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One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking...

Out of his smoke-filled rooms in Baker Street stalks a figure to cause the criminal classes to quake in their boots and rush from...

Why do some countries succeed while others fail? What causes boom or bust? The World Trade Editor of the FT explains how the...

Rupert Isaacson's The Horse Boy is one family's epic journey to rescue their son.

Rupert and Kirstin Isaacson were heartbroken...

The Stone Gods is one of Jeanette Winterson's most imaginative novels -- an interplanetary love story; a traveller's tale; a hymn...

From his prison cell, Jasper Dean tells the unlikely story of his scheming father Martin, his crazy Uncle Terry and how the three...

The masterful second novel in Pat Barker's classic 'Regeneration' trilogy - from the Booker Prize-winning and Women's...

'There!' Pop said. 'There's the house. There's Gore Court for you. What about that, eh? How's that strike you? Better than St...

'I should like to go to France,' said Ma.

'God Almighty,' Pop said. 'What for?'

'For a holiday of course,' Ma said. 'I...

This landmark work challenges the separatist doctrines which have come to dominate our understanding of the world. Appiah revives...

Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at...

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and winner of the 2006 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, The History of Love by...

A hauntingly beautiful social history of the Thames Estuary, from the author of On Brick Lane.

Out at the eastern edge of...

A fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain.

The restoration of democracy...

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...

Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries...

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...

With its insightful portrayals of her protagonist's inner life, Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho was a hugely influential...

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