life; from crushes on...

One year ago, Alex Towne's body was found.
One month ago, his mother saw him on the street.
One week ago, David Raker agreed to...

In the black of night, a woman lands on the fields of Occupied France. Charlotte Grey is on a mission for the British government...

He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years on...

Lola has a cold and is feeling really ever so not well. So her big brother, Charlie, thinks of all sorts of ideas to try to cheer...

Gratton... , Ireland...

An assassin, a soldier, a prince . . . and a deadly game of power, where no one knows the rules. Prepare to enter the world of...

1431 is a dangerous time for a woman to be defiant.

England has been fighting France for 100 years. At home, power-hungry men...

Cassandra Darke is an art dealer, mean, selfish, solitary by nature, living in Chelsea in a house worth ?7 million.

She has...

Carrie Soto is the greatest player the world has ever seen.

But six years after her last match, she watches a young British...

"'Carpe Jugulum,' read Agnes aloud. 'That's . . . well, Carpe Diem is Seize the Day, so this means -'
'Go for the throat . . .'"...

The Discworld is very much like our own – if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants...

Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder...

A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia.

They call...

In Candide, Voltaire threw down an audacious challenge to the philosophical views of the Enlightenment to create one of the most...

The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment as in no other period and the crowning achievement of that caustic,...

Why is blood red? Why are carrots orange? Who invented the lightbulb? Why is the world 'going green'? Is the sky really blue? And...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's...

Barker... , Edworthy...

Rewind to 1971, and Sue Barker's coach is sending his 15-year-old tennis protegee to a junior championship in France, alone, with...

Bob Bloomfield is, in the words of his best friend's wife, a 'selfish, arrogant a sehole', who hasn't spent a great deal of time...

An apparent suicide. A deepening mystery. A letter from a dead man...


Secret agent George Smiley is in trouble. A Foreign...