Bellman and Black

The Shepherd of the Hills

Few works of American fiction have proved as enduringly popular as Harold Bell Wright's The Shepherd of the Hills. Wright's novel, first published in 1907,

Winker

'A highly enjoyable game of cat-and-mouse with perfect period texture and some nicely wry humour' The Guardian 'This playful caper is equally successful as a

The Road to Middlemarch

La vârsta de șaptesprezece ani, Rebecca Mead a citit romanul Middlemarch pentru prima dată și l-a citit apoi la fiecare 5 ani, de fiecare dată

Hugh Thomson's Illustrations of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Emma

This book features illustrations from Mansfield Park and Emma, and clearly shows Hugh Thomson's talent for capturing the moods and personalities of Jane Austen's charact...

Something to Live For

Andrew's day-to-day is a little grim, searching for next of kin for those who die alone. Thankfully, he has a loving family waiting for him

English Animals

'A joy to read' Amanda Craig 'Shades of Cold Comfort Farm...Charming' Guardian English Animals is a subversive, wry debut that fans of Marina Lewycka's A

Columnist

Years of backstabbing and betrayal start to catch up with one of Washington’s elite opinion writers, “a character that deserves to jump outside the Beltway

Tell Me How This Ends Well

In 2022, American Jews face an increasingly unsafe and anti-Semitic landscape at home. Against this backdrop, the Jacobson family gathers for Passover in Los Angeles....

Fake Accounts

A wry, provocative and very funny debut novel about identity, authenticity and the self in the age of the internet, fakery and illusion

Jubilee Lines

To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary

Bluffer's Guide to Poetry

Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of poetry and verse (bluffers might be surprised to discover

A+ Educators

What makes a great teacher? While there is no particular formula, one thing is certain: Great teachers are worthy of the respect and admiration of

Yu the Great: Conquering the Flood

This graphic novel tells the legend of Yu the Great, a Chinese hero from the twenty-first century B.C. Some scholars believe Yu actually existed and

Bina

My name is Bina and I'm a very busy woman. That's Bye-na, not Beena. I don't know who Beena is but I expect she's having

The Medieval French Alexander

Overall, the collection offers a provocative rethinking of the monumental medieval French tradition of Alexander the Great, as well as valuable insight into the emergence...

Daydreams Of Angels

A cherub breaks all the rules when he spends one night with a girl on earth. A soldier is brought back to life by a

Loved and Missed

'I was in the story feeling everything. I cared about every character . . . She writes beautifully. It was a total pleasure' Philippa Perry

The Hustler

Fast Eddie is an arrogant and talented pool shark who has decided that winning a few dollars here and there is not enough, so he

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Capital

From the bestselling author of Whoops! and The Debt to Pleasure comes a post-financial crisis, state-of-the-nation novel told with compassion, humour and unflinching tru...

Treasure Island (fiction)

'It is all as frightening and exciting when read for the umpteenth time in middle age as when first discovered in childhood.'-A.N. Wilson When young

Girl at the Door

A tense, provocative and nuanced novel about a rape accusation in an idyllic commune. I was in my sixth month when the girl came knocking.

Animal Farm

Romanul Animal Farm este unul dintre cele mai faimoase avertismente scrise vreodată. Satira nemuritoare a lui Orwell - îndreptată „împotriva lui Stalin” așa cum i-a

Across the Mystic Shore (Macmillan New Writing)

The arrival of a young boy in an upper-middleclass Bengali household triggers a gripping story of love, desire, and renunciation. Set in two cities, New

Yoga Book People Special Edition, Geoff Dyer

From Amsterdam to Cambodia, from Rome to Indonesia, from New Orleans to Libya, and from Detroit to Ko Pha-Ngan, Geoff Dyer finds himself both floundering

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the ultimate in detective fiction, pitting the horror of the supernatural against the cold, hard logic of the unflappable

Eternal Boy

Povestea lui Kenneth Grahame, autorul clasicului pentru copii Wind in the Willows și a viziunii pastorale engleze care a inspirat-o. The story of Kenneth Grahame,

Cape May

Newlyweds Henry and Effie arrive from Georgia for their honeymoon. As they tentatively discover each other - walking on the deserted beach overlooking the vast,

Answer to Everything

Enter Alathea and Elliott, their new neighbours, and also parents of two young boys. Alathea is intimidatingly confident and beautiful, but also disarmingly open and

Fire on All Sides: Insanity, insomnia and the incredible inconvenience of life

The international bestseller 'Hysterical, harrowing, honest... I really loved this book' Jarvis Cocker 'A brilliant, jangling opus to Rhodes's frantic mind... I canno...

