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Ten short plays by Caryl Churchill, written for stage, radio and TV, selected and introduced by the author. This collection of short plays by one of our leading playwrights opens...

When Rhonwen discovers her husband is spending his early retirement playing bowls and conducting an affair, her response is coldly murderous. But the relief of retribution is replaced by a...

Follies are buildings which are fun-loving, engaging, whimsical. The result of 20 years of joint research, this book offers a guide to Britain"s follies and their close relatives, grottoes and...

A collection of five plays. Here is the suffragette Cicely Hamilton's "Diana of Dobson" (1908), and Clemence Dane's daringly theatrical "Will Shakespeare - An Invention" (1921). Margaret Kennedy's adaptation of...

Firm but always fair, Karen Homer lays down the law and makes sure you hever have to commit another fashion faux-pas. Discover why you can never have too many white...

With an Introduction and Notes by Laurence Lerner, formerly Professor of English at the University of Sussex. John Milton (1608-74) has a strong claim to be considered the greatest English...

This text looks at what we really know about shamans in Siberia and elsewhere. It traces the history of shamans, describes local variations and different types of shamanism, and explores...

This pocket guide introduces the sky for beginners to stargazing, describing what is visible with the naked eye and small optical instruments, and features charts produced by the world's leading...

Six tells the complete story of the service's birth and early years, including the tragic, untold tale of what happened to Britain's extensive networks in Soviet Russia between the wars....

'Oh, to be seventy again' - Georges Clemenceau Throw caution to the wind and laugh in the face of maturity as you soak up these capricious quips and quotes from...

'To be or not to be?' may be The Question, but it is not the only one. Hamlet, Part II, for example, answers a question about Hamlet that has plagued...

The last thing you need when you're on holiday is to become involved in a murder. For most people, that would easily qualify as the holiday from hell. For George...

Ian Buruma's grandparents, Bernard Schlesinger and Winifred Regensburg (Winnie & Bun), wrote to each other regularly over their sixty years together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bernard...

Few others have determined our understanding of the Third Reich as Joachim Fest. Fierce and intransigent, German born Fest was a relentless interrogator of his nation's modern history. His analysis,...

A thrilling play about the race to be the first woman in space. Renee Coburg is a gritty, glamorous aviator, the fastest, highest, bravest woman in the world. Jo Green...

When white secondary school teacher Amanda is pushed to the ground by black student Jason, she's reluctant to report him as she knows exclusion could condemn him to a future...

Jez Butterworth's hugely acclaimed, prize-winning play - a comic, contemporary vision of life in England's green and pleasant land. On St George's Day, the morning of the local country fair,...

1910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life,...

Miyuki Woodward, lover of pints and instant food, has been taking a holiday to the same seaside town for eight years. She is made to feel at home, at least...

A damaged detective and a brutal serial killer collide in this nail-biting thriller debut. Detective Inspector Damen Brook thinks he's left his past behind him in London. But it seems...

Beware the Black Widow. To love her is to die... The spine-tingling thriller about a depraved female serial killer from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author. Jordan...

'Scott, it s Rebecca. I need you.' After years of silence, Texan lawyer Scott Fenney receives a devastating phonecall from his ex-wife. She has been accused of murdering her boyfriend,...

When Conrad Harrison impulse-buys a big old house in Wisconsin, his wife Jo doesn t share his enthusiasm, reluctant at the idea of leaving their LA life - so Conrad...

Sean O Donnell, small-time villain and family man, walked out of his home nineteen years ago and hasn t been heard of since. Now his daughter, Iris, has returned to...

Andy Prescott is the most laid-back young lawyer in Austin, Texas. Specialising in traffic law, he operates from a small room above a ramshackle tattoo parlour. He rides a trail...

The new DCI Lorimer novel. When Chief Inspector Lorimer returns from his holiday on the island of Mull, he feels a welcome sense of calm. But it doesn't last long....

In April 2008, the world watched in horror as the news of Josef Fritzl made worldwide headlines. But for one British woman the story was not the stuff of unimaginable...

At nine years old, Monica Holloway develops a fascination with the local funeral home. Small wonder, with a father who drives his Ford pick up with a Kodak movie camera...

Tally lives in a world where your sixteenth birthday brings aesthetic perfection: an operation which erases all your flaws, transforming you from an 'Ugly' into a 'Pretty'. She is on...

When, despite all his training and twenty-five years experience as a private detective, Phil Kramer is shot dead on a quiet suburban south California street his wife and partners think...

Dr Bill Brockton is hard at work on a troubling new case. A young man's battered body has been found in nearby Chattanooga, and it's up to the talented Dr...

This brilliant new book from the author of Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch explores the tyranny of positive thinking, and offers a history of how it came to...

Are there any wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wilderness? Robert Macfarlane embarks on a wonder voyage in search...

Away is the extraordinary story of an accidental hero, young Lillian Leyb. Her family murdered in a Russian pogrom, in which her three-year-old daughter Sophie vanished, Lillian comes to America...

David Peace concludes his Red Riding Quartet and once again the Ripper is the backdrop for a roller-coaster of fear and corruption. Nineteen Eighty Three's three intertwining storylines see the...