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Ideas of separation and divorce--the geographical divides of borders, the separation of the dead and the living, the movement from childhood to adulthood, and the end of relationships--drive this poetry...

In the pages of this encyclopaedic book is everything anyone could ever want to know about the World Cup, from the first finals in Uruguay in 1930 to the last...

One of the most important channeled works to appear in recent years elucidates the important transition time our planet now faces.

The Popes have been responsible for setting the sexual agenda for almost a quarter of the world's population for centuries. It was St Paul, scholars say, who set up the...

In the Words of the Emperor is a startling insight into the life and deeds of Napoleon. Derived from Napoleon's extensive correspondence and his other writings and recorded speech, this...

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Research Professor of English, Sussex University. During his tragically short life, Stephen Crane gained fame as a vividly distinctive writer. His...

"Banjo" Paterson may be regarded as Australia's national poet. The apparent simplicity of the ballad form is balanced by many syllabic irregularities and ingenuity of stress and internal rhyme. His...

Shelley's short, prolific life produced some of the most memorable and well-known lyrics of the Romantic period. But he was also the most radical writer in the English literary tradition...

Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville was the consultant for Burke's Royal Families of the World, and his major work was the Chronology of World History. This specially commissioned Book of the Kings...

'The Diary of a Nobody' is based on a series of amusing columns written between 1888-9 for Punch, and published as a novel in 1892 with illustrations by Weedon. The...

Chosen and Introduced by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury and Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain. This specially commissioned selection of Conrad's short stories...

When Dan and Una stage a performance of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' in a fairy ring, they are astonished by the appearance of Puck in person. He explains that he...

'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!' Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck. When young Jim Hawkins finds...

'As You Like It' is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its boldly implausible plot generates a profusion of love-lorn men, a resourceful...

'Othello' has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare's tragedies. This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona's love for Othello, the...

An anguished god surveys a world stricken by fundamentalism in these powerful poems by a writer whose cultural experience spans three countries: Pakistan, the country of her birth, and Britain...

Young Bond meets Alex Rider and Cherub in this brilliantly written, fast-paced spy action thriller. All credibly delivered from somebody who knows all about counter-intelligence... Several deaths have occurred amongst...

Meet Remedy: a petite befreckled blonde living in Paris and working at A La Mode On-Line. Here she lusts fruitlessly after photographers, knocks out articles on tankinis and racoon-fur trims,...

Iseult 'Izzy' Mulcahy is a mother and a woman in love, a writer and a thinker - and the last person anyone would expect to commit murder ...After being charged...

Discover that books can take you places you'd never believe... from Waterstones Prize-shortlisted Robert Starling. Astrid's family has just moved in to the mouse hole in the bookshop on Maple...

When Mr Benn visits the little fancy dress shop, he enters a fantastical world of adventure as if by magic... Today, Mr Benn swaps his trademark black bowler hat and...

"Witty, warm and wonderfully bold." Elle McNicoll"Everything I could possibly want in a book." Laura Ellen AndersonFall under the spell of Witchspark. A magical adventure series perfect for fans of...

When the house at the end of the lane burned down, none of the townspeople knew what happened. A tragedy, they called it. Poor Rita Frost and her ward, Bevan,...

'UTTERLY,' the waves were whispering, 'UTTERLY...' It was always at sundown they were seen. In that twilight hour, when the walls between the worlds grew thin, strange things might slip...

The handsome but susceptible Dorian Gray is pulled into the hedonism of London's high society, where he falls under the pernicious influence of Lord Henry Wotton. Oscar Wilde's nightmarish tale...

'Extraordinary. It is about death, but I can think of few books which have such life. It shows us what love is.' Max Porter, author of GRIEF IS THE THING...

A retelling of 'The Ugly Duckling' from A Fairy Tale Revolution, a series designed to remix and revive our favourite stories Kamila Shamsie retells 'The Ugly Duckling'. A Fairy Tale...

Cinderella with a strong feminist twist, based on the life and work of pioneer German animator and film director Lotte Reiniger. Lotte doesn't believe in happy endings. She lives with...

A glorious sequel to Good Dog McTavish, this endearing story is packed with Meg Rosoff's quirky humour and astute eye for both the details of canine-human dynamics and the oddities...

When teen social media influencer Anton Frazer stages a live-streamed, citywide game of Tag where the prize is to become one of his live-in personal assistants, his fans go wild....

A charming and candid cat-alogue of cats, to celebrate Mums ... and their mogs! Mums and Mogs is a joyful and celebratory picture book featuring lots of different mums with...

A hilarious middle-grade HEIST series that's out of this world. Meet the Heist squad. AKA a motley crew of hot-headed misfits who HATE each other but LOVE chocolate. But then...

Two things that are true and one that is a lie: I think my mother is dead and alive. I think if I work hard I will be very good...

One will lose his mind. One will pay. One will agonise. And one will die. Duy, Phong, Minh, and Edmond have been best friends since childhood. Now, as young men...

Ollie has a mystery to solve, and Bea suspects FOWL play! Ollie is OWL grown up and doesn't play with stuffed toys - but then where did Bea's toy go?...

Aslan is fearless! But when his cousins get a new dog, he doesn't feel so brave. A warm and relatable picture book for anyone who's ever felt stuck by their...