The Virginian

Virginian, de Owen Wister, face parte din seria Barnes & Noble Classics, care propune ediții de calitate la prețuri accesibile atât studenților cît și cititorului

White Elephant

The White Elephant looms large over the quaint suburban town of Willard Park: an ornate, newly constructed behemoth of a home, it soars over the

Shameless

New revelations on a notorious local cold case raise ghosts of the past in the newest thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins. Twenty

AGNES GREY

Agnes Grey (1847) was Anne Bronte s first novel and a poignant account of her own experience as a struggling governess, obliged to earn her

What Milo Saw

Nine-year-old Milo Moon has retinitis pigmentosa: his eyes are slowly failing, and he will eventually go blind. But for now he sees the world through

The Golden Evening

From the Booker-Prize-winning author of Holiday. Rejacketed and reissued by Windmill to mark the 40th anniversary of Stanley Middleton's Booker Prize win. A brother an...

Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

My name's Griz. I've never been to school, I've never had friends, in my whole life I've not met enough people to play a game

Buffering

Parcurgând jurnalele pe care Hannah le-a ținut o mare parte din viața ei, această colecție de eseuri narative oferă o imagine mai completă a vieții

Diamond Hill

Set in the last shanty town of Hong Kong before the fraught 1997 handover from Britain to China, Diamond Hill follows the return of a

On Animals

'Every essay in this book is magnificent... Mesmerizing.' New York Times 'How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,'...

Mr Verdant Green: Adventures of an Oxford Freshman

The adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford freshman, is a wonderfully amusing and engaging account of a naive university student, thrown into life amongst

Keep Your Feet Hidden: A Southern Belle on the Shores of Tripoli

Elizabeth and her two brothers were the children of a lumber mill owner and his young wife living in southern America. Adventurous and fearless, as

Robin Hood

Robin Hood is England's greatest folk hero. Everyone knows the story of the outlaw who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Nick

Crampton Hodnet

Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties to young academics and acting as watchdog of the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her

Darkest Night

'A first-rate romantic thriller that has adrenaline to spare' Publishers Weekly USA Today bestselling author Megan Erickson turns up the heat in her sexy and

Brixton Hill

As Rob reaches the end of a seven year stretch inside, he winds up in an open prison in Brixton. Each morning, he exits the

Last Good Man

Duncan Peck has travelled alone to Dartmoor in search of his cousin. He has come from the city, where the fires are always burning. In

Historical Noir

It's one of the most successful--and surprising--of phenomena in the entire crime fiction genre: detectives (and proto-detectives) solving crimes in earlier eras. Barry F...

The Shape of Family

The Olanders embody a modern family in a globalized world. Jaya, the cultured daughter of an Indian diplomat, and Keith, an ambitious banker from middle-class

Trinity

'Brilliant . . . Hall has shaped a richly imagined, tremendously moving fictional work. Its genius is not to explain but to embody the science

Lean Fall Stand

Award-winning novelist Jon McGregor returns with a stunning novel that mesmerizingly and tenderly unpicks the notion of heroism and explores the indomitable human impuls...

Radical Acts of Love

In Radical Acts of Love, Janie Brown, oncology nurse of thirty years and counsellor of cancer patients with terminal diagnoses, recounts twenty conversations she has

The Hotel Life

A man who writes a hotel review-column for a newspaper is given the wrong key card when he checks in to a hotel, and he

Staging the Gaze

Această carte rară și de epocă este o completare perfectă la colecția oricărui bibliofil This rare and vintage book is a perfect addition to any

Old Slave And The Mastiff

A profoundly unsettling story of a plantation slave's desperate escape into a rainforest beyond human control, with his master and a ferocious dog on his

Cygnet

'Not since Holden Caulfield have I been so captivated by a first-person voice as the one Season Butler creates in Cygnet' Blake Morrison 'A bright

I [heart] beer!

'I LOVE BEER' - A manly collection of Odd Squad cartoons all about men and the funny (and slightly disgusting) things men do. „I LOVE

You Are Here

'Funny when it goes in for burlesque but screamingly so when it simply delivers the evidence' Independent Like the critically acclaimed Bremner, Bird and Fortune

Big Bang

Set in the 1950's, this epic, Warholian novel presents a brilliant and wholly original take on the years leading up to the Kennedy assassination. Where

Giraffes In My Hair: A Rock N Roll Life

Bruce Paley turned 18 in 1967 during the Summer of Love, putting him on the front lines of the late-1960s youth movement. Paley’s tumultuous journey