Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a ''good job'' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time…
A heartfelt and touching celebration of the names we're given.
A warm and charming tale of diversity, language, and the shared cultures that make-up modern life.Shona has always loved words. She even has her very own strange word thesaurus!…
First things first, stay calm.Eric Sanderson wakes up in a place he doesn''t recognise, unable to remember who he is. All he has left are journal entries recalling Clio, a perfect…
An introduction to drawing, cartooning, and capturing the essence of a subject all while having fun. It features step-by-step instruction from Professor Blook.
** BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week **Shark Drunk is, in part, the tale of two men in a very small boat on the trail of a very big fish. It is also a story of obsession, enchantment…
Now available in a new edition, this opulent book reaches back 25,000 years to trace the history of jewelry from the Paleolithic Era to the present day.Drawn from the extensive…
A provocative and inspiring book on the culture and politics of black women's rights
Illustrated study of classic British and American travel writers to Florence over a 200 year period.
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the…
Scarlett and Sophie Rickard present No Surrender, a graphic novel adapted from Constance Maud’s 1911 suffrage novel about English women’s rights, a classic examining of civil…
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN''Provocative but often funny, encyclopedic but down to earth . . . an…
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the miniature world of the mice of Brambly Hedge!It was such a hot summer. They sky was deep blue and the sun never faltered. All along Brambly…
In this entertaining and challenging collection of logic puzzles, Raymond Smullyan -- author of Forever Undecided -- continues to delight and astonish us with his gift for making…
''The greatest history of an event I know'' - C.L.R. JamesRegarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution offers…