One of our foremost commentators examines the work of a broad range of English, Irish, and American poets. Helen Vendler's essays, book reviews, and occasional prose from the past two decades,...
Alan Sugar was born in 1947 and brought up on a council estate in Clapton, in Hackney. As a kid he watched his dad struggle to support the family, never knowning from one week to the next if...
Cats and books are the purrfect pair! This charming journal illustrated żeby Jane Mount is packed with cats from bookstores around the world on every page, from Emma & Ender to Tiny the Usurper.
Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (c.519-438 BC) was "by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration" in Quintilian's view; Horace judged him "sure to win Apollo's...
Colorful and curious. Experimental and improvisational. Each of Herve Tullet's creations, whether the bestselling children's book PRESS HERE or the internationally traveling Ideal...
Can peanuts give you super strength? Were unicorns discovered on the moon? Did Martians really invade New Jersey? For anyone who has ever encountered outrageous stories like these and wondered...
Brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty insist they were commanded to kill aby God. In Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer's investigation is a meticulously researched, bone-chilling narrative of...
This book reveals what life was really like in the ancient world. The emergence of Christianity in the West and Christian morality with its emphasis on abstinence, celibacy and austerity is...
A comprehensive history of world philosophy, this book is also a social history of global intellectual life. Eschewing polemics, it presents a sophisticated view of the multiple cultures of world...
A ghostly, gothic love story that opens as the animals of the natural history museum are evacuated to a sinister country house during the war - perfect for fans of Sarah Waters, Stacey Hall, and...
"The Philosophy of Childhood" is an account of children's philosophical potential and of childhood as an area of philosophical inquiry. Seeking a philosophy that represents the range...
He claimed he couldn't talk about his work, but Samuel Beckett proves remarkably forthcoming in this text, which documents the 30-year working relationship between the playwright and Alan...
Lark Rise to Candleford captures a piece of social history in this every popular fictional account of an English rural upbringing between the wars. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a...
Marnie appears to be charming and efficient. A true professional. But inwardly she is unscrupulous, a rebel against society and the law. When she starts working for a small family firm, two of the...
In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood...
Imagine each family as a kind of little factory a multiperson unit producing meals, health, skills, children, and self-esteem from market goods and the time, skills, and knowledge of its members....
A brand-new Winnie-the-Pooh story, featuring the best-loved characters from the Hundred Acre Wood. Whatever we do, there's always two, there's Winnie-the-Pooh plus Me. And Pooh said,...