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A game between a woman's father and husband simmers and boils into scalding danger; a daughter creates an elaborate feast for her grieving mother; a solar eclipse burns emotions and...

When Lord Jim at Home, was first published in 1973, it was described as 'squalid and startling', 'nastily horrific', and a 'monstrous parody' of upper- middle class English life. It...

Take What You Need traces the parallel lives of Jean and her beloved but estranged stepdaughter, Leah, who's sought a clean break from her rural childhood. In Leah's urban life...

Presently, on the sea floor, I began to find lost things; toraise the moods that were mine when I was fourteenyears old, sitting in this garden, writing my Anthology ofHates....

Green shoots, green leaves, California green vesicles be-neath the California green-brown mud. A hormonal transition is a new start, but it is not a new start like a shoot emerges...

'If you've ever tasted the after-rain clay dirt on a Kansassummer afternoon, or if you've ever secretly wanted to,you may understand why I was often tempted to eat astick of...

Admired by W. H. Auden as one of the greatest American writers, M. F. K Fisher never focuses on just the food set before her. Instead, with unfailingly elegant prose,...

Read the tales of Robbie the Tiger, Rose the Hippo, Libby the Dog and Davey the Elephant as they learn all about different feelings. Read how each character manages in...

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Into the Darkest Corner comes a delicious Victorian crime novel based on a real murder. The Murder of Harriet Monckton is based on...

Lou is a shy and diligent librarian at the local Heritage Institute. She works monotonous and dusty hours long into the night but she has found nothing - and no...

Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms, a slow and painstaking process. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside...

Vivian Gornick's writing has always explored the hard truths of existence: the nature of human loneliness, and the struggle to love, work, and connect. In these seven seminal essays Gornick...

'Dear Michele, she wrote, I'm writing principally to tell you that your father is sick. Go visit him. He says he hasn t seen you for days.' Michele is the...

'As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones...' So begins the titular essay in Natalia...

Friendship blossoms between an enigmatic girl and a whisky distiller's granddaughter on a remote Scottish island. It's the 1950s, and Lorrie is unimpressed when her family moves to the remote...

I cannot mourn, for I have lived a life of mountain air and cherry blossoms, steel, and honour. An achingly beautiful story of courage, loss and friendship. And these are...

A master illustrator helps sets the record straight in this picture book telling the other side of the Rumpelstilskin story For years, people have had the wrong idea about that...

Christmas seems to offer few joys to the four daughters of the March household. With their army chaplain father away at the Civil War, times are hard for Meg, Jo,...

Beginning with her first food memory - the greyish-pink fuzz of her grandmother's strawberry jam - M.F.K. Fisher takes us on a voyage of gastronomical discovery, from her childhood in...

Revelations of the Secret Service was first published in 1911. The author, William le Queux (pronounced 'Q'), was one of the first creators of the spy story. A journalist-turned-author, he...

Fetus ejection reflex, milk ejection reflex, sperm ejection reflex, orgasmogenic cocktail...These are examples of terms used by Michel Odent in his study of the ecstatic/orgasmic states associated with different episodes...

Delivering two 38-year-old Mississippi river tugboats halfway around the world from Bahrain to Trinidad would not be every ship master's dream employment. However, for Captain David Creamer, the seven-week voyage...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was not only an exceptionally prolific and versatile writer. As a minister of state in the small duchy of Sachsen-Weimar he had to deal with...

Visionaries of the 20th Century brings together the lives and works of 100 great men and women who offered inspiration, hope and healing. The 20th century was marked by wars,...

World boxing is in crisis. After decades of corruption and abuse, governing bodies now successfully collude in kickbacks and payoffs while many of the greatest boxers are left destitute and...

The catalogue is arranged in three parts: firstly, a biographical section, incorporating portraits and records of events of both personal and national significance; secondly, a section drawn from Queen Elizabeth's...

Nigel Tranter's gift for bringing Scottish history to life is demonstrated in this lively book which details 45 of the nation's castles with associated tales and traditions. With a broad...

Travel to one of the most beautiful cities in the world in the company of its finest writers. Walk the mysterious nighttime streets of Prague with Franz Kafka and Jaroslav...

What is a Dreamwalker? They are the rare few who, as Mary Summer Rain describes them, are "led by the spirit, ' have "shed the yoke of desire and self-want,"...

An extraordinarily warm and funny book about a big brother's courage and inventiveness when he discovers his parents have been run over by a truck - or have they? 'It's...

Janice Raymond offers a vision of female friendship that is as exhilarating as it is controversial. In this feminist classic, she explores the many manifestations of friendship between women, including...

For Mara, mother of four, and sole provider for her family, life has never been easy. In her community women carry a heavy burden as the world changes around them....

Five women - all HIV-positive - tell their diverse stories with honesty and determination. These powerful narratives reveal how each woman approached her predicament and the inner qualities she drew...

Of interest to ages 15 years and up and especially appropriate for use in secondary and undergraduate studies, this unique book does not try to define leadership, but instead encourages...

Lisa Saffron is the acknowledged UK expert on self-insemination, runs parenting workshops and writes a column in "Diva" magazine about lesbian families. Now, in one unique volume, Saffron uses new...

Grampian Battlefields covers a time-span of 1,661 years. It forms an exercise in historical reasoning an d historical imagination. '

In a society of the future, the government restricts its citizens' rights and punishes people who disagree with its regime by sending them to work camps. Six years ago, Lorna's...

A month-by-month, easy-to-follow guide on what to do - and when - in your garden from the number one trusted name in gardening products, Yates. With clearly set out and...

I was walking down the road, and I saw a donkey ... hee-haw! And he only had three legs. He was a wonky donkey ... In this funny, cumulative song,...

Eat well, spend less is Sophie Gray's Destitiute Gourmet philosophy. And that's what the recipes in this book will help you do. Sophie has making gorgeous food and spending very...

The sea may be our highway, but it can charge appallingly high tolls. Our ancestors rightly feared death and destruction at sea. In the last 200 years over 2000 ships...