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A rugby-mad boy. A huge game. And a chance for an epic win . . . or an epic fail!
Gordon D'Arcy is an ordinary boy, but he's...
I felt like I was living in a world teetering on the brink ...
Life as a stay-in-bed husband turned out to be a lot more...
In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The thirty-three-year-old...
How well do you know the life of one of Britain's great maritime heroes?
Discover the truth behind a man who remains a...
Ed is having a hard time - at work, in his love life and, well, generally. Then he meets an unlikely Buddhist - who drinks and...
From the saviour of the realm to the subject of multiple attempted assassinations in the space of six years. King Henry IV's...
The Art of Angling offers a bountiful catch of poems from around the world and through the ages on every aspect of the popular...
A celebration of fathers and fatherhood, this anthology features the richly varied voices of sons and daughters, and of fathers...
Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of...
Philip Hensher’s selection of stories reflects the ‘desperate modernity’ of Berlin as it make and remakes itself over a period of...
The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers an array of dazzling...
The stories collected here--including such gems as Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," O. Henry's "The Marry Month...
In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents...
In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores and...
These autobiographical stories about growing up in small-town Pennsylvania are among John Updike’s best, and were the closest to...
Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the...
Horse Stories corrals two centuries of short fiction about the most majestic of domesticated animals. From writers old and new...
Stories of Motherhood gathers together more than a century of short fiction from a wide variety of authors in a literary...
As Scheherazade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence...
If every fiction is at heart a mystery, then the detective story is fiction distilled to its purest essence, combining the...
These eighteen classic stories from across John Updike’s career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage...
Love Stories brings together a captivating assortment of short stories inspired by romantic entanglement in its many forms: first...
At the end of the Great War, Andreas Pum has lost a leg but at least he has a medal and a barrel-organ which he plays on the...
Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the...
During his most productive decade, the 1880s, Maupassant wrote more than 300 stories, including ‘Boule de Suif’, ‘The Necklace’,...
Set in the early twentieth century, Independent People, by Nobel Prize-winning author Halldor Laxness, recalls both Iceland's...
'America was never innocent.'
Thus begins the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. It's James Ellroy's pop history of the 1960s, his...
An unjustly neglected classic, this sweeping 1904 novel is a Modernist masterpiece and arguably 'the great Danish novel' – but is...
Humboldt (1769–1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His life was packed with adventure and...
In 1914 Paul Baumer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form-master. On a...
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