Offers an exploration of athletic success. This book shows why some skills that we imagine are innate are not - like the…

From the quiet beauty of 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' to the apocalyptic resonance of 'The Second Coming', this collection…

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013 Sheila's twenties were going to plan. So Sheila abandons her marriage and…

Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or, that there's…

The poems of this dazzling second collection are of contradictory impulses: of abundance and famine, of absence and…

In this stellar collection of short stories, Helen Simpson explores independence, solitude, marriage, sex and babies with…

Reading provides a unique kind of pleasure and no-one should live without it. This title tells us about the experience of…

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As Charles's twentieth birthday - and the Oxford entrance exams - loom, his plans for seducing Rachel will draw him into a…

Both are symptomatic members of our atomised society, where religion has given way to shallow 'new age' philosophies and…

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODENQuerry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he…

How does a novelist write about the facts of his life after spending years fictionalising those facts with irrepressible…

Britain's influence industry The corporate takeover of democracy is no conspiracy theory - it's happening, and it affects…

THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATIONIn the two novels - The Captive and The…

We are attracted, whether we know it or not, to the hidden aspects of things and people. Some teenagers enjoy cutting…

They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of…

Adam and Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweethearts whose lives and families have been intertwined for years;…

Five years of marriage have made her itchy - itchy for men, and itchy for solitude. Ditching her second husband during a…

The course of the Meander is so famously indirect that the river's name has come to signify digression. In this title, at…

As the youngest student to be admitted to Bergen's prestigious Writing Academy, Karl Ove arrives full of excitement and…

The Essays was an instant bestseller, and over four hundred years later, readers still come to him in search of…

The New Machiavelli is a gripping account of life inside 'the bunker' of Number 10. In his twenty-first century reworking of…

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize Stag's Leap, Sharon Olds' stunningly poignant new…

An intelligently provocative book about Darwin's 'other' theory discusses the curious ways in which sexual attraction has…

Sebastian and Oskar have been friends since their days studying physics at university, when both were considered future…

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In this remarkable little book, Andre Comte-Sponville introduces the reader to the western philosophical tradition in a…

Reminds you of what you were taught about women in history lessons at school, which is to say, not a lot. This book of…

Opening with a powerful and tender 'Ode to the Hymen', the author uses this age-old poetic form to address many aspects of…

The world is in a mess. For more than a billion people, everyday life is played out against the backdrop of civil wars,…

'O'Hara is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to…

Umberto Eco undertakes a series of idiosyncratic and typically brilliant explorations, starting from the perceived data of…

Semiology is the science of signs and symbols, and their role in culture and society. "Writing Degree Zero" is Barthes'…

They are Twirlymen. Having himself failed through a combination of injury and indolence to become a leg-spinner of renown,…

An explanation of what happens to us when we die. The author, a surgeon with more than 30 years' experience, describes in…

Records the dichotomy of human experience. This book deals with break-up, depression, illness and death. It also reveals an…

Translated by Peter ConstantineEdited and with an new introduction by Leo Damrosch'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in…

• Rok vydání 2015

Winner of the 2015 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, this title shows the author's fascination with human experience. It…

James Walvin offers a new and an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of the historic end to the…

'Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.' First published in 1955 and an instant…

'This brilliant collection of essays should be a feast for his admirers, as well as for those who approach his dazzling…

Includes poems which takes into a world riven by violence and betrayal, between nations and individuals.…

Sweeping through the last thousand years of human development, this book is a treasure chest of the lunar leaps and…

Dr Max Aue is a family man and owner of a lace factory in post-war France. He was an observer and then a participant in Nazi…

In her opening essays - 'Fathers', 'Forefathers' and 'Ancestors', the author considers the renaissance of the historical…

Shadows of the Mind is a profound exploration of what modern physics has to tell us about the mind, and a visionary…

Here, drawing on a novelists insight into art, literature and psychology, Iris Murdoch conducts an ongoing debate with major…

A collection of four stories comprising ` Under The Garden' (A short novel); `A Visit to the Morin'; Dream of a Strange…

William Harvey's theory of circulation was as controversial in its day as Copernicus' idea that the earth revolved around…

Leskov's stories of Russian life are explosions of imagination. Peopled by outsized characters including serfs, princes,…