This is the brand new edition of Paul Harris' very popular Improve Your Sight-Reading Piano series The covers now contain US levels Now more than ever, the ability to sight-read fluently is an...
For con man Rodrick and his talking sword Hrym, life is all about taking what you can and getting away clean. But when the pair are arrested, their only hope lies in a secret government program in...
P. D. James brings a lifetime of reading and writing crime fiction to bear on this personal history of the genre, from the birth of the detective story, through Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, to...
An ordered retrospective of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, which spans six decades and draws on twelve collections. The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, Walcott is a key...
To the authorities in pursuit of him, Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer. But to his fellow Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism,...
Die verlorenen Splitter des Herzens der MondköniginNiemals trüben Wolken den Blick auf das Firmament des Landes Havendor. Der Mond leuchtet stets rund vom Himmelszelt und die Sterne flüstern sich...
World War II is finally over, and after four tortuous years serving the Crown in Egypt, Lawerence Durrell seeks peace in the landscapes he has loved since growing up in Corfu: ancient Mediterranean...
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola's second novel, was first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the...
1919 saw the publication of two major polemical works: The Economic Consequences of the Peace aby John Maynard Keynes and Democratic Ideals and Reality żeby Halford J. Mackinder. The former is...
Whether describing the tensions of an arranged marriage, the trauma of having an alcoholic mother, or the petty corruption of an Indian neighbourhood, Akhil Sharma's stories always expose the...
Learn to use your most precious commodity--time--to truly live.Arnold Bennett's classic book, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, has been changing the way people use and consider their time since...
George Sherston develops from a shy and awkward child, through shiftless adolescence, to an officer just beginning to understand the horrors of trench warfare. The world he grows up in, of village...
Falling in love is one of the strangest things we can do - and one of the things that makes us uniquely human. But what happens to our brains when our eyes meet across a crowded room? Why do we...
Six plays by Ted Hughes, which are particularly suitable for performance by children. Four were originally published under the title, }The Coming of the Kings and Other Plays{, and }Orpheus{ and...
Metallica have sold in excess of 100 million albums and won seven Grammys. Their journey from scuzzy Los Angeles garages to the stages of the world's biggest stadia has been an epic and often...
Plays One: "Total Eclipse""The Philanthropist""Savages""Treats" With an introduction by the author, this first collection of Christopher Hampton's work includes...
The "War of the End of the World" is one of the great modern historical novels. Inspired żeby a real episode in Brazilian history, Mario Vargas Llosa tells the story of an apocalyptic...