Exiles

Second Child

Chosen for the Radio 2 Book Club with Simon Mayo'A carefully crafted and utterly compelling tale of lost opportunity and impossible choices.' Amanda Brooke, author

Dubliners (Pulp! The Classics) (fiction)

Booze, sex, and hot floury potatoes—those Dubliners are at it again! Liars, thieves, whores, and priests: James Joyce sure knew how to throw a party!

The Eye in the Door (Regeneration)

Drawing of the history of the Pemberton Billing libel trial in which all Britain's military troubles were laid at the door of the British homosexuals,

The Families of Fairley Terrace: Book 5

Laurel is protective of her fiercely clever younger sister, who has always struggled to fit in, yet whilst she's happy to be home, she's keeping

THE PROPHET

The Prophet, an international besteller and translated into over fifty languages, is the best-known and best-loved of Kahil Gibran's many spiritual and religious wri...

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,

It's OK, I'm wearing really big knickers!

What is the matter with my life? Why is it so deeply unfab? It's a day and a half now since I snogged the Sex

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

Carradine Diary

Graphic designer Abby Martin lives with her partner Gayle in England-until Abby secures an assignment to illustrate a biography of the 19th-century author Lucy Pritchar...

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

Lost Transmissions

O istorie fascinantă a operelor S.F. și fantasy care nu au fost terminate, au fost pierdute sau nu au fost valorizate destul. S.F-ul și genul

Why Mummy Doesn't Give a ****!

I'm wondering how many more f*cking 'phases' I have to endure before my children become civilised and functioning members of society? It seems like people

Comediennes

It wasn't until the 10th century that women were allowed to perform, and then only in rare incidences. Like many art forms, female comedy got

New Ghosts

These poems live and move among images: beach, forest, fire, dark - and then among the images of images: hunger, shadow, regret. What is it

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...

The Frood

As a wise ape once observed, space is big—vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly so. However, if you look too closely at space, it becomes nothing but lumps

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

Finding a Girl in America

Set in Dubus's largely coastal New England world, these short works focus on the residual anguish and momentary elation of deep emotional attachments--between lovers, bet...

Washington Square

A study of conflict between father and daughter, this is the story of Catherine, the plain, obedient daughter of Dr August Sloper of Washington Square,

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

The Switch

Anthony Horowitz Anthony Horowitz started writing because he wanted to be like Tintin. He has now travelled to all the places that Tintin has been

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....

Losing It

Millie a fost la un moment dat destul de bine cunoscută pentru diverse apariții TV și radio. Cu toate acestea, acum nu are bani, o

Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England

These narratives of violence, theft, disruptive sexuality, and rebellion compelled their readers to sort through fragmentary or contested evidence, anticipating the openn...

Helena Crash

A new pulse pounding, caffeine fueled, sword swinging, machine-gun firing, car crashing sci-fi adventure comic! In a future where coffee is illegal, Helena is a

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

ALEX CROSS - CRISS CROSS

Mega Men: Vol. 6

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

Crushed

Phoebe stă pe Podul Pulteney, cu colanții tăiați de la gambă la coapsă. Șocul metalului stricat și al pereților pătați de sânge îi trece prin

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

You Me Everything

Jess și fiul ei, William, în vârstă de zece ani, au pornit să petreacă vara la Château de Roussignol, adânc în dealurile bogate și luminate

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

Return to Cranford

The fictional town of Cranford is closely modeled on Knutsford in Cheshire, which Mrs Gaskell knew well. The book has little in the way 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

Between the Psyche and the Polis

Incorporating studies of Freudian and Marxist approaches to questions of history and memory, this timely collection illuminates how history is being refigured in contempo...

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

Herbert Read

During his lifetime, Herbert Read (1893–1968) acquired a considerable international reputation. Poet and anarchist novelist and biographer critic of art, literature, an...

Dead Letters

Ava has her reasons for running away to Paris. But when she receives the shocking news that her twin sister, Zelda, is dead, she is

The Reception of Grimms' 'Fairy Tales'

'The essays address the reception of the Grimms' texts by their readers the dynamics between Grimms' collection and its earliest audiences and aspects of the

Being a Boy Again

Marcia Jacobson's Being a Boy Again identifies a literary genre that flourished between the Civil War and World War I - the American boy book.

The Lair

Norman Manea, cel mai faimos autor contemporan român în străinătate, a fost supraviețuitor a două regimurilor totalitare în România, urmând să plece în exil în

NOTABLE WOMAN

In April 1925, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she would keep for the rest of her life, producing over a million words in

Will Sparrow's road

In 1599 England, twelve-year-old lying, thieving Will Sparrow runs away, meets many colorful characters on the road, and then reluctantly joins a traveling 'oddities' ex...

Screamin' Jay Hawkins' all-time greatest hits

'The R & B wildman Screamin' Jay Hawkins only had a single hit, the classic 'I Put a Spell On You,' and was often written

Love & Gymnastics

Domnul Celzani se trezește îndrăgostit nebunește de o gimnastă amazoniană cu care împarte un bloc de apartamente. În ciuda înșelăciunilor locuitorilor lor, el își găseșt...

The Astonishing Life of August March

In this enchanting first novel, an irrepressibly optimistic oddball orphan is thrust into the wilds of postwar New York City after an extraordinary childhood in

Fridays At Enricos

Taken from a recently discovered manuscript published posthumously, this story provides a snapshot of San Francisco and Portland in the early 1950s and 1960s as

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 White Lama: The First Step

Written by The Metabarons creator and film director, Alexandro Jodorowsky (EI Topo, Holy Mountain), this mystical adventure chronicles the physical, mystical, and emotion...

A Brief Guide to Oz (Going Over the Rainbow)

Presents a guide to the many versions and incarnations of Oz on screen, on stage, and in literature, while looking at the novels by Baum

John Broadley's Books

John Broadley's Books will reveal to the world an artist of astonishing imagination and skill, and one with the playfulness of the great English print-makers

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

The Assassin of Verona

Veneția, 1586. William Shakespeare este deghizat în administrator al ambasadorului englez. El și prietenii lui, Oldcastle și Hemminges, dețin un secret mortal: numele sp...

Last Day I Saw Her

Janey's instincts tell her that she must finally find out what happened to Hattie, but life is already complicated enough: she's struggling with motherhood, a

The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes

In vein of Daisy Jones & The Six and Everything I Never Told You, this debut novel probes the dark side of fame after a

The Twilight Hour

Eleanor Lee has lived a fiercely independent existence for over ninety years, but now it's time to tidy her life away - books, photographs, paintings,