From our earliest childhood experiences, we learn to see the world as contested space: a battleground between received ideas, entrenched conventions and myriad Authorised Versions on the one hand, and new discoveries, terrible dangers, and everyday…
Fitzrovia lies between Oxford Street and Euston Road, bordered by Portland Place, Gower Street and Tottenham Court Road. This is a portrait of a mysteriously evocative area of London, creative hub for the avant garde, as well as a meeting place for…
Thirteen Australian package tourists set off around the world on the holiday of a lifetime. Homesickness is an enchanting novel: a wry, witty look at the ways people interact, a catalogue of comic digressions and tantalising information in which the…
A collection of four stories comprising ` Under The Garden' (A short novel); `A Visit to the Morin'; Dream of a Strange Land' and `A Discovery in the Woods'. In these four stories Graham Greene, one of the master of modern English fiction, has allow…
In 1914 they had been eleven years old; Fifty years later, Dinah, beautiful as ever, advertises in the national newspapers to find the other two - Clare, now established with a successful business, and Sheila, a married woman, glossy, chic and corre…
Thomas Wavery is the new Consul General at Abyla on the tip of North Africa. A career diplomat, Wavery was once a high flyer, but an affair with a younger woman has dashed his dreams of ambassadorship. He arrives in Abyla with his wife suing for div…
Pat Coyne is a Dublin policeman passionately devoted to sorting out the world. His principal mission is to deal with crime, Ireland's biggest growth industry. Though only a cop on the beat, he decides to take on the notorious gang leader, Drummer Cu…
This text looks at the way the war in Kosovo was fought. Kosovo was a virtual war, fought by pilots at 15,000 feet, commanded by Generals whose only view of the battle was through their pilot's bombing sights, and reported by opposing media with com…
In Go Big, he shows that a different world is entirely possible and how to get there by combining the best and most ambitious of these solutions - on a large scale. We stand at one of those rare moments in history when people everywhere want big cha…
*WINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2018*My younger brother's name is Nicholas Beard.
This novel is the revenge of Lolita. It retells Nobokov's story in the half-innocent, half-sly voice of the nymphet herself. Or rather a late 1990s version of her - sassy, worryingly precocious, sexy Lucky Linderhof, who is at a juvenile detention c…
Christopher Isherwood settled in California in 1939 and spent the war years writing for Hollywood, but by 1945 he had all but ceased to write fiction and even abandoned his habit of keeping a diary. Looking back from the 1970s, Isherwood recreated t…
*A Financial Times Book of the Year 2018**The New York Times Bestseller*`I took to New York life like a star shooting through the heavens...' Bill Cunningham's first love was fashion but the big city came a close second.
It is still a man's world in the Indian town of Malgudi, where Savitri has submissively endured more than her fair share of humiliations in a long-standing marriage. When her husband insists on employing an elegant female in his company, however, Sa…
Kauffmann follows in the footsteps of the 18th century sailor Yves-Joseph Kerguelen, who gave his name to the archipelago he discovered in the Indian Ocean. When he made his discovery, Kerguelen was convinced he had found Hell.
A charming and clever account of one woman's exploration of love, language and identity. Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English.
In eleven landmark operations, Thomas Morris tells us stories of triumph, reckless bravery, swaggering arrogance, jealousy and rivalry, and incredible ingenuity, from the trail-blazing 'blue baby' procedure to the first human heart transplant.
After a troubled upbringing that saw the early death of her mother from cancer, Sarah Gabriel had created a happy home life with her partner and two beautiful daughters.
Chandran is a good-natured, popular, rather dreamy student who works hard to pass his exams. Not all is well in Chandran's horoscope and while some customs can be forgotten, others must be strictly observed: customs that temporarily cause Chandran t…
The story of the psychological duel between an American investigator and Mellie, following the murder of a stranger who had also raped her.
