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One of the most interesting and important poets of the seventeenth century. Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one...

A brutal revenge story that is both a gripping police procedural and a chilling political thriller. FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WALLANDER MYSTERIES REVENGE CAN TAKE MORE THAN A LIFETIME...

Lyrical, heartbreaking and hopeful, the Peckham poet's debut collection exploring the lives of young Black boys, and the architecture that shapes them What is it like to grow up in...

Published for the centenary of his birth, a gathering of lucid, intensely lyrical poetry from one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent literary voices be courageous when reason fails you be...

The next book in a spellbinding new urban fantasy from USA Today bestselling author and TikTok sensation Piper CJ. The next book in a spellbinding new urban fantasy from USA...

A critical look at how Bill Gates uses his wealth and power through the Gates Foundation to advance his own agenda and erode democratic institutions in the process. You know...

THE EPIC AND SIZZLING ROMANTASY THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT . . . SOON TO BE YOUR NEXT OBSESSION! Perfect for fans of Powerless, Fourth Wing and Divine Rivals. THEY...

A detective and FBI agent join forces on a manhunt for a cold-blooded serial killer in this intense psychological thriller. From coastal California to upstate New York, a killer is...

Jack Morgan is battling to uncover a conspiracy that leads him all the way to Russia in the heart-stopping new thriller in the bestselling Private series An invitation from an...

'Superb. . . These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons. . . O'Hara was American fiction's greatest eavesdropper, recording the everyday...

A stunning stand-alone thriller from the world's bestselling thriller writer The Store doesn't just want your money - it wants your soul. The Store is history's most powerful retailer. It...

The lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this bestselling new novel from Tessa Hadley 'Unflinching, intelligent and fascinating' Marian Keyes The lives of...

An informal history of the English language in America by the inimitable Bill Bryson. 'Funny, wise, learned and compulsive' - GQ Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and...

Bill Bryson's hilarious return to live the American Dream. Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the...

Winner of the 2020 British Psychological Society Popular Science Prize and the 2018 Royal Society Science Book Prize. Up to the minute brain science from a world class scientist. Sarah-Jayne...

'I was prime minister for three years and three days. Three years and three days of resilience. Three years and three days of changing the nation. Three years and three...

One America's Favorite Books, PBS's The Great American Read Nobel Prize-winning author- This classic of 20th-century literature chronicles the spiritual evolution of a man living in India at the time...

We are living in an age overshadowed by war. We can't stop it, but we can survive it. Here are 10 rules for how. Everything you think you know about...

Roald Dahl's tales of trickery, deceit and cunning . . . How underhand could you be to get what you want? In these ten tales of dark and twisted trickery...

'I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact.' - Elon Musk South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and...

A provocative and inspiring work on overcoming the obstacles facing women on the path to leadership Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In is a massive cultural phenomenon and its title has become...

The untold story of the first nomadic empire and the making of China. 'Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks- he conjures up an ancient people in...

How Arif Naqvi Duped The Global Elite Arif Naqvi was a man with immeasurable dreams- to end world suffering, poverty and disease. His vision- capitalism for good; profit and progress....

Embrace your inner Picasso - wisdom and smart thinking from Da Vinci to Ai Weiwei Why do some people seem to find it easy to come up with fresh, brilliant...

Robin de Crespigny's The People Smuggler is the gripping, inspiring story of one man's escape from Saddam's Iraq to become 'the Oskar Schindler of Asia'. Robin de Crespigny's The People...

The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning vision of our future in space Human civilization is on the verge of spreading beyond Earth....

The leading book on the short, radically Protestant reign of Edward VI, reissued for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation Although the young Edward VI's death in 1553 led to...

The essential book for understanding the history of Britain's place in Europe, from the Middle Ages to the present day Britain has always had a tangled, complex, paradoxical role in...

'Fascinating, engaging, and practical . . . dispels the myth that our success can be divined by a simple number or average, whether a grade, a score in a standardized...

Everything we think, do and refrain from doing is determined by our brain. From religion to sexuality, it shapes our potential, our desires and our characters. Taking us through every...

An enjoyably revisionist biography and a warning from the past about our world today Niccol Machiavelli lived in a fiercely competitive world, one where brute wealth, brazen liars and ruthless...

A rich and unforgettable tragic-comic novel of sexual intrigue and political scheming in nineteenth-century Spain One of the greatest nineteenth-century Spanish novels, The House of Ulloa follows pure and pious...

Masterful versions of Ibsen's two great verse plays by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey Hill These two masterly and contrasting verse dramas by Ibsen made his reputation as...

Strange, macabre and utterly unsettling- the first great science fiction work of the twentieth century The Purple Cloud tells the grandly bleak story of Adam Jeffson- the first man to...

An indispensable addition to the canon of Burroughs's works, this series of short stories and sketches guides the reader through his literary evolution Interzone portrays the development of Burroughs's mature...

A man, dispirited by ageing, endeavours to steal a younger man's face; a doctor yearns for a virus that might eliminate his discomfort by turning everyone else into doubles of...

In one of the wittiest novels of them all, Nancy Mitford casts a finely gauged net to capture perfectly the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in...

A passionate expose that serves up the truth about the meat on our plate - and where it's come from 'I simply wanted to know - for myself and my...

Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish...

A new edition of Christina Rossetti's poetry This new selection of Rossetti's poems brings together works by one of the most significant nineteenth-century English poets. It includes an illuminating introduction,...

The complete collection of Donne's poems, including his famous Holy Sonnets, 'The Flea' and 'The Sun Rising' No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge...

'Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is a book to be settled into fully, tomorrow be damned. Funny, heart-hammering, wise.' The New York Times WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR...

A mesmerising collection of stories from the superb Richard Yates First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out...

2021 sees all of Alice Munro's backlist reissued in a new, modern look. These editions will appeal to a broad range of literary readers In these stories lives come into...

Before Rai Sarris, Cashin was different. He moved more quickly then, he was less thoughtful, less easily spooked. But there are consequences when you've come that close to dying. For...

Truth is a novel about a man, a family, a city. It is about violence, murder, love, corruption, honour and deceit. And it is about the search for truth. At...

He's never lost a case. But can he outwit a killer? An exciting stand-alone legal thriller from the world's bestselling thriller writer. Stafford Lee Penney is the best defence lawyer...

The New York Times #1 bestselling novel What if Rumpelstiltskin isn't the villain of the story? By the following winter solstice, the miller would become the father of a baby...