Shakespeare's sonnets are lyrical, haunting, beautiful and often breath-taking, representing one of the finest bodies of poetry...

The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life.
How do...

One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock finds one of his captains waiting eagerly on his doorstep. He has sold...

There's a new killer on the streets...A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the...

With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was the greatest human...

M.R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a...

Doudna... , Sternberg...

Jennifer Doudna, the world-famous scientist behind CRISPR, 'one of the most monumental discoveries in biology' (New York Times),...

The original translation by Robert Chandler, updated and revised
The twentieth century War and Peace, a broad portrait of an...

Edgar Allan Рое was a writer of uncommon talent; in 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' he created the genre of detective fiction...

London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Seven wintry days to track the lives of seven characters: a hedge fund manager trying to...

From Deborah Moggach, bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, comes another hilarious and romantic comedy, this...

Buffy's bachelorhood is worrying until he meets Celeste, a young girl at the chemist's shop who appears to hold the prescription...

Summer 1970 - a long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside...

Six friends are determined to escape for a debauched weekend in the country

Blitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and...

This seductive and evocative epic tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. It reveals the cruelty and ugliness of life...

One of Maugham's rare experiments with form, the novel is a trio of stories that portrays a vivid spectrum of life in Edwardian...

Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays,...

A young woman is brutally murdered on a remote mountain road. A young construction worker, Yuichi, is on the run - but is he...

Издание полностью на английском языке.
A report of a rare and unusual gun - a type favoured by assassins - being smuggled into...

The definitive selection of Maugham's best short stories - gorgeously rejacketed in our new series style
"The modern writer who...

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Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris...

One by one the boys begin to fall...
In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their...

No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death...