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Bonsai is the story of Julio and Emilia, two young Chilean students who, seeking truth in great literature, find each other instead. Like all young couples,they lie to each other,...

Edinburgh, 2014: N. and L., two writer friends arrive from London, a city they believe killed L.'s brother. Every day they try to get to the library to write their...

In 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torncountry, saying goodbye to Laila, the love of his life, without knowing when...

Emergency is a novel about the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth. Stuck at home alone under lockdown, awoman recounts her 1990s childhood in rural Yorkshire. She watches a...

Alaa Abd el-Fattah is arguably the most high-profile political prisoner in Egypt, if not the Arab world, rising to international prominence during the revolution of 2011. A fiercely independent thinker...

Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown...

In Immanuel , winner of the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize Matthew McNaught explores his upbringing in an evangelical Christian community in Winchester. As McNaught moved away from the faith...

Every living thing has two bodies. To be an animal is to be in possession of a physical body, a body which can eat, drink and sleep; it is also...

Part-essay and part-memoir, This Little Art is a manifesto for the practice of literary translation. Taking her experience translating Roland Barthes' lectures at the College de France as her starting...

The essay is a venerable form that may well be the genre of the future. It has its origins in a mode of self-examination and even self-obsession - 'it is...

The book titled Great Explorers by the author Roderic Owen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The third in the 'Fury' trilogy, following on from the bestsellers Pacific Fury and Anzac Fury. Shanghai is a city defined by war. The city and its armed struggles were...

This biography looks beyond Luciano Pavarotti's public image to reveal details of his life and character that only a wife could know. Adua Pavarotti paints a candid and intimate portrait...

The book titled The Rape of Tutankhamun by the author John Romer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Untouchable: Robert De Niro - Unauthorised by the author Andy Dougan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled King of Misrule by the author Barbara Paul. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The battle on Sunday 18th June 1815, near Waterloo, Belgium was to be Napoleon's greatest triumph - but it ended in one of the greatest military upsets of all time....

Examines the story behind the music - of the small boy spurned by his fellows at school and pushed by his father to succeed where he had failed, of the...

Great Escapes brings together extraordinary stories of daring escapes from prison, prisoner-of-war camps and other places of incarceration and confinement, drawn from every period of history and from every corner...

Francoise, an Australian photographer, comes to Bhopal to bear witness to the city's continuing trauma. There she meets Naga a Tibetan refugee whose family died in a disaaster twenty years...

The beauty and meaning behind his poetry and prose has meant that Shakespeare's work has lived on throughout history long after his death. We still fall in love and become...

Angels, or angel-like beings, have appeared in art from around the world for millennia. Though intrinsically a religious concept, they seem to also represent a universal ideal of purity, benevolence...

The prospect of public speaking is daunting and often frightening for many people. Despite this, most students and professionals must make public presentations in one capacity or another over the...

This guide covers over 600 species from predatory dinosaurs to primitive amphibians, from giant armoured fish to mammoths and sabertooths. Accompanying each illustration are biographies of the creatures, detailing how...

A stellar introduction to the Universe and the invisible forces that hold it together. Blast off to investigate the mysteries of the Universe: from blazing stars to the unreachable depths...

Stroke the sweet little lamb better in this touchy-feely book. Take care of a sweet fluffy lamb in this adorable touch-and-feel book. Stroke the little lamb's velvet nose better after...

A super-friendly and interactive introduction to help prepare young children for the world of school. What is a school? Why do we have to go there? How will we get...

A big book of themed puzzles with fascinating facts about real and mythical monsters of the sea. Children will be excited to discover facts about the biggest, fastest and deadliest...

Watch Santa as he prepares for Christmas, with lots of sparkly stickers. Join Santa as he checks his list, packs his sleigh and flies all around the world with his...

Bricks and Mortar is the story of the sex trade in a big city in the former GDR, from just before 1989 to the present day, charting the development of...

'I like eating cold, clammy wraps from big pharmacies that are open late and sell just a few foods like protein bars and powders.' Flower is a book of realistic...

Blending memories and family myths, Mary McCarthy takes us back to the 1920s, when she was orphaned into a world of relations as colourful, potent and mysterious as the Catholic...

'The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city - the whole world - with a person you may never have met.' These words set the...

In her extraordinary non-fiction debut, Jacqueline Feldman tells the story of Le Bloc, a legendary squat situated at the far edge of Paris, near where the banlieue begins. Opened in...

'If there's any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening,' says Jon Fosse in A Silent Language , the lecture he delivered...

On a journey through the south-east of Hungary some years back, Esther Kinsky finds herself in a small town in the Alfoeld, the Great Hungarian Plain. Resignation and a glorification...

Max Reddick, a novelist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter, has spent his career struggling against the riptide of race in America. Now terminally ill, he has nothing left to lose. An...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne...

To research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western France. Determined to capture...

Selda Heddle, a famously reclusive composer, is found dead in a snowy field near her Cornish home. She was educated at Agnes's Hospice for Acoustically Gifted Children, which for centuries...

How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about...

A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustin Fernandez Mallo's Nocilla Trilogy - made up of the novels Nocilla Dream , Nocilla Experience and Nocilla Lab - is a project for...

In May and September 1976, two severe earthquakes ripped through north-eastern Italy, causing severe damage to the landscape and its population.About a thousand people died under the rubble, tens of...

Heralding his outstanding return to young adult fiction, Keith Gray captures the subtle agonies of teen life in this compelling, bittersweet tale of rivalry and friendship. Longlisted for the Carnegie...

An unusual visitor brings light to the life of a lighthouse keeper's daughter in this stunning mythical adventure, from the bestselling author of the Cogheart series. When the lighthouse no...

Her Ladyship greets Miss Daisy with excitement. She's due to retire and wants to have some fun. "Let's drive round the world", she declares. 'Not with me', thinks Miss Daisy,...

It's bad enough when your brother is possessed by a demon. It's even worse when the only person who might be able to help turns you into a toad on...