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One of the few advantages that India has over England is a great Knowability. After five years' service a man is directly or...

Born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) discovered early in his literary career a fascination with...

Bless me! reader, gentle or simple, or whatever you be, how impatiently by this time must you expect this preface, supposing it...

Although Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was not only the brightest genius of his age and country, but a man of active life and open...

When Bathsheba Everdene inherits a farm from her uncle, no-one expects her to run it alone. But our spirited young heroine will...

Written around 1645, Miyamoto Musashi’s Five Rings is a classic Japanese work on mastery in swordsmanship, leadership and...

I have a gift. I see people as ghosts before they die.
Of course, it helps that I'm the one killing them.

The night after her...

Krasznahorkai's extraordinary first novel is back - and more devilish than ever.
In the darkening embers of a Communist utopia,...

80 years after its first publication, this is a brand new English translation, using Tove Jansson's revised story

Comet in...

An anthology of essays on video games by some of today's best literary writers

Whether you're an avid gamer, a Twitch...

Realising he and she are the very worst kind of people, a middle-aged man embarks on a dubious road trip through Switzerland with...

An entertaining collection of strange, delightful and unexpectedly apt words from the origins of English.

Old English is the...

Welcome to the delightful and fascinating world of Old English animals

'Invaluable - and hugely entertaining ... It is an...

Goldsmith... , Райтер...

Your hard work is paying off. You are doing well in your field. But there is something standing between you and the next level of...

A groundbreaking and controversial new theory about how we talk.
Like other tools, language was invented, can be reinvented or...

A revolutionary account of the origins of language from one of the world's best known and most influential linguists.
In his...

A unique journey through English spelling, untangling the fascinating origins of its greatest eccentricities.
Why is there an...

Acemoglu... , Robinson...

A provocative bestseller that explains why the world is divided into nations with wildly differing levels of prosperity.
Why are...

1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other...

The dazzling new bestseller from the author of The Appeal.

Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's...

Six Students. One Murder. Your Time Starts Now...

The mature students of Royal Hastings University's new art course have been...

Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth in an epic, far-future science fiction novel from an award-winning author.
The sun is...

From the title story's fantastical inter-dimensional assassins to the steampunk dystopia of "Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal...

One best friend's wedding. One predicted love match. And no way of guessing how the story will end...

Anna was never going to...

Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape...

A slow-burn romance fifteen years in the making...
Hattie has spent half her life secretly crushing on Freddie – her best friend...

Thirty years from now and the effects of climate change are overwhelming the planet – but so are the global efforts to combat...

The Sun is dying. Earth will perish too, consumed by the star in its final death throes. But rather than abandon their planet,...

'We're mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas...

Imagine a universe patrolled by numberless and nameless predators.

Imagine what might happen to any civilisation unwise enough...