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Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he...

This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from...

It was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war . . .

This is the story of a home...

Our early years at home are when we lay down the blueprint for being a partner, parent, sibling, friend, colleague, neighbour,...

Discover the daring life story and astonishing adventures of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - Britain's greatest-ever pilot

Small...

Now adapted as the Netflix documentary Skandal!, this is the stranger-than-fiction story of Wirecard, once a $30 billion tech...

'For personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the...

Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a...

A brilliant companion piece to Wide Sargasso Sea, this is Jean Rhys's beautifully written, bitter-sweet autobiography, covering...

Since its foundation in 1948, the NHS has come to define our national identity; it even topped the "what makes Britain great"...

'Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed. Less often they are...

Whether it's for ourselves, to show love for a child, friend or partner, or to celebrate a rite of passage, there is no denying...

Much of George Orwell's best writing, brought together in this collection, is concerned with his complex, often contradictory...

Everybody thinks they know what sheep are like: they're stupid, noisy, cowardly ('lambs to the slaughter'), and they're...

In her bestselling follow-up to Grief Works and This Too Shall Pass, much-loved psychotherapist Julia Samuel invites us into her...

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

March 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany. Victory is at last within their grasp. But if...

From the great cities of Europe to the jungles of Burma, and from the deserts of North Africa to the remote islands of the South...

Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbuckler, poet, self-made gentleman, bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the...

My Happy Days in Hell (1962) is Gyorgy Faludy's grimly beautiful autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and oppression....

Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an...

In the third volume of his acclaimed examination of sexuality in modern Western society, Foucault investigates the Golden Age of...

The second volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changing nature of desire explores how sexuality was perceived...

Dear Reader,

Checking into a mental clinic wasn't exactly on my radar in 2022. Writing about it wasn't either. But here we...

With such varied correspondents as T. S. Eliot, Stephen Spender and Anthony Powell, for nearly forty years George Orwell wrote...

The final major work by one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century

In the fourth and final volume of his...

Over the past forty years, Mark Ellison has worked on some of the most beautiful homes you've never seen, specializing in...

Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think...

An 'autobiographical collage' of speeches, stories and essays, in Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything...

If you are reading this, it's likely you already have some affinity with humanism, even if you don't think of yourself in those...