Fat Phil can't lose at dice, even when his friends turn nasty and he's trying his hardest; a salesman finds success comes from fortune cookie mottoes, but panics when these mottoes turn...
Edward Venn-Thomas, recently arrived from the 20th century, finds life among the New Cretans rather dull. Their idyllic existence lacks one important thing - evil. So Venn-Thomas sees it as his...
This is the book everyone has been waiting for: national heroes Ant and Dec, Britain's most successful television duo, have invited their millions of fans into their world. The pair met when...
"The Other Crowd," "The Good People," "The Wee Folk," and "Them" are a few of the names given to the fairies aby the people of Ireland. Honored for their gifts and...
When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy an unpublished dream book'. Inspired by visions he has experienced for...
A portrayal of the sensitive, sexually confused and socially awkward writer based on information gained from the original Danish sources. 16pp b/w illus.
This book contains 'The Table, the Donkey and the Stick', 'The Princeand the Servants,''The Glass Box,''The Fisherman and the Giant,' and'The White Birds.'
A novel following the fate of Arbella Stuart, niece to Mary, Queen of Scots and presumed successor to Elizabeth I. Can she escape Hardwick Hall aby putting her trust in a young poet? From the...
The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing "Phoenician Women", "Bacchae", "Iphigenia at Aulis", "Orestes",...
'Wonderful' The New York TimesCharlie, a jobbing young English actress, is accustomed to playing different roles. But when the mysterious, battle-scarred Joseph recruits her into the...
Edited by the bestselling author of Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis, "Panic! The Story of Modern Financial Insanity" gives us a completely new insight into how markets really operate - and...
'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker_________________________In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and...
'Fascinating, full of original material and shrewd insights... A masterful historian of air power' Leo McKinstry, Literary ReviewThe RAF was the world's first air force. This is the...
In "The Picture of Dorian Gray," Wilde's full-length novel, a fashionable young man sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Also included in the volume are three of the Irish...
Paul Theroux invites us to join him on one of his most exotic and tantalizing adventures exploring the coasts and blue lagoons of the Pacific Islands, and taking up residence to discover the...
Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released archival material, Donald Rayfield gives us a fuller and more colourful...
From Wall Street Journal columnist Spencer Jakab, the real story of the GameStop squeeze - and the surprising winners of a rigged game. 'Jakab adeptly skewers the popular but dangerously wrong...
This unflinching portrayal of the squalor and brutality of New York life produced a scandal when it was published in 1893. Crane's novel tells the story of Maggie Johnson, a young woman who,...
'Exhilarating... A work of scholarship, but also inspiration... Go and read Jablonka and change the world' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An unexpected bestseller in France... It has...
A frank and frequently shocking French romp, featuring an idealistic cavalier, a charming mistress, and an adventurous cross-dressing young woman who woos them both.
Here is Richard McGuire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same name. Richard McGuire's groundbreaking comic strip Here was published under Art...
The New York Times bestselling author of the seductive Mackenzies series once again sweeps readers away with two Mackenzies novellas together for the first time. The Untamed Mackenzie When Lady...