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Beautifully illustrated narrative history of the English country church In his engaging account, Sir Roy Strong celebrates…

• Rok vydání 1974

Beginning with the year that Manet exhibited his ground-breaking Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe and ending in 1974 with the first…

Argues that we have entered an 'age of forgetting', where we have set aside our immediate past before we could even begin to…

• Rok vydání 2010

For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern…

\nOn a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors - Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho - converged on a…

Features 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'The Task of the Translator' and 'Theses on the Philosophy…

Since the early 1970s, Marina Warner has been one of the most challenging, subtle and profound commentators on the culture…

Discover one of India's most valued and adored twentieth-century novelists, including his novel Swami and Friends. Here are…

Lonely historian Tom Baines is at work on a study of the city's architectural past but the ominous news from Europe,…

On a remote farm in northern Norway, eighty-year-old Anna Neshov is rushed to hospital after suffering a stroke. Her three…

But somehow he ends up earning peanuts in a Suffolk bookshop while his devious and wayward friend Jack, becomes rich and…

The morning fog beyond the walls of your base lifts to reveal a lone woman approaching the gate. She says she has come to…

One-time doctor and fugitive from the Monmouth rebellion, Peter Blood escaped from slavery to become the terror of the…

The poet George Crabbe (1754 - 1832), best known as the author of Peter Grimes and The Village, was also a surgeon, a…

Mount Ararat in Turkey is where, as biblical tradition has it, Noah's Ark ran aground and God made his covenant with mankind.…

One of his most admired works, LOVING describes life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second…

A search for this lost text and its poignant, devastatingly simple message begins... This is a beguiling tale of fables,…

Each of them will find their lives changed forever over a story which spans decades and continents, a story that shines a…

It's two days before Christmas and Helsinki is battling ruthless climate catastrophe: subway tunnels are flooded; Determined…

The story of seven friends from Oxford and their adventures in the world of the media in the 1980s, Smashing People is…

The bestselling author of Hidden Lives explores four marriages, including her own, in different times and societies to find…

Abandoned by her mother, who left to pursue a career as a camp guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau, loathed by her step-mother,…

What first prompted prehistoric man, sheltering in the shadows of deep caves, to call upon the realm of the spirits? And why…

Peter Heg's first novel is an interweaving of the lives and loves of four families, within which histories time expands,…

Even the biggest cycling fan can one day wake up to find that he has lost his faith Bad Blood is the story of Jeremy…

On the dunes west of Bruges, two-year-old Ydette is found wrapped in a blanket and taken back to live in a small grocer's…

Psychologist, teacher and therapist, John Selby, shows how the non-stop chatter of our minds and our own fear-based thoughts…

Beginning with the Norman Conquest of England, these tumultuous centuries and their invasions shaped the languages and…

Assuming the character of a wise village storyteller, R K Narayan sits in the cool of an imaginary evening to recount the…

To read the journals she kept from the age of sixteen is to step back into Georgian England, meeting Dr Johnson, Garrick and…

From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold HotelTake an ordinary, well-off family like the Prices. Watch what…

Reveals how NASA cashed in on the Americans' thirst for heroes in an age of discontent and became obsessed with putting men…

First published 25 years ago, this biography of the Sun King uses contemporary sources to examine what sort of monarch Louis…

An English geologist working on a Mediterranean island becomes embroiled in a nightmare web of deceit, corruption, lust and…

'This is a wonderful book: curious and insightful' Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe…

They recited poetry, took part in ridiculous antics, indulged in high-minded discussions - with such displays of brilliance…

An impassioned correspondence between two former school friends as they reach crisis in middle age, from the prize-winning…

'Before I turn 67 - next March - I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope…

• Rok vydání 2000

In Hooking Up Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, observing the 'lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest…

The Holy Grail of modern scientists is 'The Theory of Everything', which will contain all that can be known about the…

A novel about working-class factory life in Birmingham. Lily Gates keeps house for her widowed father, her timid suitor,…

Contains stories with a mix of humour, pathos, dysfunctional families and disappointed lives, as well as dazzling moments of…

The retreat of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons in the early months of the First World War is one of the great…

Lyrical, immediate and heartbreaking, Malouf's fable engraves the epic themes of the Trojan war onto a perfect miniature -…

After three years of service in the Russian navy and a gruelling expedition to Greenland, Captain Frederik Ziege of the…

Early one morning in the hills of Provence, Pierrot, a fifteen-year-old boy out hunting for snails, stumbles across the dead…

Laura Thornby is independent, individual and perfectly in control of her life. Her affairs are brief but delightful, her…

• Rok vydání 2016

Winner of the Saltire Society First Book Award 2016An Economist Book of the Year 2016A Spectator Book of the Year 2016In…