''[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated'' Doris Lessing, Sunday TelegraphWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NATALIA…
The Bloody History of British ColonisationFor centuries, a small island nation cast a shadow across the world. The British EmpireÂ’s methods of expansion were often brutal,…
A tender and poignant debut of the redemptive power of unexpected friendship.In an old-fashioned fishing community on Morecambe Bay, change is imperceptibly slow. Treacherous…
A LITHUB BOOK OF THE DECADE. The US is one of the largest democracies in the world — or is it?America is experiencing an age of profound economic inequality. Employee…
A collection of sewing projects for adult clothes from the Japanese quarterly sewing magazine Cotton Friend'. Includes easy-to-make ponchos, coats, dresses and tunics.
Iris Grey's childhood was idyllic... until her father remarried. Far too spirited to be forced into a life of servitude, sheruns away to London, where she crosses paths with…
A wonderful translation into Scots Language of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's Jonty Gentoo.Are ye aw set for a pole-tae-pole adventure?Jocky, a gallus wee gentoo penguin, is…
“The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”“So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail…
‘Everything I look for in fantasy’ – George R. R. MartinTwo outcasts find themselves caught in a web of dangerous magic and dark secrets that could change the world forever …
Out the window they flew, far up into the sky, and soon the whole family was flying around and around together.Every Saturday morning the Gregg family goes off to shoot animals…
Mr and Mrs Brick are builders, just like their mothers and fathers and grandmothers and grandfathers. But their new baby doesn''t seem to be following in their footsteps. Instead…
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Cundill History Prize, Fage and Oliver Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award Winner of the…
The world’s favourite pocket travel guidesMake the most of your trip to Singapore with this Top 10 guide. Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very…
From the glitz of the London club scene of the 1990's to the underbelly of its criminal world, Layer Cake is the best in British crime fiction.
Winston Churchill understood and wielded the power of words throughout his six decades in the public eye. His wartime writings and speeches revealed both his vision for the future…