BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN ''Very wicked, very funny . . . very unsettling'' GUARDIAN ''Each story is more appalling than…
Since her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon. This book addresses why this is the case and what this tells us about the way culture picks out…
Rumer Godden''s stunning classic novel of devotion, faith and madness ''You have to be very strong to live close to God or a mountain, or you''ll turn a little mad . . .''High in…
''The thing about having a second baby is it''s likely to differ a lot from your first experience. Sarah Ockwell''s Smith''s guide looks at the challenges you might face along…
When the bestselling video game Gears of War was released in late 2006, it quickly became the fastest selling original Xbox title ever, and has since gone on to sell more than…
Two thieves want answers. Riyria is born.For more than a year, Royce Melborn has tried to forget Gwen DeLancy, the woman who saved him and his partner Hadrian Blackwater when all…
The Satanic Bible was written by Anton LaVey in 1969. It is a collection of essays, observations and basic Satanic rituals, and outlines LaVey''s Satanic ideology. It contains the…
"I said, ''It''s my life and it hasn''t been very special so far, has it, so why shouldn''t I write any old rubbish?"Tracy Beaker is BACK . . . and she''s just DESPERATE for a…
The classic, in-depth history of psychoanalysis, presenting over a hundred years of thought and theories Sigmund Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological…
This unique reference classifies the clothes and accessories of the 12th through the 15th centuries along social lines. Garments of every type, from the wardrobes of peasants and…
Celebrate Americana and colour your way across the USA, from Maine to California.
A timely and up-to-date account of religion in Roman Britain. Two thousand years ago, the Romans sought to absorb into their Empire what they regarded as a remote, almost…
It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943 . . . April 1982. Argentine forces…
Set in a crumbling Soviet Black Sea resort, The Life of Insects with its motley cast of characters who exist simultaneously as human beings (racketeers, mystics, drug addicts and…
Cromwell spent only nine months of his eventful life in Ireland, yet he stands accused there of war crimes, religious persecution and ethnic cleansing. In a century of unrelenting…