Lifting the Veil is a bold and irreverent collection of writing from India's most controversial feminist writer. These stories...

This is Mark Twain's description of life on the Mississippi River, with observations and anecdotes about the culture and society...

Agee James, Evans...

In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignement for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in...

The residents of Churchwood have never needed their bookshop, or its community, more. But when the bookshop comes under threat at...

Weathering critical scorn, Lady Audley's Secret quickly established Mary Elizabeth Braddon as the leading light of Victorian...

King John - today remembered as the villainous opponent of Robin Hood and the Magna Carta - was for Shakespeare and his audience...

In July 1914, Franz Kafka's fiancee Felice broke off their engagement in a humiliating public tribunal, surrounded by her friends...

A gruesome curse. A city in upheaval. A monster with unquenchable appetites.
Marlinchen and her sisters are the last true...

An enormous escaped rhinoceros from London Zoo has eaten James's parents. And it gets worse! James is packed off to live with his...

A young woman, Dr Graciela Saddiq, arrives to work at a zoo in a city soon to be at war.

Of all the animals, she is...

Shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and published here as a Penguin Essential for the...

Hayes's masterpiece is an exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair set in noirish, 1950s New York.

In a Manhattan bar, a...

Whether he's initiating a coup d'etat against new regulations with the residents, or forging a bond with the 98-year old who once...

The Mona Lisa has hung in the Louvre for over two-hundred years. She has watched alone in silence as millions of people have...

An extraordinary selection of the letters of Che Guevara

'Always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against...

They killed Number One in Malaysia.
Number Two in England.
And Number Three in Kenya.

John Smith is not your average...

This book is a self-help book. Its objective, as it says on the cover, is to show you how to get filthy rich in rising Asia. And...

It's 1936, war is brewing, tempers are running high, and by his thirteenth birthday, Sheldon Horowitz has been orphaned - twice....

I'm Johanna Morrigan. It's 1995. I'm nineteen and I live in the epicentre of Britpop. Parklife!

My unrequited love, John Kite,...

An inspiring memoir of finding strength and resilience from the former England Lioness.

From the football cages of East London...

'We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the...

Quirky, charming and suffused the footloose spirit of the sixties, this is the irresistible story of an English woman who decides...

The moving and heartwarming story of one woman trying to make it on her own, from the bestselling author of The Open Door

Kate...

William Shakespeare's Henry VIII is a compelling history play, recreating a crucial moment in the Tudor dynasty, and the events...

The second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses, Henry VI Part Two is...

The culminating drama of the Wars of the Roses, Henry VI Part Three plays out the final breakdown of political and family...

The first of Shakespeare's four plays about the Wars of the Roses, dramatizing the rivalry between power-hungry noble houses,...

The old king Henry IV, sick and weary, must send out his forces - including the unruly Falstaff - to meet another rebellion that...

'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything...

Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationship with the younger generation: fiercely independent...