Winner of the Whitbread First Novel AwardAgnes Day - sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire - has discovered disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world. Terminally...
Four victims, all young women, all tortured and then lobotomised. None of them able to tell the police the name of their attacker. None of them able to live normal lives again. Just broken dolls,...
The Book of Symbols combines original and incisive essays about particular symbols with representative images from all parts of the world and all eras of history. The highly readable texts and over...
A beautifully written and illustrated collection of Greek myths containing seventeen famous tales full of love, loss, greed, envy and bravery.Beautifully written aby Ann Turnbull and illustrated...
When eighteen-year-old Michael visits the Hanbury's remote family home he is captivated by their bohemian lifestyle. The chance to escape once more to his friend's country house comes as a...
Hunt, trek, and feast among Neanderthals in this stunning novel żeby the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Ben Okri.
La comida y el surrealismo son amantes perfectos: sexo y langostas, collage y canibalismo, el encuentro de un cisne y un cepillo de dientes en una pastelería. Las cenas opulentas que organizaban...
Mr. Charming "You say everybody wants to be Cary Grant? Even I want to be Cary Grant." Cary Grant He’s the most self-invented man in movies, this side of Charlie Chaplin. Like Chaplin, Cary...
Six days ago, a man blew himself up aby the side of a road in northern Wisconsin...The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero,...
Sartorial strength: Helmut Newton in the leading fashion magazinesHelmut Newton, master of late 20th-century fashion photography, always considered the printed page the most important factor to his...
Ralph Loman works in an unsatisfying job, for a free London newspaper, when Francine Snaith, a temporary secretary for a corporate finance firm, unexpectedly crosses his path at a party.
Phoenix aus der Asche§§Das wiederentdeckte Pompeji auf Lithografien des 19. Jahrhunderts§§Fausto und Felice Niccolini hatten sich zum Ziel gesetzt, alle Aspekte des Lebens in dieser antiken Stadt...
'I read a book one day, and my whole life was changed.' So begins The New Life, Orhan Pamuk's fabulous road novel about a young student who yearns for the life promised by a dangerously...
The true story of how Britain's maritime power helped gain this country unparalleled dominance of the world's economy, "Admirals" celebrates the rare talents of the men who shaped...
Divine forms: The heavenly grace and human grandeur of a supreme Renaissance master In art history, we tend to be on first name terms only with the most revered of masters. The Renaissance painter...
As a poet, Tartarsky is a failure. As a copywriter for one of Moscow's biggest advertising firms he makes $2,000 in ten minutes - and that's before the cocaine kicks in. But as Tartarsky...
A startling and tender novel about how to let yourself love and set yourself free aby Patrick Ness, the twice Carnegie Medal-winning author of A Monster Calls.
Sei es ein kulinarisches Abenteuer im pulsierenden Mexico City, eine meditative Zugfahrt durch Sibirien oder ein Solo-Trip nach Paris: Egal was auf Ihrer Wunschliste ganz oben steht - diese...