The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles is art critic Martin Gayford's account of the tumultuous...

In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another...

A fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain.

The restoration of democracy...

Art restorer Gabriel Allon is trying to put his secret service past behind him. But when his friend Benjamin Stern is murdered in...

The true story of one boy's courage in the midst of one of the world's most violent conflicts

At the heart of this...

Paris, 1937. Andras Levi, an architecture student, has arrived from Budapest with a scholarship, a single suitcase, and a...

Finland, 1902, and the Russian Empire enforces a brutal policy to destroy Finland's freedom and force its people into...

Words of joy, love, devotion and celebration

Deciding how to express your feelings on one of the most important days of your...

London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's exceptional voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city

Encircling London...

The Book of Dave is Booker-shortlisted author Will Self's dazzling sixth novel

What if a demented London cabbie called Dave...

Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with...

Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair's foray into one of London's most fascinating boroughs

Hackney, That Rose-Red...

The huge bestseller from the author of The Family Upstairs and The Girls - a love story for anyone who adored One Day in December...

The first publication of Kurt Cobain's diaries, which were found after his death in 1994. Genuinely moving, provocative and...

Mankind's battle to stay alive is the greatest of all subjects. This brief, witty and unusual book by Britain's greatest medical...

A book to read and reread, this reissue brings back to print an unforgettable romance and a timeless masterpiece.

Abandoned...

Wild describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire. It...

If a man supports Arsenal one day and Spurs the next then he is fickle but not necessarily illogical. From this starting point,...

A brand new edition, the twelfth, of the essential reference book for all crossword addicts. The words are arranged within seven...

This invaluable reference work provides an account of the development of African society from 175 million years ago, through the...

One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the...

In the first century BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these...

Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese...

Tom Holland's 'stirring new translation' (Telegraph) of Herodotus' Histories, one of the great books in Western history - now in...

Written between 1143 and 1153 by the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, The Alexiad is one of the most popular and...

Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to...

A superb new translation by Judson Rosengrant of Tolstoy's semi-autobiographical trilogy

Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy,...

Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy - a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service,...

Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character,...

In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named...