Robin Davies knows how to look after number one. As Robin stumbles through his rites of passage to adulthood, involving rebellion, self-discovery, sex, war, seduction and the threat of commitment, we come to realise just how far he will go to have h…
Psychologist Peter Kristal has a method for sorting out people's lives. His technique gains him a modicum of success: a thriving practice in Chicago with a client list of thriving stars. But by concentrating on his rival Richard he is blind to the o…
Reminds you of what you were taught about women in history lessons at school, which is to say, not a lot. This book of cartoons reveals some of our greatest thinkers' baffling theories about women. It states that even Charles Darwin believed that wo…
HOW DO YOU SOLVE YOUR OWN MURDER? But Alex soon begins to suspect that the accident that put him here wasn't really an accident. As he goes over a series of clues from his past, Alex must use his remaining senses to solve the mystery of who tried to…
The autobiography of conductor Sir Georg Solti, published to coincide with his 85th birthday, charting his life in Hungary, Switzerland, Germany, England and America; and his collaboration with the great singers and musicians of our time including h…
Whilst previous accounts of Kew have relied almost entirely on printed sources, the present volume makes extensive use of archives which support modern Kew's primary objective: "the better management of the Earth's environment by increasing knowledg…
McBride is having a tough time. The last expert in the ancient art of pearl fishing, he's on a quest to track down the pearl that will complete a necklace for his wife, Elspeth, convinced that the love token will save their marriage.
Roberto Cassada is the latest arrival in a complacent Air Force squadron in Cold War Germany. His Puerto Rican birth and unabashed ambition alienate him from the tightly-knit group of men he joins. He struggles to prove his superiority as a pilot on…
Lorraine Kelly's Real Life Solutions For Real People reveals Lorraine's personal views about how best to achieve the elusive balance between realising personal ambitions and maintaining personal and professional relationships.
When a girl is found dead with a signed copy of Rudian Stefa's latest book in her possession, the author finds himself summoned for an interview by the Party Committee.
In a small mining village in German-occupied Poland, young Gracian Sofka breaks curfew to journey to the forest to gaze at the stars. Soon the German army will be on the French Atlantic coast and Gracian's elder brother will be dead. This tale follo…
Concerned with transformations and dislocations - both physical and emotional - the poems in James Lasdun's second collection speak exquisitely of desire and loss. Jetlagged, estranged, out of synch or out of kilter, the figures in these poems somet…
Teasing out the extraordinary within the everyday, FALSE PRETENCES is a contemporary novel in mosiac. Through the separate yet interlinked stories, it traces the lives of two women as they deal with the complexities of love, private terrors, violenc…
Psychologist, teacher and therapist, John Selby, shows how the non-stop chatter of our minds and our own fear-based thoughts so easily catch us up in negative, destructive mindsets such as irritation, worry, impatience, guilt, inadequacy, hostility,…
Benjamin Malaussene and family are far from happy when his fortune teller younger sister Therese marries the aristocratic Count Marie-Colbert de Roberval at a televised wedding - a ceremony from which Marie-Colbert has unceremoniously banned the mad…
From question to massacre to genocide, the story of the Armenians from the dying days of the ottoman empire and the early years of modern Turkey is one of shocking and tragic modernity - the first genocide of a century of genocides.
Includes poems which takes into a world riven by violence and betrayal, between nations and individuals.
Evoking the era of the beat generation, this biography details the life of William S. Burroughs, controversial author of "The Naked Lunch", "Junkie" and other underground classics.
Scarborough, 1934. John Fastolf, rakish heir to a Dukedom, has sponsored a glamorous tunny fishing contest. He has his reasons. The young journalist Martha Gellhorn is covering the event for the London gossip papers. She has hers.
Demonstrates how history is altered by individuals, and how personal identities shift when governments change. In this book, the author takes us on a journey into the heart of extraordinarily diverse experiences via intimate, deeply moving stories t…
The poet George Barker was convinced that his biography could never be written. writers such as Dylan Thomas, Walter de la Mare and Elizabeth Smart, whose By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept hymns their liaison;
'Like the wonderful Anne Tyler, Hemmings writes witty, immersive, immensely readable and deeply humane fiction about entirely believable characters' Metro Sarah St. John is reeling. And then there's Cully's father, whose sudden re-emergence in Sarah…
Robert Conquest's The Great Terror is the book that revealed the horrors of Stalin's regime to the West.
'A Guide to Berlin' is the name of a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925, when he was a young man of 26, living in Berlin. A group of six international travellers, two Italians, two Japanese, an American and an Australian, meet in empty…
There were ten of them in the dining club, and Daniel was thrilled to have recruited Lucidio to cook their monthly dinner. But the ten gourmets quickly became nine when Abel succumbed after a second helping of beef bourguignon. Thereafter, trips to…
The sleeping giant of India is beginning to stir to the dwelling reverberations which herald the great struggle for independence. For like his family and friends, Swami has been immutably moulded by his British rulers - and though he might happily d…
