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In May 1940, the small British Expeditionary Force was sent to help the Belgians and French hold back the German army. Ill-equipped and under-trained, they fought hard for three weeks,...

The Great Fire is the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction. More than twenty years after the classic The Transit of Venus , Shirley Hazzard returns to...

Exploring many of the most pertinent ethical and economic issues of our time, this book offers both new insights and innovative solutions. Including case studies of international companies and analysis...

In winter 1953-54, the French army in Vietnam challenged its elusive enemy, General Gap's Viet Minh, to pitched battle. Ten thousand French paras and legionnaires, with artillery and tanks, were...

Together, Cranach's paintings and Luther's powerful oratory created a force field that transformed Germany, Europe, and ultimately the Western world This compelling book retells and revises the story of the...

Unlike every other domestic animal, the cat evolved as a solitary animal, not a group-dweller. A dog in a household lives in a situation it has evolved to experience. A...

A widely revered collection from the Nobel prize-winning poet, publishing in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the...

Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death....

This book combines graceful design and beautiful photography to provide an elegant introduction to microscopic nature Explore the everyday miracle of the microscopic world With spectacular macro photography and microscope...

A spectacular illustrated journey through 4,000 years of weaponry, Weapon- A Visual History of Arms and Armour is the most comprehensive visual reference charting the history of arms and armour...

A complete self-study English language course for adults We may all speak the same language, but getting to grips with grammar is the ultimate challenge. You could be puzzled by...

This is the story of the Second World War as told for the first time by survivors of Germany's armed forces. Like old soldiers everywhere, they are fading away. But...

A "compact, engrossing narrative"* that vividly reimagines the events that led to the outbreak of the Civil War What separates historian Nelson D. Lankford's engaging examination of the causes of...

One the 21st June 2007 Alexandra Kavanagh left home, chatted to her neighbour, got onto the DART, arrived at Dalkey train station and disappeared ...Tom is distraught. His wife is...

Over 150 years after publication, still one of the most haunting and brutal indictments of the human costs of capitalism Written when Engels was only twenty-four, and inspired in particular...

First time in Modern Classics Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. Harry Houdini astonishes audiences with magical feats...

'This book ranks alongside PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA as one of the very few great contemporary novels about childhood' William Sutcliffe, Independent on Sunday 'Everything was going to be...

Contains 21 stories - all variations on the Icarus themes, they're about melting wax, sudden unscheduled descents and the natural inclanation of our gods, parents and guardians to look the...

Poet Jane Gray, whose husband has left her shortly before the birth of their second child, falls passionately in love with James, the husband of Lucy - Jane's cousin and...

'A delight for Murdoch enthusiasts' Guardian Something Special was previously unpublished except in a 1950s anthology and in Japan, and rediscovered after her death. It is the only short story...

It is a story full of incident: voyages to islands where forgotten Portugese forts lie covered in jungle, places where some have tried to shoot their way to paradise, and...

'Yes we were scared. It could be seen on the faces of the men. No food didn't help. We stopped to suck pebbles during the day as our tongues began...

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"Remarkable. . . . A deftly woven narrative saturated with violence, hardship, and triumph. Readers will be richly rewarded, for by the end of this deeply felt novel it is...

The Complete Idiot's GuideA (R) to Theories of the Universe takes readers on an exotic journey through the religious, philosophical, and scientific theories of the nature and origin of our...

Million-copy bestseller David Walliams' funniest book yet - a laugh-out-loud tale of the most blundering and lovable family in history Meet the Blunders: Bertie, Betsy, their children, Brutus and Bunny,...

Eliza, the clever, depressive aunt who has brought Dido up, and whose brilliant academic career has foundered due to the demands of unlooked-for motherhood, tries and fails to give Dido...

What has been the dish of kings, the subject of myths and the traveller of epic and mysterious journeys? The eel. Beginning life in the Sargasso Sea, the eel travels...

A vivid and compelling portrait of a man at odds with himself; and an extended family of friends and lovers trying to take its proper shape. Lawrence Frost has neither...

A composer, who finds success in his later years, surveys his grandchildren as they come to terms with the harsher facts of modern life. A young composer, Edward Pepper, is...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be given your own remote islands? Thirty years ago it happened to Adam Nicolson. Aged 21, Nicolson inherited the Shiants,...

One that began with him wanting to be a space engineer and ended with him creating content that has been seen and read by millions. His thoughts range from the...

A comprehensive work on Venice, which highlights the inseparable relationship between the historical, political, social and artistic events that have characterised its millenary history. A journey to discover the lagoon...

It is time to be brave and visible, to love and be loved - and time perhaps to become a hero as the stain of anti-Semitism spreads across Europe. In...

John Meredith was for decades the leading warrior in the fight to preserve and celebrate Australia's unique folk heritage. Between 1953 and 1994 he recorded from ordinary Australians thousands of...

It's 1933, and the political landscape of europe is darkening. Eric Campbell, the man who would be Australia's Fuhrer, is on a fascist tour of the Continent, meeting dictators over...

In 1932, the RMS Aquitania embodies all that is gracious and refined, in a world gripped by crisis and doubt. Returning home on the luxury liner after months abroad, Rowland...

Magazine entrepreneur Randall Lane had a prime seat at Wall Street's biggest greed fest. The Zeroes is a memoir of the excesses and bad behavior from an outsider who got...

A unique, seminal work about co-opted beliefs when European missionaries encountered Australian Aboriginals. The Lamb Enters the Dreaming traces the life of Nathanael Pepper of the Wotjobaluk people, who was...

Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is one of Australia's oldest, richest and proudest corporations. And its fortunes were based on what proved to be one of the worst industrial...

In a hushed, Italian town after the Second World War Elsa lives with her parents in the house where she was born. Twenty-seven and unmarried, she is of constant concern...

'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...