Combining frontline investigation with startling new data, Tristram Stuart's "Waste" shows how the way we live now has created a global food crisis - and what we can do to fix it. With...
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 by putting her trust in a young poet? From the author...
'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...
An authoritative exploration of Christ that takes a fresh approach to his life and gives equal voice to both the New Testament and early Jewish writing. Describing him, not as a man who believed...
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...
Die gegenwärtigen Umweltprobleme sind lösbar, wenn wir das Verständnis über die Auswirkungen unseres Konsums schärfen und entschieden gegensteuern. Dazu müssen wir ökologische Intelligenz...
"The Other Crowd," "The Good People," "The Wee Folk," and "Them" are a few of the names given to the fairies żeby the people of Ireland. Honored for their gifts and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
'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...
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...
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...
'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...
'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...
This title is winner of the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize. "Sean McMeekin has written a classic of First World War history...This superb and original book is the reality behind Greenmantle"....
The ever-popular novelist and story-teller Robert Graves wrote fascinating and durable stories, here collected together in a single volume for the first time żeby the poet's daughter Lucia Graves.