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In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at `Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will...

Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a problem...

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Queen Victoria's favourite poet, commanded a wider readership than any other of his time. His ascendancy was neither the triumph of pure genius nor an accident of...

Anthony Trollope is, with Dickens, perhaps the most enduringly popular Victorian novelist. Born in 1815, he initially made his living working for the Post Office, and introduced the pillar box...

'Grammar is the science of using words rightly, leading to thinking rightly, leading to deciding rightly, without which - as both common sense and experience show - happiness is impossible....

?? A Beauty and the Beast Fantasy Romance Retelling ?? A deadly war. A stolen princess. A separation of mates. A secret unearthed. War has come to the Enchanted Vale....

As heart-warming as it is heartbreaking, this novel is unputdownable' Sunday Express. It is 1953 and five very different girls are arriving at the nurses' home in Lovely Lane, Liverpool,...

Everything works out - except in the end. In the meantime, concentrate on temptations of the flesh; on naked desire. Being properly damned brings its own joy: that's what Richard...

Churchill's image is as an imperial die-hard, implacably opposed to colonial freedom. However, his relationship to Empire is far more complex and ambigious. Written by the acclaimed young historian Richard...

'ONE NIGHT, NEW YORK transports the reader to the glitter and the danger of old New York. A page-turner with style.' ERIN KELLY'ENTHRALLING' THE TIMES, BEST NEW HISTORICAL FICTIONA THRILLING...

Charlie Small is twelve years old when he falls through a gap in space and time and ends up in a series of adventures which he records in a diary...

Crossing cultures can be a stimulating and rewarding adventure. It can also be a stressful and bewildering experience. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Furnham and Bochner's classic Culture...

Every family has it's problems - Julie Gillis collects them. She's used to telling the readers of her agony column what to do, but somehow she's missed the warning signs...

'Magnificent and stunning' Jeff VanderMeer, author of Hummingbird Salamander 'An immense achievement. Masterful and merciless' Olivia Sudjic, author of Asylum Road 'Expertly conjures California noir filtered through the ambient and...

Older than the Egyptian pyramids, older than Stonehenge, for 5,000 years the ancient megalithic tomb at Newgrange in County Meath has housed the remains of Stone Age 'aristocracy', sheltering the...

Ross weaves together science and spirituality in a highly intelligent way. He is a visionary.' Nick Williams, author of The Work We Were Born To Do In this illuminating guide,...

J. D. Salinger was one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He was also one of its most elusive. After making his mark on the American literary scene with the...