A novel about love, loss and living in the moment, from the bestselling author of The Humans.The first rule is that you don’t fall in love. There are other rules too, but that...
Arthur Schopenhauer’s The Art of Literature is a lively, illuminating and brutally honest collection of essays on literary style and values, writers and critics, and the nature...
A panoramic new history of modern Britain, as told through the story of one extraordinary family, and one groundbreaking company.In the early 1800s Lehmann Gluckstein and his...
After a corpse wearing pince-nez glasses is found in a bathtub, Lord Peter Wimsey undertakes the case and investigates the deed privately. But determining whether the corpse...
From the perspective of an unbeliever, Fear and Trembling explores the paradox of faith, the nature of Christianity, and the complexity of human emotion. Kierkegaard examines the...
The second book in the super-funny classic series The Bagthorpe Saga, starring the TOTALLY unforgettable Bagthorpe family – from best-loved author Helen Cresswell. Bad, mad and...
‘A must-read book, eye-opening and jaw-dropping. Sometimes painful, sometimes sad, often very, very funny. Addictive and fascinating’ Craig BrownShocking, funny and...
When Tsar Alexander II decided to drag Russia into the industrial age, he began by inviting Welsh businessman John Hughes to build an ironworks. A charismatic visionary, John...
This Christmas, sprinkle some Cecelia Ahern magic in your life.If you could wish for one gift this Christmas, what would it be?Lou Suffern wishes he could be in two places at...
When Inspector Field shows his friend Charles Dickens the body of a young woman dragged from the River Thames, he cannot have foreseen that the famous author would immediately...