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Ireland, World War One. Dashing Harry Heegan leads his football team to victory, arriving home in swaggering celebration before he grabs his kit and heads for the trenches. A nightmare...

Torn between army politics and the love of his soldiers on the front line, a legendary leader spirals out of control. Inspired by Sophocles' classical play, Our Ajax draws on...

It's not just that rich people don't know what they've got. They don't even know what they throw away. India is beginning to prosper. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding...

Kleinzahler's poetry is, as ever, concerned with permeability: voices, places, the real and the dreamed, the present and the past, colliding and intersecting and spilling over into each other. Whether...

When Owen Underwood's family move to Barrow, it's because there's nowhere safer in the Valleys - and safety is very important. Especially when the threat of tornadoes, and giant bears,...

Bee is an orphan who lives with a travelling carnival. Every day she endures taunts for the birthmark on her cheek - though her beloved Pauline, the only person who...

Evie's shattered ribs have been a secret for the last four years. Now she has found the strength to tell her adoptive parents, and the physical traces of her past...

Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from Queen Victoria's accession in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In this celebrated masterwork she...

Journalist, think-tank report writer and mother Harriet Sergeant befriended a teenage gang when she was researching a report on why so many black Caribbean and white working class boys are...

Jamie McKendrick's sixth collection starts from the far flung ('out there' is the nothing - or the something - of outer space), ascertaining the mood of an observer on Uranus,...

Kimberly Clark was born to the sound of cackling witches in 1984. Having moved to London to follow her heart's dream, the sweet-but-slow Stevie, she soon tires of him and...

In the last months of the war, Hitler ordered the poisoning, blocking, and wrecking of all ports across Europe; the destruction of all industries, railroads, bridges, utilities supplies, archives and...

Kimberly Clark was born to the sound of cackling witches in 1984. Having moved to London to follow her heart's dream, the sweet-but-slow Stevie, she soon tires of him and...

I can't escape it. I can't forget it. And I can't begin again. Bill Maitland, a middle aged lawyer, struggles to avoid the harsh truths of his life. As those...

In Winter Journal, Auster presents the abandonment of the family by his father from his mother's point of view: her struggle as a single mother; love found again late in...

Christopher Reid's new collection is a quartet of works for voice, opening with the brisk and brightly coloured monologue of Professor Winterthorn - recently widowed, soon to be retired, who...

Some of the finest poems are short. Whether it's Edward Lear's limericks or the fragments of Sappho, brevity is very often the soul of a poet's wit: what would be...

I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain . So...

In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical church in Victorian England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed...

If the poetic sequence is the main mode of Maggot, it certainly isn't your father's poetic sequence. Taking as a starting point W.B. Yeats's remark that the only fit topics...

Harry Hill's unexpurgated diary of his year promises to do for the celebrity memoir what the Hadron Collider has done for particle acceleration. This Samuel Pepys meets Katie Price (aka...

Norway, 1881. Mrs. Alving is ecstatic when her son Osvald visits after many years abroad. He has returned to celebrate the heroic memory of his dead father. But within hours...

Fresh out of college and uncertain how to proceed with life, the narrator of Ben Markovits' Playing Days finds himself drifting towards a career that once obsessed his father -...

A thrilling friend of her parents casts a spell over a young girl. Susie, he's not just an individual like you and me - he works for the government ....

2002. A young American woman stumbles one morning from the forest outside Berlin - hands dirty, clothes torn. She can remember nothing of the night. She returns to the life...

An international group of observers arrives in a West African country to oversee and rubber stamp its first democratic election. New voters queue in their thousands, but a senior member...

Whose tramp persona is famous the world over, even to those who have never seen his films . An everyman who expressed the defiant spirit of freedom, Charlie Chaplin was...

Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. Each house has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths, and plenty of laughter in between. Today, through each...

Fifteen years ago Una and Ray had a relationship. They haven t set eyes on each other since. Now, years later, she s found him again . . . Blackbird...

Gerald Sibleyras' Le Vent des Peupliers will premiere at London's Wyndham Theater in October 2005 in a version by Tom Stoppard entitled Heroes starring Richard Griffiths, Ken Stott and John...

From the heathered fells and lowlands of Cumbria with their history of smouldering violence, to the speed and heat of summer London, to an eerily still lake in the Finnish...

In this remarkable study, now an established classic which has remained in print since its first publication in 1971, Charles Rosen surveys the language of the music of the classical...

In the days when Australians called England 'home', Michael Blakemore, an eager young man en route to RADA, made the long sea voyage to 1950s London to find himself in...

Since 1945, the European states which had previously glamourised their military elites, and made going to war the highest expression of patriotism, have renounced violence as a way of settling...

Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, hysterical diva vocals and synthesized...

Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and unrest. Rivals threatened her reign; England was a Protestant island, isolated in a sea of Catholic countries. Spain...

In 2004 the London Symphony Orchestra celebrates its hundredth birthday. The centenary finds the orchestra acclaimed as one of the best in the world, making music with the most charismatic...

London at midnight on New Year's Eve. Artie Cohen realizes something is horribly wrong with his long-time girlfriend, Lily Hanes. Three days later, a call takes Artie to Paris. Lily...

Solondz offers two separate stories ('Fiction' and 'Non-fiction') that unfold amid the sadly criminal terrain of college and high school. In the first, a young female student has a stranger-than-fiction...

An elegant and multi-layered novel, drawing comparisons with Memoirs of a Geisha and The English Patient, The Red Thread is rich, moving and unforgettable. Set in contemporary Shanghai, it is...

Gunter Grass's international fame as a novelist has tended to obscure his achievements in poetry, but his first book was a collection of poems and he has returned faithfully to...

With the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Barbara Kingsolver explores her trademark themes of family, community and the natural world. Defiant, funny and courageously honest,...

The book titled Mr Vertigo by the author Paul Auster. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This volume brings together two long poems. 'Lines of Desire' tells the story of an individual in crisis, while 'Joe Soap' combines narrative and lyric forms to trace a historical...

The book titled The Second Russian Revolution by the author Angus Roxburgh. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From the author of BETRAYAL comes a glamorous new tale of secrets, money, lies and deceit in the glittery world of Las Vegas We all have our dreams. But how...

A Better Way to Better Behavior Karen Pryor's clear and entertaining explanation of behavioral training methods made Don't Shoot the Dog! a bestselling classic. Now this revised edition presents more...

Are we all doomed to repeat our parents' mistakes? A biting new comic novel from Anne Fine Guilt is in the eye of the beholder ... When her cold and...