Whilst it could be said that most educated folk understand the general science that landed men on the Moon in the latter part of the 20th Century it is sad that the very same people fail to underst...
Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police ...
'But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction - what has that got to do with a room of one's own?'A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had be...
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened...
Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family, especially his grandfather Berl, originated: Krakowiec (Krah...
Exquisite . . . A genuine, melancholy masterpiece' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A journalistic marvel' JAMES MEEK'A powerful, unforgettable book' NADIFA MOHAMMEDThis is the story of a ...
Two hearts. One love story. An ending you will never forget . . .Rune Kristiansen and Poppy Litchfield met as children and swore to be friends forever.As teenagers, their fr...
Advocating love as strength and non-violence as the most powerful weapon there is, these sermons and writings from the heart of the civil rights movement show Martin Luther King's rhetorical power ...
Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man, set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York.Eddie Carbon...
After journeying across the stars, a man from Earth finds himself lost among the scarlet deserts, black cliffs and semi-sentient oceans of Tormance, a world lit by the star Arcturus. Pulled northwa...
A Wake at Last is the fourth play from J. S. Wright's ever-imaginative pen.
Best described as a dark comedy of bad manners, it is a two act play with only one scene: the lounge of Tom's dishevell...
Late summer, 1963.Fresh from London and a recent cookery course, Alexandra has always loved a challenge.Which is why she now finds herself standing outside an imposing chate...
Where better to start again than New York?Iris arrives in the city of dreams, intent on restarting her culinary career, and leaving her recent heartache behind.Wandering the...
This book discusses how loneliness, sadness, grief and even suicidality are not signs of "unforgivable sins" but more often are symptoms of a treatable clinical depression. And "sins that cry out ...
'How cool was Will Freeman?'Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a grea...
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Three couples. One therapist's couch ...Alice and Niall used to be lovers, best friends and parents, in that order. Now they're no longer on the same page or even reading from the same ...
A belter of a thriller' THE TIMES'A master storyteller . . . an important book for our particular historical moment' OBSERVER'His best since Fatherland' SUNDAY TIMES'From wh...
Travel back in time to a world at war, with the first book in a thrilling new children's history series'It was two-thirty in the morning. Darkness hung over the coast of France...'
AFK features twelve texts about eleven artists and an artist duo: Rosa Menkman, Jon Rafman, Gazira Babeli, Martin Kohout, Maurizio Cattelan, Enrico Boccioletti, Constant Dullaart, Jill Magid, Aram ...