*Winner of the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize*Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Biography Award 入圍 2014英國科斯塔圖書獎 ‘In real life, goshawks resemble sparrowhawks the way leopards resemble housecats. Bigger, yes.
Set against the background of violence and state repression in a turbulent period of French history, this book chronicles the incredible and outrageous life of Louise Michel, the revolutionary feminis
"McCullin is required reading if you want to know what real journalism is all about." --Times Literary SupplementFrom the construction of the Berlin Wall through every conflict up to
'The best book we've done on the Book Club this year' - Simon Mayo Radio 2 Book Club 'A novel of head-snapping ambition and heart-stopping power' - Michiko Kakutani, New York Times 'Love The Wire? Th
It's time to get out of the bath but Shirley's not listening. She's floated away to a secret watery land beyond the plughole?to where knights ride white horses, and kings and queens float in moats ar
Julien's parents talk about Father Christmas endlessly, but he doesn't believe in him any more. Nevertheless he humours his parents and writes Father Christmas a letter asking for a video games consol
West of Eden is the definitive story of Hollywood, told, in their own words, by the people on the inside: Lauren Bacall, Arthur Miller, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Ring Lardner, Joan Didion, Stephen S
Any trial is an act of theatre. After the horror of the Second World War, the Nuremberg Tribunal became a symbol of the 'free world's' choice of justice in the face of tyranny, aggression and atrocity
Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private
Set in the future, a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited, J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying. Two people fall in love,
Newly arrived in the Zone of Interest - the name given to the outer perimeter of the camp at Auschwitz - Golo Thomsen, an official with important connections in Berlin, promptly and ill-advisedly fall
Joe Sacco is renowned for his non-fiction books of comics journalism like Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde and Footnotes in Gaza. Now in Bumf he returns to his early days as a satirist and underground car
From the day she is discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery at the beginning of the twentieth century – nothing but a bowling ball, a candlepin and fifteen pounds of gold on her person – Bert
From the author who brought you The Encyclopedia of Early Earth comes another Epic Tale of Derring-Do. Prepare to be dazzled once more by the overwhelming power of stories and see Love prevail in the
A gift that will bring cries of delighted recognition from anyone who has ever owned a dog and, dare one say it, charm the pants off even those who strongly prefer cats. Hello. My name is Plum and I’m
Few newspaper editors are remembered beyond their lifetimes, but David Astor of the Observer is a great exception to the rule. He converted a staid, Conservative-supporting Sunday paper into essential
The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's carer in his squalid home and her day job as a se
A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. BACKSTORY: Test your knowledge of the book and its characters, and learn more about water dowsing!Reunited for the summer, the Swallows and Amazons with Dic
‘A modern gothic triumph. Spectacularly well-observed, profoundly disquieting and utterly riveting. Like all Evie Wyld's work it is startlingly insightful about psychological and physical abuse. It is
