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Savonarola was alone in knowing how to comfort citizens with his sermons and in urging the King to get out of Florence. Although the French left a city driven by...

A freak accident in rural Wyoming leads the Sheriff's Department to arrest a man for a possible double homicide, but further investigations suggest a much more horrifying discovery - a...

Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, and on occasion of chocolate. As an Edinburgh philosopher she is certain of where she stands. She can review a book...

WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSelected as a Book of the Year in the Herald In...

Jim Corbett's name has become legendary, and his stories of tiger-hunting expeditions have become classics of adventure. Over the years, the books in which he described these expeditions and his...

Cold Cream is a sparkling autobiography in the great tradition: wonderfully perceptive, exquisitely rendered and bursting with characters and anecdotes of every shade and hue. A tender, moving and witty...

Widely considered the darkest and most intriguing of the central Star Wars trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back deepens the exploration of mythic themes first essayed in A New Hope.From its...

Has psychoanalysis failed to keep its promise? What are psychoanalysis and literature good for? And what, if anything, have they got to do with each other? Promises, Promises is a...

The author concentrates on four American writers - William Faulkner, Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Eugene O'Neill - and investigates the part alcoholism played in their lives and the ways...

From Svevo, Saba and Joyce in Trieste to Borges, Rushdie and psychopathology, Tim Parks new collection of essays confirms his mastery of the essay form. Other subjects include Saramago, Sebald,...

The bestselling children's books series for over 50 years! Mr Grumble's name suited him well! 'Bah!' he would grumble, every morning when his alarm clock rang. 'It's the start of...

The bestselling children's books series for over 50 years! Mr Forgetful can't remember anything. Anything at all! If Mr Forgetful had a dream he couldn't remember what it was about....

The bestselling children's books series for over 50 years! Mr Topsy-Turvy was a funny sort of fellow. Everything about him was either upside down, or inside out, or back to...

The bestselling children's books series for over 50 years! Mr Rush was the fastest thing on two legs. He used to rush hither and thither, and thither and hither, and...

The bestselling children's books series for over 50 years! Mr Dizzy was, to be quite honest, not very clever. The trouble with Mr Dizzy is that he lived in a...

Introducing a brand new Mr. Men character! Mr Adventure loves going on holiday to exciting places that would make your hair stand on end. But this year he doesn't have...

The bestselling children's books series for over 50 years! Drum roll please... the new Mr Men chosen by the public is Mr Calm! It's time to meet Mr Calm, who...

The bestselling children's books series for over 50 years! Mr Lazy lives in Sleepyland, which is a very lazy-looking and sleepy-like place. He spends rather a lot of time in...

The bestselling children's books series for over 50 years! Whatever Mr Wrong did was absolutely. totally, completely, utterly wrong. However hard he tried, he just couldn't do anything right. The...

The bestselling children's books series for over 50 years! Mr Nonsense had no sense at all. Not a scrap. He moved to a tree because he wanted to be nearer...

The bestselling children's books series for over 50 years! Mr Good is very good. He always makes his bed. He always cleans his teeth. And he always wipes his feet....

The bestselling children's books series for over 50 years! There has never been anybody quite like Mr Busy. He could do things almost ten times as fast as ever you...

The bestselling children's books series for over 50 years! Mr Impossible could do the most amazing things. For instance, Mr Impossible could jump over a house and he could make...

The bestselling children's books series for over 50 years! Mr Happy and Mr Greedy are fed up with Mr Mischief playing tricks on them. But when Mr Mischief tries to...

The bestselling children's books series for over 50 years! Mr Rude is rude. He is very rude. He is extraordinarily rude. Can Mr Happy help change his ways? The Mr...

The bestselling children's books series for over 50 years! On a perfect summer's day, Mr Perfect was looking more perfect than usual. His house was looking even more perfect than...

A fun and exciting tale from the land of Mr Men. It's time to meet Mr Slow!