A captivating exploration of the natural world by a respected nature writer draws delightfully unexpected connections and encourages readers to rediscover?natural surroundings for themselves?For the l
Grenville's amazing tale of how she came to write the Booker Prize-shortlisted The Secret RiverKate Grenville's The Secret River was one of the most loved novels of 2006. Shortlisted for the Booker Pr
The second instalment of Jeeves and Wooster's bally spiffing adventures is chock-full of unabridged stories of sparkling brilliance. Martin Jarvis is on top form, voicing a whole range of colourful ch
Now a major motion picture directed by Terence Davies, starring Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, and Kevin Guthrie, this is a powerful portrait of a land and people in turmoil, seen through the life and st
In a remote Siberian village, amid a lawless, unforgiving landscape, lives Anna Petrovna, a beautiful, willfully self-reliant widowed mother. A mystical, separatist Christian sect, a stranded regimen
Being human isn’t easy. Consciousness and free will give control over?life, but the mind is an?unpredictable place.?People are susceptible to forces that are not fully understood. In his thought-provo
Things are never dull in the O’Connell family. Still, Fiona, squeezed between her quiet brother and her mischievous line-dancing twin sisters, thinks life in their tenement flat is far less interestin
This book contains a selection of the finest work from three of Scotland's best-known and best-loved poets: Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan, and Liz Lochhead. They have fascinated and charmed thousands o
A personal message from the author: Lots of individuals in society today are feeble-minded. They don't know what the HELL is going on. Unfortunately many of these people are responsible for running TH
A fascinating portrait of country life across the centuries, as told by Britain's greatest diarists?The unique beauty of the British countryside has been celebrated down the ages in music, poetry, and
When Kit, a work-obsessed literature student, goes on a whim to a dance class she is hoping simply to take her mind off her studies. Soon it looks like Joe, a stranger she meets there, may te
Madame tells the story of a charmingly self-absorbed teenager as he pursues sexual and intellectual maturity—and the woman of his dreams—in Communist-dominated Warsaw of the early '70s. H
Oliver Postgate's death in December 2008 was greeted with great sadness. For over 40 years his name was synonymous with the best in children's television?Bagpuss, The Clangers, Ivor the Engine, The Po
From number one bestselling author Matt Haig comes a hilarious and heartwarming story, brilliantly illustrated throughout by Chris Mould“Wherever she is, whatever the day,She only has one kind of thin
A subversive and deeply suggestive masterpiece, Trocchi's greatest erotic novelHow difficult it is to explain! The terribly mute hunger in our bodies! If I touch my thigh here in the near darkness of
A new edition of the first novel by the legendary musician and Godfather of Rap, a 1970s Harlem noir tale ?Digging the rhythms of the street, where the biggest deal life has to offer is getting high,?
Ross Leckie tells of the final Punic War: the story of a great city and a people’s utter eradication under the relentless rise of Rome. But its chief characters, one the bastard son of Hannibal, the o
Chris Guthrie, torn between her love of the land and her desire to escape the narrow horizons of a peasant culture, is the thread that links these three works. In them, Gibbon interweaves the personal
In 1911, in the Scottish Border village of Sprouston, the young parish minister wrote to theDaily Mail for entry forms for its sweet pea competition. The top prize was a staggering £1000 and organizer
