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Nick Hornby...Giles Smith...Helen Fielding...Roddy Doyle...Irvine Welsh...Zadie Smith...Dave Eggers...Robert Harris...Melissa Bank...Patrick Marber...Colin Firth...John O'Farrell Compiled by bestselling author Nick Hornby and featuring brand new stories from the hottest writers on both...

In the best-selling tradition of Pillow Talk (over 9,000 copies sold), this steamy anthology features the dazzling talents of favourite lesbian authors such as Ruthann Robson and Jane Futcher, as...

A gorgeously illustrated collection of 19 classic Korean tales of the supernatural! From spine-chilling tales of shape-shifting beasts and vengeful demons to romantic stories of enchanted love, the 19 stories...

As she works her way from defiant teenager to reluctant career girl, growing older and getting smarter, Jane manoeuvres her way through love, sex, relationships, and the occasional perils of...

People are compelled to keep diaries for a great many different reasons. Although they are the most private form of writing, there have been few diarists who have not in...

"Lippman is a writing powerhouse." -- USA Today New York Times bestselling author and winner of every major prize awarded for crime fiction--including the Edgar(R), Anthony, Shamus, Agatha, and Nero...

Few journalists exemplify the creed 'without fear or favour' like Gideon Haigh. Shelf Life selects from twenty-one years of writing on myriad subjects by one of our clearest thinkers, sharpest...

Delight in the most wonderful time of the year with a collection of heartwarming and heartfelt Christmas classics in this beautiful, giftable Christmas collection, featuring stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa...

This is a literary survival guide to the middle years for women with teenage children, elderly parents and husbands in crisis. Take two women: One finds her high-flying career has...

The doctors used words like 'products of conception' and 'missed abortion' which stung and pulled at my heart. She will always be a baby to me. After the miscarriage I...

Many centuries ago, when the ancient gods ruled the world from Mount Olympus, a rich and powerful king ruled Sicily. His name was Dionysius and he killed and plundered without...

This is a collection of pithy pronouncements - aphorisms, bon mots and maxims from literature, recorded speech, light verse, proverbs, epitaphs and many other sources from the Bible to the...

Stories take us beyond the bounds of our own lives-into new worlds and new situations. Perhaps most importantly, they invite us into new minds. Through the eyes of the characters...

This book was written to improve the confidence of youths today and to prove the existence of optimism in the world. This book is a collection of recent stories written...

The third volume in an anthology series of the most original and exciting new plays for the nineties Europe, set in an international rail station linking several countries examines the...

Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme of Pirsig's thought:...

Four novellas by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, that once again show her to be unequalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human...

Talking to Strangers is a freshly curated collection of prose, spanning fifty years of work and including famous as well as never-before-published early writings, from Man Booker Prize-finalist Paul Auster....

This is an anthology of quotations from literary, religious and philsophical sources and is illustrated with original paintings and designs. The themes of the quotations follow a contemplative pattern from...

The Best Australian Essays 2009 presents a selection of the year's best non-fiction. With wonderful essays by Australia's finest writers, this diverse collection captures the year that was. Whether tackling...

The London theatres arguably were the central cultural institutions in England during the Romantic period, and certainly were arenas in which key issues of the time were contested. While existing...

"The West End may be starved of new work, but real drama flourishes at the Bush." - Michael Billington A celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Bush Theatre.Two new...

These exquisite twin novellas chronicle the difficult choices that reshape the lives of two very different families. In Ordinary Love , Smiley focuses on a woman's infidelity and the lasting,...

This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.

Best known for The Berlin Stories --the inspiration for the Tony and Academy Award-winning musical Cabaret --Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was a major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights...

From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI escort, yet still hoping for the return of his father 'missing in action', to the portrait of an...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe...

In a time of reckoning, this year's National Magazine Awards finalists and winners focus on abuse of power in many forms. Ronan Farrow's Pulitzer Prize-winning revelation of Harvey Weinstein's depredations...

Over half of the short stories written during this century have been writen by women. This book is an anthology of British women's short stories and authors represented include Rebecca...

In The Best Australian Essays 2014, Robert Manne assembles his picks of contemporary non-fiction writing. In The Best Australian Essays 2014, Robert Manne assembles his picks of contemporary non-fiction writing....

From more than ten thousand interviews, StoryCorps-the largest oral history project in the nation's history-presents a tapestry of American stories, told by the people who lived them to the people...

A Cosmological Manifesto This book consists of an essay, a credo, twelve poems and 205 aphorisms. The essay provides a personal, scholarly reflection on where Paul Monk started, forty years...