Every day, in every court and tribunal, advocates represent us all - Crown and defendant, landlord and tenant, rich and poor,...

The Quincunx is an epic Dickensian-like mystery novel set in 19th century England, and concerns the varying fortunes of young...

With this novel Sharon Penman moves to a new set of characters and to 12th Century England and the early civil war between...

The sixth of nine volumes in the major Penguin History of Britain series, A Monarchy Transformed narrates the tempestuous...

The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and...

A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics...

Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old...

Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in...

An absorbing historical novel of power and betrayal, loyalty and political intrigue in thirteenth-century England, Wales and...

In Consciousness Explained, Daniel C. Dennett reveals the secrets of one of the last remaining mysteries of the universe: the...

McPherson recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War including the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas...

1752, the Liverpool Merchant sets sail from Merseydale. A slaver, she is bound for Africa to buy men and transport them in chains...

Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, The Pigeon is Patrick Suskind's tense, disturbing...

Who rose to enduring fame on Blood and Typewriters?
Who told the pregnant Portia of the Chambers it would come out in the...

The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the French Revolution, this is the book for you . . .

Concise, convincing...

Penzoldt... , Ленц...

The eight stories in this volume offer a varied and representative collection of twentieth century German authors from a range of...

Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and...

Discover a chilling twentieth century classic, delving into the dark and complex heart of childhood

'Some people are coming...

S... , Vian Boris

These eight stories by leading 20th century French writers offer fascinating insights into French life and literature and are...

Billy Casper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say; part of the limbo generation of school leavers too old for lessons...

In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs....

R... , Эме...

Originally written to entertain, move or chill, the eight short stories in this collection accompanied by parallel English...

In 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish...

Boll... , Aichinger...

Much maligned in pre-war Germany, the short story enjoyed a creative rebirth in 1945. Initially imported by the Allies, the form...

Emily is happy with her life just as it is.

She loves her career as a midwife, and enjoys living on her own - but can't help...

The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby’s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In...

Braungart... , McDonough...

A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed by Patternity, the...

The first popular biography of Edward I in a generation by a major new historian.

This is the first major biography for a...

A Global Superstar
In the summer of 1980, ten years after the break-up of the Beatles, John Lennon signed with a new label,...