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Complete Guide to Life Drawing - Bammes Gottfried

A complete course, packed with instruction and profusely illustrated. This fantastic book is all you need if you want to start drawing the figure, or if you want to develop your…

The Third Man and Other Stories - Graham Greene

Rollo Martins, a failing novelist, is invited to Vienna by his best friend, Harry Lime. The city he arrives in is unrecognizable – torn apart by the Second World War and shared…

The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune. Anthony and his wife…

Othello - William Shakespeare

Othello is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona's love for her husband Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but his trusted ensign,…

Redemption Ark - Alastair Reynolds

The Inhibitors are back and Humanity is doomed!Many, many millennia ago, the Inhibitors seeded the universe with machines designed to detect intelligent life - and then to…

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.' Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's…

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll's novels have entertained readers young and old for more than a century. Their magical worlds, amusing characters, clever dialogue and playfully logical illogic…

Stuff Matters - Prof. Mark Miodownik

* * * Winner of the 2014 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books * * *   Stuff Matters by Mark Miodnownik is a unique and inspiring exploration of human creativity.…

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe - Agatha Christie

A dentist lies murdered at his Harley Street practice... The dentist was found with a blackened hole below his right temple. A pistol lay on the floor near his outflung right hand…

The 7th Function of Language - Laurent Binet

'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you'll read this year' - ObserverRoland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's…

The Tail of Emily Windsnap - Liz Kesslerová

Emily Windsnap lives on a boat, but her mother has always been oddly anxious to keep her out of the water. It is only when Emily has her first school swimming lesson that she…

The Land of Stories: Worlds Collide - Chris Colfer

The epic conclusion to Chris Colfer's No.1 New York Times bestselling series The Land of Stories! In the highly anticipated finale, Conner and Alex must brave the impossible. All…

Six Minutes in May - Nicholas Shakespeare

*** Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Observer and The Economist *** `A gripping story of Churchill's unlikely rise to power' Observer London,…

How to Read Buildings - Carol Davidson Cragoe

How to Read Buildings is a practical primer to looking at architecture and all the elements that are included in buildings, from cornices and friezes to columns and porticos - all…

Surprise Me - Sophie Kinsella

NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Sophie Kinsella's emotionally charged, witty new standalone novel about love and long-term relationship survival - and how those we think we know…