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Tim Lott's parents, Jack and Jean, met at the Empire Snooker Hall, Ealing, in 1951, in a world that to him now seems 'as strange...

"Occasionally, you and the team come within read of perfection, up there in the rarefied air of the skies. You never know when...

Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr; this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections...

Today, burnout and depression are at record levels, driven by a combination of intense workplace competition, the comparative...

More than any other writer Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years before...

Possibly the most colourful figure in the history of Western music, Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was certainly the most eloquent....

We're told that universities are our greatest driver of social mobility. But it's a lie.

The Inequality Machine is a damning...

The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics,...

'He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others'.
So Virginia Woolf described...

Lasting for six long years, the Blitz transformed life in the capital beyond recognition, marking a time of almost constant...

Benvenuto Cellini is an artist-craftsman, one of the greatest sculptors in the renaissance, passionately devoted to art, the...

The official behind-the-scenes companion to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, featuring cast and crew interviews, photos,...

Maugham's studies of the lives and masterpieces of ten great novelists are outstanding examples of literary criticism at its...

Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until...

The subjects of Salman Rushdie's collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death...

The finest and most enjoyable of Virginia Woolf's letters are brought together in a single volume. It is a marvellous collection...

When President Habyarimana’s jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing – which left up...

These letters cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years that gave birth to the Beat...

A hilarious collection of the many articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio. It includes selected...

In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles’ life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive...

A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre,...

An Englishman's home is his castle. But what if it's French?

One Place de L'Eglise is a thousand-year-old Languedoc ruin....

For better or worse. For richer or poorer. Till death us do part…
We've always done it, we're still doing it. Straight, queer,...

After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes...

In this non-fiction novel – road trip, confession, and erotic tour de force – Emmanuel Carrere pursues two consuming obsessions:...

Clark... , Clark...

Moro is the highly acclaimed home of bold, flavour-centered cooking using few ingredients, perfectly combined.

Trailblazing...

Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five unpublished pieces. Despite Quentin...

Will Ireland really reunite?
Throughout the century since partition the unification of the two parts of the island seemed...

'This book is a little bit about me and a little bit about you.'
Having an organisation business, you might think I have...

In Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel Garcia Marquez - winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years...