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In the 1970s Shiva Naipaul travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. Through his experiences,...
A tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams played out against the lush, summer backdrop of the Massachusetts...
Jacob Flanders is a young man passing from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. From his boyhood on the windswept...
Virginia Woolf's delicate second novel is both a love story and a social comedy, yet it also subtly undermines these traditions,...
A party of English people are aboard the Euphrosyne, bound for South America. Among them is a young girl, Rachel Vinrace,...
A young and inexperienced sea captain finds that his first command leaves him with a ship stranded in tropical seas and a crew...
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...
With this novel Sharon Penman moves to a new set of characters and to 12th Century England and the early civil war between...
The sixth of nine volumes in the major Penguin History of Britain series, A Monarchy Transformed narrates the tempestuous...
The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and...
A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics...
Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old...
Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in...
An absorbing historical novel of power and betrayal, loyalty and political intrigue in thirteenth-century England, Wales and...
In Consciousness Explained, Daniel C. Dennett reveals the secrets of one of the last remaining mysteries of the universe: the...
McPherson recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War including the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas...
1752, the Liverpool Merchant sets sail from Merseydale. A slaver, she is bound for Africa to buy men and transport them in chains...
Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, The Pigeon is Patrick Suskind's tense, disturbing...
Who rose to enduring fame on Blood and Typewriters?
Who told the pregnant Portia of the Chambers it would come out in the...
The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search...
If you want to discover the captivating history of the French Revolution, this is the book for you . . .
Concise, convincing...
Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and...
Discover a chilling twentieth century classic, delving into the dark and complex heart of childhood
'Some people are coming...
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....
In 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish...
Vonnegut's riotous urban fairytale about the various fiascos of the Nixon years - a firm fan favourite
Walter J. Starbuck's...
Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped...
A party of English people board the Euphrosyne bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, young, innocent and wholly...
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