Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a.44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to...
My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights and freedoms in an...
'Extraordinary' Philip PullmanFollowing one man's journey from earth to an alien landscape of ethereal beauty and existential terror, A Voyage to Arcturus is a profound questioning of...
One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his prose, poetry, political acumen and oratorical skills. Among the most...
Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The Later Roman Empire chronicles a period of twenty-five years during...
Shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize, Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal is a darkly compelling novel that explores the taboo subject of pupil/teacher relationships, obsession and betrayal....
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe aby her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy her freedom, does not...
Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey, California, and the effects that one particular family has on them all....
A loose tooth leads to hilarious hijinks with the tooth fairy in book four of the wonderfully imaginative Dory Fantasmagory series Dory has her first loose tooth, and, with her usual over-the-top...
The sequel to the international bestseller One of Us is Lying Welcome back to Bayview High... It's been a year since the events of One Of Us Is Lying. But nothing has settled for the residents...
Los mejores libros jamás escritos.«Si la vida no tenía aliciente paraél, la muerte no le aterraba. íQue se cumpliese su Destino! No haríanada por evitarlo.»La ironía, la honda melancolía y la...
Over the past 50 years, the way we value what is "good" and "right" has changed dramatically. Behavior that to our grandparents' generation might have seemed stupid, harmful or...
Chekhov's genius left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none more so than short fiction. Now, renowned translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us...
***Selected for HM The Queen Consort's Reading Room******A Jenna Bush Hager 'Read With Jenna' Book Club Pick***'Generous, filling, deeply satisfying, funny-sad, every page crammed...
In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders....
'All those excessive, useless regrets...' A collection of nostalgic, erotic poetry from one of the greatest Greek poets to have ever lived. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for...
Fifteen-year-old twins Maisy and Duncan Mitcham have always had each other. Until the fateful day in the wood... One night in 1960, the twins awake to find their father pulling their screaming...