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Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret...

R. J. Hollingdale's translation conveys the simple elegance of the original. Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate. But the...

Goethe's famous account of his time and travels in Italy In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe set out on...

Geoffrey of Monmouth's history - or legend - of the earliest kings of Britain Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm...

In his introduction, Dennis Walder discusses Dickens's social commentary and view of London, and places the Sketches in the tradition of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century reportage. Charles Dickens's first published book,...

A PEOPLE'S TRAGEDY won pretty much every prize for which it was eligible This tremendously attractive, ambitious, dizzying book is in every way a worthy successor to Figes' bestselling A...

The great modern biography of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire Octavian was a young soldier training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar's brutal assassination - and discovered...

Winner of the Wolfson History Prize 'Of the "Great Powers" that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one to have vanished ... Iron...

Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped...

If you were enthralled by Capote's In Cold Blood, read The Executioner's Song WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGAN In the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then...

A mesmerising, epic, utterly involving masterpiece from Haruki Murakami A mesmerising, epic, utterly involving masterpiece from Haruki Murakami The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no...

The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, Jon Halliday. The most authoritative life of Mao ever written,...

Who was who in the classical world - from the clash of the Titans to the end of the world What were the twelve labours of Herakles? Why did Zeus...

An explosive new vision of geopolitics from two trail-blazing political scientists Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known....

What compels a person to set out to sea? A solo sailor explores the exhilarating and frightening world of the wide ocean Sailing on a boat by yourself out at...

The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in China, now in English for the first time Wang Xiaobo made his name as a...

An inspiring testament to China's dissident historians and activists, from the 1940s to the present A documentary filmmaker who uncovered a Mao-era death camp; an independent journalist who gave voice...

The epic story of one of the world's most enduring civilisations and empires. 'For who is so indifferent or indolent as not to wish to know by what means the...

A dark contemporary fractured fairy tale reimagining of The Little Mermaid by BookTok sensation Emily McIntire. From USA Today bestselling author Emily McIntire comes the final dark and delicious fractured...

An epic story of the nineteen-thirties' Depression which traces the story of one destitute family among the thousands who fled the Dust Bowl to the promise of California, THE GRAPES...

WITH A NEW EPILOGUE BY THE AUTHOR The most affecting, intelligent, important and constructive book on depression there has ever been - a key text by a New Yorker writer...

A young woman chosen as the crown prince's bride must travel to the royal palace to meet her new husband-but her world is shaken when she discovers the dark truth...

From the two-time winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Australian Book Review describes Kim Scott's True Country as ' a vital, often lyrical and always uncompromising novel.' Billy,...

China's past is key to the modern world. This nimble history of rogues, revolutions and rebellions can be read in a day, but will transform your view for a lifetime....

Secrets follow these sisters like shadows... 2024 NetGalley Must Read Debut Author "A nail-biting story of sisterhood, suspicion, and suspense. When She Was Me weaves together past and present seamlessly...

A wonderfully entertaining overview of all of psychology by a world expert Are you a human? Do you have a mind? Then this book is for you. Nothing is more...

A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. 'Destined to become a new classic' Chris Kraus A...

The legendary author of Behave shows that free will can not exist and explores the radical and disturbing implications What if free will is an illusion? In Determined one of...

Kohta Hirano's Hellsing is a worldwide phenomenon, a science-fiction-horror manga masterpiece of shocking intensity and wild ingenuity. Kohta Hirano's Hellsing is a worldwide phenomenon, a science-fiction-horror manga masterpiece of shocking...

The manga that spawned the worldwide hit anime, Kohta Hirano's Hellsing returns in new editions with revised translations and new graphic design. Hellsing blends gothic horror, violent action, and dark...

The manga that spawned the worldwide hit anime, Kohta Hirano's Hellsing returns in new editions with revised translations and new graphic design. Hellsing fuses gothic horror, violent action, and dark...

The manga that spawned the worldwide hit anime, Kohta Hirano's Hellsing returns in new editions with revised translations and new graphic design. Hellsing bonds gothic horror, violent action, and dark...

A Hellsing Organization strike team travels to Rio de Janeiro to seek-and destroy-the vampire-breeding Nazis of Millennium, only to find themselves labeled as international terrorists, a fiction perpetrated by Brazilian...

Kohta Hirano's Hellsing returns in a new edition with revised translation and new graphic design. The manga that spawned the worldwide hit anime, Hellsing blends gothic horror, violent action, and...

Kohta Hirano's Hellsing returns in a new edition with revised translation and new graphic design. The manga that spawned the worldwide hit anime, Hellsing blends gothic horror, violent action, and...

The haunting new standalone thriller from Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series. 'This will haunt you. Riveting!' Shari Lapena, author of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR 'The...

A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer...

An exciting, iconoclastic history of the final years of the Ottoman Empire, published for the centenaries of many significant WW1 events The Ottoman Endgame is the first, and definitive, single-volume...

This 20th anniversary edition celebrates this important, ground-breaking book, which remains as relevant as ever. In this ground-breaking and timeless book, Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson undertakes a compelling analysis of...

10th Anniversary Edition True leaders aren't made by business schools. They make themselves Getting a MBA degree has become difficult to justify not just because of the large price tag...

Our lives are saturated with news. But how does it affect us? And how should we read it? Today, the news occupies the same dominant position in our lives as...

Highly acclaimed writer and philosopher Alain de Botton turns his attention to interior design and architecture In The Architecture of Happiness, bestselling author Alain de Botton explores one of our...

Julie Otsuka tells the extraordinary, heartbreaking story of young Japanese women brought to San Francisco as mail-order brides in the 1940s After the First World War, a group of young...

A lively and compelling account of how the crusades really worked, and a revolutionary attempt to rethink the Middle Ages In this highly original and enjoyable book, Christopher Tyerman focuses...

Romance, luxury, and secrets abound in this thrilling new story collection that take readers deeper into the world of the #1 bestselling Inheritance Games series Inheritance Games series. There is...

A stylish, fashion-inspired edition of this classic tale, produced in partnership with the V&A This beautiful hardback edition is a special Puffin Classic created in partnership with the world-famous V...

All of Orwell's brilliant writing on England and Englishness collected in a single volume Much of George Orwell's best writing, brought together in this comprehensive collection, is concerned with England,...

An exhilarating collection of Orwell's writing on the Spanish Civil War The volume collects together Orwell's writings on his experience of the Spanish Civil War - the chaos at the...