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The Norse discovery of America, five centuries before Columbus One of the most arresting stories in the history of exploration, these two Icelandic sagas tell of the discovery of America...

The Misanthrope, Moliere's richly sophisticated comic drama is accompanied in this volume by The Would-be Gentleman, another tale of a dangerously deluded and obsessive hero. Tartuffe dares to take on...

The most celebrated historical work in the English language Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL is one...

The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most...

Although on one level this book is a story in the Gothic horror tradition, it is also a philosophic novel influenced by the ideas of Godwin and Shelley and the...

Allan Baillie's popular historical fiction for teen readers - an exciting journey into China set against the background of Tiananmen Square. 'Dad was not here. The three of us were...

Mark and Benjamin Keen have not seen their father, Christopher, for 20 years. When he reappears hoping for a reconciliation, he has only begun to shed light on his shadowy...

One day John Mortimer is checking a reference in his "Complete Shakespeare" when the page falls open in the middle of "Henry VI, Part II" and his eye catches hold...

One winter morning Lorimer Black goes to keep a business appointment and finds a hanged man. This is just the start of what turns out to be a horrendous period...

This text presents three recently discovered public lectures from the 60s in which Feynman addresses a non-scientific audience. Feynman attempts to engage an audience with the questions that most inspired...

Do you enjoy being the center of attention? Are you more interested in facts and figures than in theories? Do you make to-do lists? Would you rather be truthful or...

This collection of writings reflects Suu Kyi's hopes and fears for her people, her concern about the need for international cooperation, and gives poignant and humourous reminiscences as well as...

This book looks at the Battle of the Somme, which was planned as "The Big Push" that would at last break the long stalemate on the Western Front in World...

This volume of "The Penguin History of Literature" is devoted to its medium, the English language. A first section considers present-day English, its sounds, grammar, vocabulary and stylistic varieties. A...

This book shows readers how to have a healthy, fulfilling sex life and illuminates the power that sex has to heal a wide range of physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual...

From the bestselling author of the Harry Hole series, comes this short, sharp, shock of a thriller. Blood on Snow- Drugs. Death. Murder. Revenge - and a hitman with two...

From the bestselling author of the Harry Hole series, comes this short, sharp, shock of a thriller. Blood on Snow- Drugs. Death. Murder. Revenge - and a hitman with two...

Longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize- a topical London love story from the brilliant, prize-winning A. L. Kennedy LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Jon is 59 and divorced-...

Tender yet wickedly intelligent summer reading from Anne Tyler's naughty little sister What if every woman in town suddenly went on strike? For the people of Stellar Plains, the staging...

A book about family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland's Atlantic coast, from the Booker Prize-winner. Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted...

DS Catrin Price has been told to stay away. But sometimes you have to break the rules to find out the truth. The second book in the haunting new crime...

Not all angels are heaven sent. I am one such angel, and I have come to pass judgement on the living, and the dead... A report of a rare and...

Sharp witty tale about the sexual politics of a marriage from New York Times bestseller and author of the acclaimed The Interestings A Husband. A Wife. Their Secret Joe and...

A brilliant heart-tugging romance by one of our best-known and most beloved historical novelists. When Fate and a chivalrous impulse combine to saddle Viscount Desford with a friendless homeless waif...

A WONDERFUL NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING TRADITION OF NICHOLAS SPARKS AND ANITA SHREVE They were brothers and they knew each other better than they had ever known anybody, and when...

'Extremely funny... As clever as Alasdair Gray, as elegant as Jeff Torrington, as passionate as James Kelman, Welsh has got it all' Tibor Fischer Roy Strang is engaged in a...

A unique blend of fiction and memoir, about hunting, marriage and Africa, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell To Arms. The book opens on the day Hemingway's close...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHORS OF WE ARE FAMILY Friends. You can't live with them - and you can't live without them. Or so Matt is discovering. His best mate is getting...

Rejacketed re-issue tephen Hawking is perhaps one of the most well-known scientists of our day. His discoveries on black holes and cosmology have been hailed as opening up a new...

Rejacketed re-issue + b = c .Most of us have heard about Pythagoras through his theorem on right-angled triangles, having been taught that the square on the hypotenuse is equal...

'Roland Barthes' final book - less a critical essay than a suite of valedictory meditations - is his most beautiful, and most painful' Observer Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge...

Robin knew Paul wasn't perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true. In the heady strangeness of Morocco, he...