
Orientalist - Reiss, Tom
The Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion…
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The Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion…
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In a narrative which takes the reader through extreme experiences, from an avalanche in Bolivia, ice-climbing in the Alps…
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Geoffrey Robertson QC has been at the centre of internationally high-profile legal cases for over three decades. From…
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From the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, comes the story of King Edward III, who -…
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Accompanies BBC2's TV series and The Story of Music in 50 Pieces on Radio 3. The author leads us through the story of music…
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John Cheever's Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia. WITH AN…
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Joan-Marc's out of work, he's alone, he has a heart condition, his mother's addicted to pills, he can't stand his sister.…
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During the sixty-odd years of her reign, Queen Victoria gathered around her a household dedicated to her service. Sitting…
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Presents an acerbic response to the phenomenon of Richard M Nixon. In the character of Trick E Dixon, the author portrays an…
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In this extraordinary account, the author details his experiences as a fighter pilot in the Second World War, in which he…
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This is AndrĂ© Brink's story of a life lived in tumultuous times. He describes with searing honesty his conflicting…
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Beyond the walls of the house, he encounters chatty hairdressers and priests, wolf hunters and monstrous carnival effigies.…
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'In a world full of hype, noise, and confusion, the simple lucidity of The Same Sea is totally unexpected' New York TimesAn…
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Whether the subject is a child's eye view of the Nigerian Civil War, Lagos and the spirit world or dispossession in a…
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Set against the cultural and political backdrop of Belfast, before, during and after the Troubles, No Surrender offers a…
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Examines the way in which modern food production has damaged the balance of human existence, and reveals that we have yet to…
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Read the thrilling, tempestuous story of the 'first' Queen of England. Matilda: Wife of the Conqueror, First Queen of…
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old…
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'The classic, groundbreaking account of women's lives in Greece and Rome' Mary BeardFor centuries, half the ancient world…
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One of only a hundred or so books originally written in the Basque language during the last four centuries, Obabakoak is a…
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First published in 1944, during the darkest days of the war, Lord Wavell's great anthology of English poetry - enhanced by…
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The Emperor's Last Stand is a book about St Helena, an island with a sad, strange history, and about the tangle of stories…
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As a young man, David divides his time between his uncle's ranch and his life in the village, where he reluctantly practices…
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In an extraordinary portrayal of one of the world's fastest growing cities, Sam Miller sets out to discover the real Delhi.…
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A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate, Give Me Everything You Have chronicles the author's strange and…
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Sayers. A friend staying with distinguished psychoanalyst and sometime detective Mrs Bradley is alarmed by a chance meeting…
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A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha…
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Like all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or cremate them and to tend to their…
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\nDetective Nigel Strangeways, and his explorer wife Georgia have taken a cottage in the countryside. They are slowly…
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Agatha is aware of an intensity, a powerful storm of emotion briefly awakened by a shortlived love affair with her cousin…
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Comte-Sponville offers the reader both a thoughtful and accessible introduction to the history of Western ethics and an…
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It was the divorce that scandalised Georgian England... Their marriage had the makings of a fairy tale but ended as one of…
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Ever feel like you are pedalling in the choucroute? Been caught with your beard in the mailbox again? Or maybe you just wish…
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The suffragettes outraged Victorian society but their personal lives were just as dramatic as their public actions. adn…
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As her book shows, these stony ladies can be persuaded to yield surprisingly interesting answers' - Lorna Sage, ObserverAn…
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Records the experience of swimming in open water among hundreds of sharks, the beauties of strange seas and landscapes and…
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From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the…
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From the late 1960s, Northern Ireland has been mired in violence. Yet it has had seen more than its fair share of sporting…
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Provides an account of War Poets of 1914-1918, written through a series of actual encounters, or near-encounters, from…
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Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for…
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WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The Second World War was a German war like no other.…
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Singapore - a trading post where different lives jostle and mix. It is 1927, and three young people are starting to question…
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This enjoyable and revealing book - the first biography of Christo - is also the story of Dixter from 1910 to 2006, a unique…
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This anarchic satire is accompanied by related works - short stories, an essay and a screenplay - and through Robert…
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In THE GREAT WORLD, his finest novel yet, David Malouf gives a voice to that experience. Ranging over seventy years of…
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The story of one of the world's most important crops From the gold potatoes at the Sun Temple in Cuzco, Peru, the muddy ones…
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\nBrazil vs the fearsome USSR. In the opening three minutes - \'the greatest three minutes in the history of football\' -…
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Nadezhda saw it as an opportunity for her husband to mend his shattered life, but it was a trap and he was arrested for the…
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