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McAnally had sworn his oath to the IRA. But he quit and went south into the Republic, until they came for him, made him fire the deadly rocket launcher one...

A British cabinet minister is gunned down on a London street by an IRA assassin. In the wake of a national outcry, the authorities must find the hitman. But the...

Gus Peake should have kept his job and stayed at home, but an old family friendship draws him to the remote wastes of Northern Iraq and to a savage, forgotten...

My head was forced under and I swallowed a mouthful of freezing river. I kicked back to the surface, forcing myself to breathe in through my nose, only to choke...

Nick Stone left the Special Air Service in 1988, soon after being involved in the shooting of three IRA terrorists in Gibraltar. Now working for British Intelligence on deniable operations,...

Who is Geronimo Stilton?That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, my books...

A precious ring is missing!The Thea Sisters are in Russia for a figure-skating championship! When their new friend is falsely accused of theft and barred from competing for the gold...

A captured cub!The Thea Sisters are in Kenya on a photo safari! The mouselets love exploring the magnificent landscape and learning about the animals on the reserve they're visiting. A...

An explosive adventure!The Thea Sisters are in Hawaii to compete in the international hula festival. The mouselets are having a great time - until they learn that the festival is...

A dishonest dance!The Thea Sisters are headed to Italy for a ballet competition! But the mouselets aren't just there to dance - they are there to investigate. A group is...

Who is monkeying around?When the Thea Sisters' friend Ashvin is in trouble they rush to his aid... in India! Ashvin has been working to return the monkeys living in the...

Mystery on a moving train!The Thea Sisters are boarding the famouse Orient Express for a journey from Paris to Istanbul! The train is a special trip to return a precious...

Where is the Secret City?When Paulina gets a phone call from home telling her that a friend is missing the Thea Sisters travel to Peru to help solve the mystery....

Who is Geronimo Stilton?That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, my books...

Financial Times Business Book of the Month Finalist for the 2016 Financial Times/ McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize A leading venture capitalist offers surprising revelations on who is going to be...

The husband and wife team behind the popular Earls Family Vlogs share their inspiring love story for the first time, revealing how an expedition to climb Mount Everest deepened their...

Consistently ranking in the top five educational faculties in the world, the Melbourne Graduate School of Education has achieved a status few would have predicted. This history of the first...

Australian cities are being remade by an unprecedented apartment boom with more apartments than houses being built in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. ""Homes in the Sky"" features many of the...

Charles Joseph La Trobe was Superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales and Victoria's first Lieutenant-Governor (1851;54). His administration, which coincided with the turbulent challenges of the...

Walter Burley Griffin (1876-1937) was a distinguished modernist American architect, landscape architect and town planner. His work attracted world-wide attention in 1912 when he won the international competition to design...

A Royal Passion is the first in-depth study of the Sun King as a patron of architecture. Surveying such monuments as the Louvre, Versailles, the Invalides, and other buildings that...

Queen Victoria's central importance to the era defined by her reign is self-evident, and yet it has been surprisingly overlooked in the study of Victorian culture. This collection of essays...

After Raphael is the first overview of sixteenth-century Italian painting to be published in over thirty years. Reevaluating the paintings of Raphael, Michelangelo, Pontormo, Bronzino and their followers in the...

George Sturt's frank and moving account of his trade as a wheelwright in the late nineteenth century offers a unique glimpse into the working lives of craftsmen in a world...

Derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, the present volume is an A-Z reference work containing over 4,200 entries covering the full range of literature in English...

The popular image of the traditional western city has usually been dominated by the cathedral, whose sheer size seemed to create an isolated physical and spiritual focal point. In this...

An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the beginning of time to the present day, Maps of Time is world history...

Humans have always been interested in their origins, but historians have been reluctant to write about the long stretches of time before the invention of writing. In fact, the deep...

Just when interest in this figure is at its height -- with the phenomenal success of the super-hit TV show Hercules -- here's an accessible retelling of Greek myths and...

The book titled On Foot: Guided Walks in England, France and the U.S. by the author Adam Nicolson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Celebrates the earliest history of the Islamic world's great textile traditions through fifty beautiful carpets and fragments. A wave of these beautiful textiles has reached the West since the turn...

Bernard Plossu has been called 'the most American of French photographers' by his friend and colleague Lewis Baltz. Although he is best known for his work in black and white,...

The House of Habsburg was one of the wealthiest and most politically influential dynasties in Europe, and many of its members were also great collectors and patrons of the arts....

Peter Stutchbury's award-winning architecture continues to stimulate a new and increasing awareness of the potential for designing with the Australian landscape and its environment. His architecture has attracted international acclaim...

Originally published in 1970 Living in Australia provided Boyd with an opportunity to describe his own approach to design. This new edition, co-published with the Robin Boyd Foundation, includes new...

Cities of Hope Remembered / Rehearsed tells the story of a life lived through architecture and design. Drawing on the success of the critically acclaimed Cities of Hope , this...

Everywhere in the world, tiles add colour and decoration to the facades and interiors of buildings. Both functional and decorative, and found in a multitude of shapes, sizes and designs...

Le Corbusier is widely acknowledged as the most influential architect of the twentieth century. As extensively researched and documented as his works are, however, they have never been exhaustively surveyed...

Established on the global stage by the international success and influence of architects such as Peter Zumthor and Herzog & de Meuron, today's generation of architects in Switzerland draws on...

'Every picture tells a story' - but for many of us the subjects and themes of the great paintings of Western art are something of a mystery. The Gallery Companion...

An architectural historian and practising urban designer aims to raise understanding of traditional buildings in the Arab-Islamic world, and reveals the problems faced by historic cities in the light of...

The wall paintings and reliefs of ancient Egyptian tombs and temples record a continuity of customs and beliefs over nearly 3000 years. Even the artistic style of the scenes seems...

The Gothic Revival , writes Michael Lewis, 'is more than a fashion craze for pointed arches and pinnacles'. During its years of greatest influence, it subjected every aspect of art,...

From prehistory to postmodernism, the arts in Spain have occupied a powerful and influential role in the development of Western art. This wide-ranging and incisive overview traces the history of...

Acting, direction, stagecraft, theatre architecture and design, above all the whole extraordinary evolution of dramatic literature - here is a history of theatre, worldwide in scope and ranging from its...

The ancient city of Angkor in Cambodia has fascinated scholars and visitors alike since its rediscovery in the mid-19th century. All are wonderstruck by the beauty and multiplicity of the...