Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series - the Magic Tree House!§§IT'S SINK OR SWIM§§for Jack and Annie when the Magic Tree House whisks...
'Serrailler, Hill's brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer's crime fiction novels' CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALL'Beautifully told, Hill's gimlet...
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...
Foster's dramatic skill is well-known in London's West End theaters. So perhaps it wasn't so surprising when he was hired aby an American newspaper publisher to cover the trial of...
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...
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...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A whistle-blower. A witch hunt. A cover-up. Secret tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, and government corruption. Welcome to 1890s Paris. Alfred Dreyfus has been...
Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series-the Magic Tree House!§§Three... Two... One... BLAST OFF!§§The Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie...
The Arnolfini portrait, painted by 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...
A contemporary comedy of sexual manners from Howard Jacobson, author of }Peeping Tom{ and }Redback{. "How many of his contemporaries have described the male condition with such wry, unsparing...
Selected from the book Cider with Rosie żeby Laurie Lee VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. Also in the Vintage Minis series: Liberty aby Virginia Woolf Eating by Nigella Lawson...
In his customary pose as the grumpiest of grumpy old men, Raymond Briggs contemplates old age and death... And doesn't like them much. Illustrated with Briggs's inimitable pencil drawings,...
J.C. Masterman was chairman of the Double-Cross Committee at the height of World War Two. This is his account of the double agents, deception and counter-espionage which were key to the victory of...
"An insightful, tender and inspiring memoir that explores the emotional side of a doctor’s working life. ‘Brilliant, compelling… A hugely life-affirming book’ Mail on Sunday Grief. Anger. Joy....
A new collection of pieces by Raymond Carver, combining short fiction, essays, commentary on his own fiction and poetry, and writing on the work of esteemed contemporaries such as Richard...
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...
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...
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...
"The Essential Hemingway" brings together a wide selection of Hemingway's works, providing the perfect introduction to his extensive writing. The collection includes the full text of...
A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream-the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New...
From America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel. Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human...
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...
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...