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...

Facts alone are wanted in life: the children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay...

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...

Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story is...

Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests...

Discover Sherlock Holmes's most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked strangers, ingenious...

The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley...

Weird, withdrawn, and unloved, Fred is a young collector of butterflies. One day his eye alights on a beautiful stranger, the art...

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

From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children, which was awarded the Best of the Booker Prize in 1993, comes an...

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...

'The mind is a time machine that travels backwards in memory and forwards in prophecy, but he has done with prophecy now...'...

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...

Издание полностью на английском языке.
Before the Golden Age of magazines drew to a close half a century ago, a young PR man at...

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...

Jake, clever and lazy, makes a living out of writing translations and sponging off his friends. When he is kicked out of his...

Издание полностью на английском языке.
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...

Look at the Birdie evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town...

Drawing on the author's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, this title takes place in Kiev, 1918,...

Solzhenitsyn's celebrated novel describes the lives of people in the Soviet Union under Stalin who were condemned on health...