Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited 'faces'. The Italianistas. The scooter-riding, all-night-dancing instigators of what became, from its myriad sources, a very British phenomenon. Mod...
The heroes of John Pilger's narrative are the many ordinary people he has witnessed coping with their lives in difficult and often brutal conditions: dissidents in the Soviet Union; victims of...
The Arnolfini portrait, painted żeby Jan van Eyck in 1434, is one of the world's most famous paintings. This haunting gem of medieval art, a subtle and beautiful portrait of a wealthy Bruges...
From a highly decorated general, a brilliant new way of understanding war and its role in the twenty-first century.Drawing on his vast experience as a commander during the first Gulf War, and in...
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray comes a gripping, extraordinary portrait of love, silence, and secrets under a Spanish dictatorship....
A sex therapist and neuroscientist describes anhedonia, the inability to feel a satisfactory amount of pleasure--and provides the pathway back to fully enjoying sex, food, time with family and...
An American granddaughter embarks on a journey back through her family's Armenian history, uncovering a story of love, loss--and a wrenching secret that has been buried for generations.
'Don't you know a sand-fairy when you see one?' I dare say you have often thought about what you would do if you were granted three wishes. The five children - Cyril, Anthea, Robert,...
The sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Thousandth FloorNew York, 2118. Manhattan is home to a thousand-story supertower, a breathtaking marv
A master storyteller, sympathetically in touch with real children and their interests, has created characters who are accepted as friends żeby children everywhere, not to mention plots which are...
This title comes with an introduction aby Audrey Niffenegger. "Love" is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971. With surgical precision it charts the destructive...
El tercer libro en la serie de Dian Hanson sobre las partes eróticas del cuerpo explora cómo las piernas de la mujer se convirtieron en un tema central en la liberación femenina. Más de 400 fotos...
Gabriel Allon, art restorer and occasional spy, searches for a stolen masterpiece aby Caravaggio in #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva's latest action-packed tale of high stakes...
The heartbreaking story of Korea during the Second World War is brought to life in this gripping, redemptive debut about two sisters. 'Look for your sister a...
Filled with humor and pathos, the long-awaited new novel żeby the bestselling author of "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" tells a story about the political and personal costs of war, and of...
A brilliant, original history of the spice trade--and the appetites that fueled it. It was in search of the fabled Spice Islands and their cloves that Magellan charted the first circumnavigation of...
Questions that Sell reveals advanced questioning techniques that will help you sell your products or services based on value to the customer (rather than price) and increase your success rate as a...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD'Crushing...intensely vital' Observer'It's impossible to tear yourself away' The Times'Such brilliant writing...
Shel Silversteins best-selling classic THE GIVING TREE celebrates its 40th Anniversary with an outstanding book and audio cd edition featuring a reading of the story by Shel that showcases his...
Twelve years of marriage, three children, a husband, Henrik, with whom she no longer finds anything in common: Anna is at the end of her tether. Based upon film-maker, Ingmar Bergman's own...
There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran, is it possible that there is a secret one-hundredth name? In this tale of magic and mystery, of love and danger, Balthasar's ultimate quest is...
Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian community, thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But on the day his Indian...
A VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES ORIGINAL A literary event: Raymond Carver's complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the recently discovered "last" stories, found a decade after...